This white paper discusses how vendor neutral archiving (VNA) combined with cloud storage on the EMC Atmos platform can help healthcare organizations improve patient care and reduce IT costs. By breaking down PACS silos and providing secure access to medical images from any device, VNA and cloud storage reduce storage and archive costs while enabling images to be accessed at the point of care. A case study is presented of how one healthcare network leveraged this approach to improve medical imaging workflows.
White paper: Functional Requirements for Enterprise Clinical Data Management:...Carestream
As healthcare organizations plan for the future growth and integration of clinical
data into their IT ecosystems, it’s crucial to clearly define the functional requirements spanning the needs of users across the enterprise. This white paper provides an overview of the key functional requirements. To learn more visit carestream.com/clinical-collaboration
Whitepaper: Leveraging the Cloud to Enhance an Enterprise Imaging StrategyCarestream
What is the cloud's future in imaging?
Enterprise imaging strategies are front and center in healthcare IT these days. The increasing sophistication of imaging technology has resulted in substantial increases in imaging data. The upside of this increase is that clinicians have more imaging information available to aid in diagnosis and treatment. www.carestream.com/cloud
Imaging in the Cloud: A New Era for RadiologyCarestream
A look at how cloud computing is helping the medical imaging industry. The cloud is changing old mindsets, and allowing technologies, such as a vendor-neutral archive (VNA), to make health facilities more efficient and provide higher quality care.
I. What can be expected with Meaningful Use
II. Two possible workflows for compliance
III. Three components of Meaningful Use data
IV. What does Meaningful Use mean for radiology?
V. How CARESTREAM RIS can help
VI. Meaningful Use compliance with RIS
Additional Meaningful Use resources:
A. Meaningful Use Podcast Series
i. Keith Dreyer, DO, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital
ii. Steven Fischer, CIO, Center for Diagnostic Imaging
B. Webinar
i. Keith Dreyer, DO, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital
ii. Marjorie Calvetti, Administrative Director, Radiology, Memorial Medical Center
C. Whitepaper: Customizable CARESTREAM RIS Enables US Facilities to Meet Meaningful Use Requirements
For more about Carestream RIS, visit http://www.carestream.com/ris
Carestream’s Vue Motion provides on-demand access to patient images throughout and beyond the healthcare enterprise and it is easily adapted to work with healthcare IT systems already installed. http://www.carestream.com/motion.
For more information, please visit us at: http://www.carestream.com/vue
A Real-World Solution for Patient-Centric WorkflowCarestream
Vendor Neutral Archives can reduce costs and demands upon system administration while resolving enterprise clinical workflow challenges.
For more information, please visit: http://www.carestream.com/vna
White paper: Functional Requirements for Enterprise Clinical Data Management:...Carestream
As healthcare organizations plan for the future growth and integration of clinical
data into their IT ecosystems, it’s crucial to clearly define the functional requirements spanning the needs of users across the enterprise. This white paper provides an overview of the key functional requirements. To learn more visit carestream.com/clinical-collaboration
Whitepaper: Leveraging the Cloud to Enhance an Enterprise Imaging StrategyCarestream
What is the cloud's future in imaging?
Enterprise imaging strategies are front and center in healthcare IT these days. The increasing sophistication of imaging technology has resulted in substantial increases in imaging data. The upside of this increase is that clinicians have more imaging information available to aid in diagnosis and treatment. www.carestream.com/cloud
Imaging in the Cloud: A New Era for RadiologyCarestream
A look at how cloud computing is helping the medical imaging industry. The cloud is changing old mindsets, and allowing technologies, such as a vendor-neutral archive (VNA), to make health facilities more efficient and provide higher quality care.
I. What can be expected with Meaningful Use
II. Two possible workflows for compliance
III. Three components of Meaningful Use data
IV. What does Meaningful Use mean for radiology?
V. How CARESTREAM RIS can help
VI. Meaningful Use compliance with RIS
Additional Meaningful Use resources:
A. Meaningful Use Podcast Series
i. Keith Dreyer, DO, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital
ii. Steven Fischer, CIO, Center for Diagnostic Imaging
B. Webinar
i. Keith Dreyer, DO, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital
ii. Marjorie Calvetti, Administrative Director, Radiology, Memorial Medical Center
C. Whitepaper: Customizable CARESTREAM RIS Enables US Facilities to Meet Meaningful Use Requirements
For more about Carestream RIS, visit http://www.carestream.com/ris
Carestream’s Vue Motion provides on-demand access to patient images throughout and beyond the healthcare enterprise and it is easily adapted to work with healthcare IT systems already installed. http://www.carestream.com/motion.
For more information, please visit us at: http://www.carestream.com/vue
A Real-World Solution for Patient-Centric WorkflowCarestream
Vendor Neutral Archives can reduce costs and demands upon system administration while resolving enterprise clinical workflow challenges.
For more information, please visit: http://www.carestream.com/vna
White paper examines the unstructured data management challenges healthcare organizations face and how the Hitachi Data Systems solution employs metadata to address the data storm.
Presented at UKRC 2013, this presentation discusses healthcare needs, what vendor neutral archives are, and how to choose the right VNA supplier.
For more information on Carestream's Vue for VNA, visit http://carestream.com/vna
To improve value and minimize patient exposure to ionizing
radiation, healthcare providers’ use of medical imaging must
be prudent and appropriate. The cornerstone of value-based
imaging is technology that provides broad access to patient
reports and images, enhancing communications among
physicians and with the patient while protecting patient data.
This is the role of the enterprise viewer. www.carestream.com/motion
Cloud eHealth in Medical Imaging & RadiologyCarestream
Cloud computing in medical imaging, with real life examples. Presentation given by Pierre Yves Nectoux, at the World of Health IT congress, in Barcelona Spain, on 15 March 2010. Presentation includes two case studies, as well as a general implementation example.
For more on the cloud, visit http://www.carestream.com/cloud
Frost & Sullivan 2016 Innovation Award Research Summary for New Product Innov...Carestream
Frost and Sullivan’s 10-step process for evaluating candidates for the award.
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Carestream Health its 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation Leadership for innovation focused on value-based imaging that solves real-life problems and addresses unmet customer needs. This document summarizes the research and processes used by F&S for naming the winner.
Learn more about Carestream Health's medical imaging products at http://www.carestream.com/medical
#Innovation
#Aim2innovate
#winner
Prioritizing Access in Your VNA StrategyCarestream
http://www.vue-vna.com
Like a brain, VNA is an organizing force for your data. However, healthcare providers that purchase a vendor neutral archive merely to simplify IT hardware or consolidate radiology images, are not realizing VNA’s full potential. Early VNA adopters cite image sharing most important benefit. Learn how Carestream's VNA fuels enterprise image sharing for physicians and patients.
Whitepaper : The Bridge From PACS to VNA: Scale Out Storage EMC
This whitepaper discusses how a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) for image archive and management requires a phased storage approach due to the capital and operational expenditures involved. The EMC Isilon scale-out approach provides a simple, predictable, and manageable path from PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) to VNA.
Financial Implications for Integrating Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System...Carestream
Carestream Health commissioned a working group of surgeons and administrators from four leading orthopedic practices to
evaluate the clinical application and economic impact of the OnSight 3D Extremity System. This paper outlines the results of that working group’s findings, including specific economic models for practices of various sizes and throughputs.
Clinical Data Collaboration Across the EnterpriseCarestream
In addition to the CARESTREAM Vue PACS installed in 2003, the hospital has implemented full electronic ADT and paperless Ancillaries, EMR Adoption, full electronic medication CPOE and a Structured and Document Clinical Repository (connected to regional EHR).
Despite the completeness of this IT infrastructure, the hospital was still searching for an optimal solution for an integrated clinical image repository and distribution system.
White paper explores Intel’s latest SSD technology, new Carestream solutions, the impact for PACS, and a look at the future of medical imaging data, access, storage and analysis.
What in the world is a digital hospital? Global trends in digital healthcare ...MaRS Discovery District
Public and private healthcare organizations around the world are leveraging data, mobile and social technologies to reshape their patient relationships and build operating dexterity to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Attendees will learn how these organizations are thinking about opportunities to use the tools of the digital revolution to transform healthcare.
3 Ways Imaging Platforms Empower Your Enterprise - Part 2: InteroperabilityMach7 Technologies
This 3 Part Executive Brief explores key reasons image- empowering the enterprise has become one of the most significant “frontiers” to address in the healthcare eco-system. Image Sharing, IT system interoperability, and Data Analytics
are three critical business enablers that healthcare C-Suites
are discussing. Learn more at http://www.mach7t.com/
Innovation in Enterprise Imaging: Clinical Context is What's NextTodd Winey
Clinicians have one word for what they want from your next generation enterprise imaging solutions. Context. A recent study in the Journal of Digital Imaging suggests that nearly 60% of radiology orders have no mention of important chronic conditions, calling it “an alarming lack of communication” that “may negatively impact interpretation quality.” Imaging orders such as “chest pain” or “lower abdominal pain,” for example, are essentially context free, giving clinicians little information to work with. Access to a complete clinical history behind those orders can help clinicians provide richer input for more accurate diagnoses and more effective care plans, along with results of the imaging study.
The healthcare industry has traditionally been one of the slowest fields to adopt new technologies. This has to do with the fears around security and the privacy of patient data. Healthcare companies have always preferred to keep data behind a secure firewall or even onsite as opposed to maintaining it on something as intangible as the cloud. Kairos tells you how the disruption happened in Healthcare
Evaluating Enterprise Clinical Data-Management Systems at RSNA 2016Carestream
What are the essential capabilities to look for in an enterprise imaging system? It's complicated, but Carestream can help. Download and complete this checklist to rate each system you're considering. Then bring it to the Carestream booth in the South Hall at RSNA2016. We'll have a conversation over a fresh cup of coffee.
White paper examines the unstructured data management challenges healthcare organizations face and how the Hitachi Data Systems solution employs metadata to address the data storm.
Presented at UKRC 2013, this presentation discusses healthcare needs, what vendor neutral archives are, and how to choose the right VNA supplier.
For more information on Carestream's Vue for VNA, visit http://carestream.com/vna
To improve value and minimize patient exposure to ionizing
radiation, healthcare providers’ use of medical imaging must
be prudent and appropriate. The cornerstone of value-based
imaging is technology that provides broad access to patient
reports and images, enhancing communications among
physicians and with the patient while protecting patient data.
This is the role of the enterprise viewer. www.carestream.com/motion
Cloud eHealth in Medical Imaging & RadiologyCarestream
Cloud computing in medical imaging, with real life examples. Presentation given by Pierre Yves Nectoux, at the World of Health IT congress, in Barcelona Spain, on 15 March 2010. Presentation includes two case studies, as well as a general implementation example.
For more on the cloud, visit http://www.carestream.com/cloud
Frost & Sullivan 2016 Innovation Award Research Summary for New Product Innov...Carestream
Frost and Sullivan’s 10-step process for evaluating candidates for the award.
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Carestream Health its 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation Leadership for innovation focused on value-based imaging that solves real-life problems and addresses unmet customer needs. This document summarizes the research and processes used by F&S for naming the winner.
Learn more about Carestream Health's medical imaging products at http://www.carestream.com/medical
#Innovation
#Aim2innovate
#winner
Prioritizing Access in Your VNA StrategyCarestream
http://www.vue-vna.com
Like a brain, VNA is an organizing force for your data. However, healthcare providers that purchase a vendor neutral archive merely to simplify IT hardware or consolidate radiology images, are not realizing VNA’s full potential. Early VNA adopters cite image sharing most important benefit. Learn how Carestream's VNA fuels enterprise image sharing for physicians and patients.
Whitepaper : The Bridge From PACS to VNA: Scale Out Storage EMC
This whitepaper discusses how a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) for image archive and management requires a phased storage approach due to the capital and operational expenditures involved. The EMC Isilon scale-out approach provides a simple, predictable, and manageable path from PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) to VNA.
Financial Implications for Integrating Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System...Carestream
Carestream Health commissioned a working group of surgeons and administrators from four leading orthopedic practices to
evaluate the clinical application and economic impact of the OnSight 3D Extremity System. This paper outlines the results of that working group’s findings, including specific economic models for practices of various sizes and throughputs.
Clinical Data Collaboration Across the EnterpriseCarestream
In addition to the CARESTREAM Vue PACS installed in 2003, the hospital has implemented full electronic ADT and paperless Ancillaries, EMR Adoption, full electronic medication CPOE and a Structured and Document Clinical Repository (connected to regional EHR).
Despite the completeness of this IT infrastructure, the hospital was still searching for an optimal solution for an integrated clinical image repository and distribution system.
White paper explores Intel’s latest SSD technology, new Carestream solutions, the impact for PACS, and a look at the future of medical imaging data, access, storage and analysis.
What in the world is a digital hospital? Global trends in digital healthcare ...MaRS Discovery District
Public and private healthcare organizations around the world are leveraging data, mobile and social technologies to reshape their patient relationships and build operating dexterity to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Attendees will learn how these organizations are thinking about opportunities to use the tools of the digital revolution to transform healthcare.
3 Ways Imaging Platforms Empower Your Enterprise - Part 2: InteroperabilityMach7 Technologies
This 3 Part Executive Brief explores key reasons image- empowering the enterprise has become one of the most significant “frontiers” to address in the healthcare eco-system. Image Sharing, IT system interoperability, and Data Analytics
are three critical business enablers that healthcare C-Suites
are discussing. Learn more at http://www.mach7t.com/
Innovation in Enterprise Imaging: Clinical Context is What's NextTodd Winey
Clinicians have one word for what they want from your next generation enterprise imaging solutions. Context. A recent study in the Journal of Digital Imaging suggests that nearly 60% of radiology orders have no mention of important chronic conditions, calling it “an alarming lack of communication” that “may negatively impact interpretation quality.” Imaging orders such as “chest pain” or “lower abdominal pain,” for example, are essentially context free, giving clinicians little information to work with. Access to a complete clinical history behind those orders can help clinicians provide richer input for more accurate diagnoses and more effective care plans, along with results of the imaging study.
The healthcare industry has traditionally been one of the slowest fields to adopt new technologies. This has to do with the fears around security and the privacy of patient data. Healthcare companies have always preferred to keep data behind a secure firewall or even onsite as opposed to maintaining it on something as intangible as the cloud. Kairos tells you how the disruption happened in Healthcare
Evaluating Enterprise Clinical Data-Management Systems at RSNA 2016Carestream
What are the essential capabilities to look for in an enterprise imaging system? It's complicated, but Carestream can help. Download and complete this checklist to rate each system you're considering. Then bring it to the Carestream booth in the South Hall at RSNA2016. We'll have a conversation over a fresh cup of coffee.
Pivotal: Virtualize Big Data to Make the Elephant DanceEMC
Big Data and virtualization are two of the hottest trends in the industry today, yet the full potential for bringing the two together has not been fully realized. In this session, learn how virtualization brings the advantages of greater elasticity, stronger isolation for multi-tenancy, and a click HA protection to Hadoop, while maintaining the comparable performance to Hadoop on physical machines.
Objective 1: Understand the benefits of virtualizing Hadoop.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Understand how to get started with Pivotal HD Hadoop .
Objective 3: Understand where to find more information.
Pivotal: Hadoop for Powerful Processing of Unstructured Data for Valuable Ins...EMC
Pivotal has setup and operationalized 1000 node Hadoop cluster called the Analytics Workbench. It takes special setup and skills to manage such a large deployment. This session shares how we set it up and how you will manage it.
Objective 1: Understand what it takes to operationalize a 1000-nodeHadoop cluster.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Understand how to set up and manage the day to day challenges of a large Hadoop deployments.
Objective 3: Have a view to the tools that are necessary to solve the challenges of managing the large Hadoop cluster.
This is the Swipp Plus Quick Start guide. This user guide outlines the steps needed to create a Swipp Plus account, create Swipp widgets and manage your control panel and dashboard. It also shows how to integrate Swipp widgets into Wordpress, Blogger and other common blog and content management systems.
This white paper introduces the EMC Isilon scale-out data lake as the key enabler to store, manage, and protect unstructured data for traditional and emerging workloads.
TMS-Teacher Training Management System, is created by District Institute of Education and Training, Lucknow, to facilitate In-Service Teacher Training, making it meaningful and more outcome oriented.
Address the multidepartmental digital imaging conundrum with enterprise level...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Content Repository allows organizations to enjoy the benefits of a vendor neutral archive while considering the long-term needs of the enterprise.
Significant Advantages of Cloud Computing.pdfShelly Megan
Cloud computing in healthcare offers numerous benefits like easy collaboration, seamless interoperability, new avenues of Big data implementation, data analytics, medical research, reduced data storage, and operational costs, elevated patient experience, enhanced scalability, and improved data security.
Vendor Neutral Archives can reduce costs and demands upon system administration while enhancing patient care.
For more information, please visit us at:http://www.carestream.com/vue-vendor-neutral-archiving.html
5 Things to Know About the Clinical Analytics Data Management Challenge - Ext...Michael Dykstra
5 Things to Know About the Clinical Analytics Data Management Challenge - Extracting Real Benefit From Your EHR Data
The EHR revolution has created immense promise for improved patient outcomes and reduced costs but most healthcare organizations are struggling to experience significant benefits. The power of Applied Clinical Analytics lies in a simple but powerful concept: the importance of focusing on the accuracy and availability of the underlying data, first and foremost.
Delivering high quality patient care, ensuring business resiliency, and protecting reputation: these form the pillars of a high-performing healthcare enterprise. The question then becomes: how firm is the technology foundation underneath these pillars? Here are the four critical risks you should be aware of. For more info, visit our site: http://ow.ly/FQjW301iD1A
This is a re-boot of a presentation originally given on the potential role of cloud infrastructure in healthcare delivery from eHealth Canada 2012.
Key concepts are the drivers of change in healthcare, how hospitals can protect themselves when using of cloud, the potential use of enterprise content management as part of healthcare delivery and the current models that we are seeing in Canada and the US.
Cloud computing in healthcare industry.pdfMobibizIndia1
Electronic Medical Records or EMR is a mandate that leverages businesses to welcome cloud-based solutions for securing and storing a high volume of patient data. The good part is that cloud solutions cannot don't need to replace the existing data to incorporate new data into the cell.
Cloud-based PACS - A Level Playing Field for Users of Medical Imaging Informa...QSS Technosoft Inc.
At QSS Technosoft Inc., we provide the highest quality of service such as reactjs development services and expertise when it comes to helping our customers integrate their new systems with ease. Our experienced team of professionals are well-versed in all aspects of Cloud-based PACS system integration, and we work closely with our customers to ensure that their systems are set up for maximum efficiency.
In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the use of Data Monitoring
Committees (DMC) and Adaptive Designs (AD) in clinical trials. While the monitoring of safety
data by a formal committee is not required for all clinical trials, it has become the norm to have
a formal DMC conduct periodic safety reviews for any controlled trial that evaluates treatments
intended to prolong life or reduce risk of major adverse health outcomes, or for trials that
compare rates of mortality or major morbidity. Confirmatory, pivotal, and adaptive design trials
have more complex operational issues requiring an external and independent DMC. The DMC
may have access to unblinded interim data, be required to make expert recommendations
about how the trial should continue, and then ensure that planned adaptations are
implemented as outlined in the protocol without involving the sponsor or exposing it to
unblinded data or results.
This added complexity creates a challenge and a question: how can the DMC, statisticians, and
sponsor effectively communicate, share blinded and unblinded data, perform analyses, and
implement adaptations without introducing operational bias or compromising the integrity of
the trial? One solution is to utilize a sophisticated computer system that can provide the
security and necessary firewalls to ensure that interim data is only accessible to those it is
intended for, that the rules and processes outlined in the protocol and DMC charter are
enforced, and that communication between the DMC and sponsor is effectively facilitated while
protecting the integrity of the trial and preventing the introduction of operational bias.
The system must also provide an audit trail that tracks “who saw what and when” providing
evidence to regulatory authorities that the protocol was strictly followed with a minimal
possibility of bias. This white paper describes the computer system, ACES, which Cytel has built,
that makes all of this possible. ACES (Access Control Execution System) has been purpose-built
to address the operational complexities inherent in adaptive design and pivotal clinical trials.
Healthcare information management is complex. Not only does it require a system designed specifically for medically relevant information, you also need a system that manages billing and the normal every-business kind of HR, vendor, etc records that confound organizations of all kinds.
In this whitepaper we go through how Content Services (nee ECM) can be used as the connective tissue between your clinical systems and administrative use cases.
In light of Cloud Computing System CDA Generation and Integration for Health ...IJAEMSJORNAL
Theoretical Successful sending of Electronic Health Record enhances tolerant security and nature of care, however it has the essential of interoperability between Health Information Exchange at various doctor's facilities. The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) created by HL7 is a center record standard to guarantee such interoperability, and engendering of this archive configuration is basic for interoperability. Lamentably, clinics are hesitant to receive interoperable HIS because of its organization fetched with the exception of in a modest bunch nations. An issue emerges notwithstanding when more healing facilities begin utilizing the CDA archive arrange on the grounds that the information scattered in various reports are difficult to oversee. In this paper, we portray our CDA report era and incorporation Open API benefit in light of distributed computing, through which doctor's facilities are empowered to advantageously create CDA archives without purchasing restrictive programming. Our CDA archive combination framework incorporates various CDA records per tolerant into a solitary CDA report and doctors and patients can peruse the clinical information in sequential request. Our arrangement of CDA report era and joining depends on distributed computing and the administration is offered in Open API. Engineers utilizing distinctive stages along these lines can utilize our framework to improve interoperability.
Optimizing patient care with Citrix XenApp & XenDestopCitrix
Centrally manage EHR apps in the datacenter, enabling easier app updates, simpler compliance and instant access by clinicians using any device.
Learn more: http://www.citrix.com/health
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INDUSTRY-LEADING TECHNOLOGY FOR LONG TERM RETENTION OF BACKUPS IN THE CLOUDEMC
CloudBoost is a cloud-enabling solution from EMC
Facilitates secure, automatic, efficient data transfer to private and public clouds for Long-Term Retention (LTR) of backups. Seamlessly extends existing data protection solutions to elastic, resilient, scale-out cloud storage
Transforming Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop and EMC XtremIOEMC
With EMC XtremIO all-flash array, improve
1) your competitive agility with real-time analytics & development
2) your infrastructure agility with elastic provisioning for performance & capacity
3) your TCO with 50% lower capex and opex and double the storage lifecycle.
• Citrix & EMC XtremIO: Better Together
• XtremIO Design Fundamentals for VDI
• Citrix XenDesktop & XtremIO
-- Image Management & Storage
-- Demonstrations
-- XtremIO XenDesktop Integration
EMC FORUM RESEARCH GLOBAL RESULTS - 10,451 RESPONSES ACROSS 33 COUNTRIES EMC
Explore findings from the EMC Forum IT Study and learn how cloud computing, social, mobile, and big data megatrends are shaping IT as a business driver globally.
Reference architecture with MIRANTIS OPENSTACK PLATFORM.The changes that are going on in IT with disruptions from technology, business and culture and so IT to solve the issues has to change from moving from traditional models to broker provider model.
Force Cyber Criminals to Shop Elsewhere
Learn the value of having an Identity Management and Governance solution and how retailers today are benefiting by strengthening their defenses and bolstering their Identity Management capabilities.
Container-based technology has experienced a recent revival and is becoming adopted at an explosive rate. For those that are new to the conversation, containers offer a way to virtualize an operating system. This virtualization isolates processes, providing limited visibility and resource utilization to each, such that the processes appear to be running on separate machines. In short, allowing more applications to run on a single machine. Here is a brief timeline of key moments in container history.
This white paper provides an overview of EMC's data protection solutions for the data lake - an active repository to manage varied and complex Big Data workloads
This infographic highlights key stats and messages from the analyst report from J.Gold Associates that addresses the growing economic impact of mobile cybercrime and fraud.
This white paper describes how an intelligence-driven governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) model can create an efficient, collaborative enterprise GRC strategy across IT, Finance, Operations, and Legal areas.
The Trust Paradox: Access Management and Trust in an Insecure AgeEMC
This white paper discusses the results of a CIO UK survey on a“Trust Paradox,” defined as employees and business partners being both the weakest link in an organization’s security as well as trusted agents in achieving the company’s goals.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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Improve Patient Care and Reduce IT Costs with Vendor Neutral Archiving and Cloud Storage
1. White Paper
IMPROVE PATIENT CARE AND REDUCE IT COSTS
WITH VENDOR NEUTRAL ARCHIVING AND CLOUD
STORAGE
George Hamilton, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud
Infrastructure Group
Abstract
The following paper opens with the evolution and challenges of medical
image archiving. It continues by illustrating how Vendor Neutral Archive
combined Atmos cloud storage enable healthcare organizations to break
down PACS silos to reduce storage and archive costs, and provide secure,
anywhere access to medical images on any device at the point of care.
H10733.1 July 2012
3. Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 4
The Evolution and Challenge of Medical Image Archiving .......................................... 5
PACs Proliferation............................................................................................................... 5
From Files to Objects: The Medical Image Archive ............................................................... 6
The Challenge of Archiving Images on File-based Storage............................................... 7
Object Storage: A Step Forward for Medical Image Archiving .......................................... 9
The Value of a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) .......................................................... 10
EMC Atmos Cloud Storage Platform : The Right Fit for VNA .................................... 11
Cloud Storage Architecture ............................................................................................... 11
Metadata-driven automated policies ................................................................................ 12
Multi-tenancy for secure shared resources ....................................................................... 13
Instant access from any device ......................................................................................... 13
Federate to private or public clouds.................................................................................. 13
The Synergy of Vendor Neutral Archive and EMC Atmos Cloud Storage Platform....... 14
Financial Benefits ............................................................................................................. 14
Operational Benefits ........................................................................................................ 15
Clinical Benefits ...................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Case Study: Kettering Health Network Improves Medical Imaging Flow .................... 16
Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 16
Medical Image Archiving and Cloud Storage 3
4. Introduction
Who among us hasn’t been “in the tube” for an MRI or CT scan or in a radiology lab or
dentist chair for an x-ray? There are over 800 million medical imaging procedures
performed worldwide every year. That includes over 325 radiology procedures, over
60 million CT scans and nearly 30 million MRIs performed in the United States alone.
The critical role of medical images for rapid diagnoses, error reduction and providing
efficient, quality patient care is indisputable. Also indisputable is the need to
securely and cost-effectively store this valuable data and make it accessible in real
time at the point of care – wherever the point of care may be.
The explosive growth in the size and volume of medical images has exceeded even
the most well-considered capacity plans. The scope of data growth, particularly image
data, taxes even the most efficient IT departments. But storage capacity is not a new
problem. Storage administrators are very experienced at provisioning storage and raw
capacity. So, what makes the growth in medical image data a unique and more urgent
issue? Simply put, it’s the scope of image data growth and the value of that data for
improving patient outcomes and care delivery.
Healthcare IT leaders find themselves at the center of an IT transformation. In addition
to their existing responsibilities for cost reduction, data security and compliance, they
have new responsibility for pioneering ways in which Big Data can transform
healthcare delivery and pave the way for true, personalized medicine. Healthcare
delivery and payment reform, compliance mandates, and new requirements for
collaboration, data sharing, and mobility are converging to create a perfect storm that
is changing the healthcare landscape. To adapt and compete, healthcare
organizations of all sizes and shapes need a new approach to medical image
archiving that efficiently stores and protects Big Data and makes it instantly
accessible from any device anywhere in the world.
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5. The Evolution and Challenge of Medical Image Archiving
PACS Proliferation
The emergence of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS)
transformed diagnostic imaging. Healthcare organizations were able to minimize film
use and its associated development costs, eliminate processing chemicals and their
disposal costs, and increase the speed of image capture and access. Each radiology
department was also able to store all their image data in a secure, HIPAA-compliant
database. Over time, however, the size and volume of image studies revealed the
limitations of departmental PACS.
According to Enterprise Strategy Group, healthcare data storage will have grown 35%
annually between 2010 and 2015. The largest increase being in medical imaging and
electronic medical/healthcare records (EMR/EHR).
Figure 1: The Explosive Growth of Healthcare Data
Source: ESG Research Report 2011 – North American Health Care Provider Market Size and Forecast
Radiology, cardiology and other departments have implemented departmental PACS
as the volume and value of diagnostic imaging has grown. In addition, the Health
Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has served as
additional incentive to adopt PACS. The result is a proliferation of departmental PACS
that have created a host of new challenges:
• Higher IT infrastructure and operational costs. The sprawl of heterogeneous
PACS has resulted in IT infrastructure sprawl. IT departments need to manage
Medical Image Archiving and Cloud Storage 5
6. more servers, more client interfaces and more storage systems. And all that
data needs to be secured and backed up. This necessitates complex backup
infrastructure and more management tasks. And if a department wants to
migrate to a new PACS, it often means buying all new server and storage
hardware and software.
• Fewer budget resources for new initiatives. The higher operational costs,
which can be 80% of the budget, take away resources that can be used for
new, strategic technology investments that can directly benefit hospital
operations, workflows and the patient experience.
• Proprietary data. Image data is tied tightly to the PACS platform. That
proprietary nature of departmental PACS makes it very difficult to share image
data across departments and modalities. Healthcare IT managers find
themselves in a perpetual state of migration as departments upgrade or
replace PACS.
• Difficulty meeting standards for “Meaningful Use”. Department-specific PACS
often have poor integration with EHR/EMR. Imaging will be included in the
2014 proposed rule for EHR certification requirements under Meaningful Use
criteria Stage 2. Proposals are evolving but providers could forfeit $44,000
incentive payments if they do not make 40% of all imaging results and
information accessible via certified EHR systems. In addition, Meaningful Use
criteria stage 3, set to begin in 2015 or shortly after, will have new
requirements for information exchange with public health agencies as well as
new criteria for demonstrating improved patient outcomes.
• Poor storage scalability. Even in larger healthcare organizations that centrally
manage storage resources, image data growth exceeds their ability to scale
their predominantly file-based storage infrastructure that supports
departmental PACS.
• Complex workflows. When data is tied to a particular PACS or modality,
healthcare professionals need to view images on multiple viewers or multiple
applications. More efficient processes mean less time interacting with
equipment and IT systems, fewer errors, and more time spent with patients.
To get the challenges of PACS proliferation under control, many organizations have
implemented a centralized image archive in their enterprise data center to offload
image data from departmental PACS. However, there are different approaches for
architecting a centralized image archive. The unique nature of medical image
archiving makes it imperative to choose wisely.
From Files to Objects: The Medical Image Archive
Figure 2 illustrates how backup and archiving have evolved and how they will
continue to evolve over the next several years. Archiving used to be a necessity (by
law or other compliance mandates) and a method for moving older, seldom-used data
to cheap storage. Today, the enterprise archive is a critical business asset. Specific to
healthcare, the image archive has become indispensable as an information asset and
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7. critical to accurate diagnoses and error reduction. Archived image data needs to be
stored securely and in compliance with industry regulations, but also accessible on-
demand. Increasingly, healthcare organizations have turned to object, content-
addressable storage platforms to achieve these goals.
Figure 2: The Evolution of Archiving
The Challenge of Archiving Images on Traditional File-based Storage
Many organizations, not just healthcare organizations, have relied on file-based storage for
disk-based archiving. But archiving medical image data has exposed the limitations of
traditional file systems for archiving large volumes of unstructured content such as medical
images.
Figure 3 is a simplified illustration of a typical enterprise storage architecture utilizing two sites
for redundancy. In this typical scenario, IT and storage administrators are heavily involved in
provisioning storage resources for an application. For every request for storage, such as in the
event of a new PACS, storage administrators need to find adequate capacity, create a drive
letter, provision a file system, provision RAID and LUN and present that back to the application.
Every single request needs to go through this process and the result is every storage resource
has a direct, 1:1 relationship with its application. Consequently, every new application results
in the creation of a new storage silo.
Figure 3: Traditional File-based Archiving
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8. To further complicate matters, storage administrators also need to provision and manage
replication and backup systems and processes. Typically, this involves the use of snapshots.
The file system takes rotating snapshots of the data to a local disk throughout the day and the
data is backed up daily. The applications and data are also fully replicated to a redundant,
secondary site. In smaller environments with a single data center and 10s of TBs of data, IT can
manage effectively. Once the environment extends to multiple sites and 100’s of TBs,
managing multiple replication, backup and archiving schemes gets complicated and exposes
the following problems:.
• Higher storage and operational costs. The complexity inherent in this
approach increases operational costs. Traditional file systems are limited to
16 terabytes (TB), meaning IT needs to provision more file systems and more
hardware and software to meet data growth. The additional hardware and
software needed to support the environment also require more data center
floor space and add to power and cooling costs. Lastly, image data is still
tightly tied to the PACS and underlying storage hardware, which makes it very
costly to migrate data when upgrading or replacing PACS.
• Inefficient scale. Because of the complexity and manual work, it’s very difficult to scale a
traditional Network Attached Storage (NAS) environment. Every new application requires
a repeat of the storage provisioning tasks listed previously.
• Poor resource utilization and over-provisioning. The fully redundant sites means the
best outcome is 50% utilization. In truth, utilization is much lower. For example, since
storage provisioning with traditional NAS is such an onerous task, a department will
request 2 TB of storage capacity for a new application, even if they only need 1 TB. And
the storage administrators, also aware of how difficult it is to provision storage, will
provision 3 to 4 TB to avoid having to provision more capacity sooner than anticipated.
The result is 3 to 4 TB of storage dedicated to an application that only needs 1TB.
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9. • Increased risk. The use of snapshots is commonplace, but can introduce risk in the case
of medical images. If a file system is corrupted, rotating snapshots can result in
overwritten or lost data. The amount of data that could be lost is significant. The average
image size is 100 megabytes and there are approximately 3000 image studies per GB. If
3 TBs are lost, that can impact about 30,000 patient records. Imagine having to rescan
30,000 patients! Even if the data is recoverable from backup the downtime can have
significant clinical impact. Inopportune data unavailability could mean rescheduling a
procedure or an additional night in a hospital bed.
Object Storage: A Step Forward for Medical Image Archiving
The rapid growth of unstructured data like images and the complexity and scalability concerns
of traditional file systems led many healthcare organizations to adopt a fundamentally different
approach for medical image archiving. Content addressed storage (CAS) was pioneered by EMC
with the launch of EMC Centera in 2002 as a storage platform more suited for storing and
retrieving unstructured content, or, objects. CAS replaces the hierarchical addressing scheme
of file systems with a flat addressing scheme. Data and its associated metadata are stored as
objects. This fundamentally different architecture has had a profound effect on archiving in
general, and on medical image archiving in particular.
Figure 4: CAS and Object-based Archiving with EMC Centera
PACS PACS MRI CT
Rad Card Lab lab
CA
CA
Objects have metadata which is used to store, identify, locate, secure, and authenticate data.
And every object has a unique digital fingerprint called a content address (CA). Applications
don’t have to access the storage system to access data. The application only needs the address
of the object. Regardless of where the object physically resides, the storage system can retrieve
the data. This improves application and storage performance and enables multiple applications
to use the same archive.
The bottom line is that object storage systems such as Centera, due to the nature of object
storage and a flat addressing scheme can scale much more easily with much easier
management and administration. Content authenticity is guaranteed and stored objects can be
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10. accessed by applications via the CAS API. This removes the tight coupling of applications,
operating systems and file systems that tie data tightly to applications and make it challenging
to scale. As evidence of this success of CAS, EMC Centera accounts for approximately 53%
market share of storage systems used for medical image archiving.
There is a great deal of value in investing in CAS and modern storage infrastructure. For many,
however, these investments alone will not address the long-term strategic challenges posed by
the future of healthcare IT, new healthcare regulatory initiatives, and the unending growth of
image data.
Object-based storage, Centera in particular, has transformed archiving over the last decade.
Centera excels at medical image archiving and compliance but the growth in data and the
number of PACS continues unabated. Healthcare organizations add more imaging centers to
keep pace with demand and consolidation through merger and acquisition results in larger
hospital networks with dozens of dispersed departmental PACS. This growth creates new
challenges that CAS alone does not fix. Faced with the need to consolidate and centrally
manage a growing infrastructure, IT leaders look to their current suppliers; often these are
traditional NAS vendors, whose systems support departmental PACS.
Having had success with a CAS platform, however, it does not make sense to go back to file-
based storage for medical image archiving. Most vendors’ NAS offerings still have the same
limitations today they had years ago that prompted so many healthcare organizations to adopt
object-based archiving in the first place. In addition, many PACS communicate with storage via
the CAS API. Given these factors, CAS and object-based storage is still the right choice.
However, healthcare organizations have new needs and new scalability requirements that
necessitate a change. The good news is that there is a choice that preserves and builds on the
advantages of CAS and object-based storage. Healthcare organizations are increasingly turning
to Vendor Neutral Archive and cloud storage.
The Value of a Vendor Neutral Archive
A Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), as the name implies, is a vendor-neutral and
standards-based repository of medical images. A VNA enables a healthcare
organization to consolidate multiple image archives into one standard DICOM image
archive that can serve any PACS. The primary value of a VNA is that DICOM image data
is no longer in a proprietary format tied to a particular PACS. IT can consolidate PACS
image silos and centrally manage image data. There are distinct advantages to a VNA:
• Image sharing and collaboration. A VNA can ingest DICOM data from any
modality over a network connection and makes images accessible to any
DICOM viewer or PACS.
• Eliminate data migration. Since data is in a standard, non-proprietary format,
imaging department leaders can choose best-of-breed PACS without onerous
data migration.
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11. • Integration with EMR/EHR. A VNA makes it simpler for accurate medical
images from multiple modalities to be part of patients’ electronic medical
records. This will have a direct impact on meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2
criteria.
• Improve Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). Consolidating PACS archives
makes it easier to manage data centrally and apply information/image
lifecycle management policies.
• Improved PACS and image viewer performance. By offloading infrequently
used images from the PACS storage, a VNA improves the performance of each
departmental PACS.
A VNA delivers image data portability and independence from departmental PACS and
viewing applications. But a VNA is also vendor-neutral in terms of the storage
platform used for storing and managing images. A true VNA enables the use of any
storage platform. But that doesn’t mean all storage platforms are the same. To truly
exploit the value and transformative potential of a VNA, healthcare organizations
need a storage strategy and platform that addresses today’s tactical needs and
prepares for a future of information exchange and collaboration enabled by private
and public clouds.
EMC Atmos Cloud Storage Platform : The Right Fit for VNA
The EMC Atmos cloud storage platform builds on the foundation of CAS and object storage to
deliver a cloud storage platform designed to store, manage, and protect globally distributed
unstructured content at scale. Healthcare organizations have a choice of storage platforms for
their VNA but Atmos is purpose-built as a cloud storage platform – whether private, public or
hybrid - and provides key capabilities that efficiently store medical images and enhance the
value of a Vendor Neutral Archive:
• Cloud storage architecture
• Meta-data driven automated policies
• Multi-tenancy for secure shared resources
• Instant access from any device
• Federate to private or public clouds
Cloud Storage Architecture
Atmos features a single global namespace that presents Atmos as a single system to
applications and users. Atmos’ global namespace technology enables applications or
individuals to simply call up an HTTP address to gain access to storage capacity. This
is especially important when the infrastructure spans multiple sites and geographies.
Regardless of the physical location of the storage resource, it is just an HTTP address
away.
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12. Figure 5: EMC Atmos Clous Storage Platform
Rather than having a primary and secondary site with rotating snapshots and replication, Atmos
is configured as an active/active system. The active/active architecture distributes objects
across all nodes in the infrastructure. Rather than managing two redundant sites, IT manages
the two sites as one system. There are no file system limitations or complex replication and
backup schemes to manage. The environment can scale much more easily and provide more
usable storage. IT can more easily manage a geographically distributed environment as a single
system from one management interface.
Metadata-driven automated policies
Atmos features customizable metadata to apply automated policies for data placement and
retention, protection methods, and efficiency. When certified for a VNA, the Atmos Policy
Manager can apply policies based on the metadata embedded in the medical images by the
VNA. DICOM tags can be passed onto Atmos from the VNA to enable Atmos to apply
customizable, granular policies to automate information lifecycle management.
For example, a modality such as a CT scanner can apply DICOM tags to a medical image at
creation that stipulates how that data is stored and accessed. Atmos can apply a policy that
keeps that image in local storage for 30 days, then automatically archives to long-term storage
or to a third party storage service provider for a set number of years.
Metadata also has a clinical value. Physicians and caregivers can access data based on
metadata. Storage administrators can use listable metadata tags to easily index similar items.
For example, a data query can examine the stored objects to find the one of interest. Healthcare
workers could access all medical records from a specific patient or all patients diagnosed with
heart arrhythmia or all patients with heart arrhythmia using an experimental anti-arrhythmic
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13. medication. Data-driven, automated policies and the use of metadata help healthcare
organizations manage medical images more effectively, reduce operational costs and can
provide caregivers with better patient diagnoses and treatment information.
Multi-tenancy for secure shared resources
Atmos supports multiple tenants all sharing the same underlying infrastructure, while ensuring
that all data is kept separate and secure. Unlike a traditional file system, the user has no
knowledge of the physical location of their stored data (nor do they care). A large hospital or
Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) can offer Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS); in effect, treating each
member hospital or departmental imaging lab as a customer. Each modality, department, or
hospital has a secure, virtual storage resource dedicated to them, but IT manages them through
a single, global system.
Healthcare organizations can offer Archive-as-a-Service. IT can meter usage and provide self-
service capabilities so individual tenants or applications can request additional storage
resources on-demand. The Atmos data access API provides hooks directly from an application
to the Atmos storage infrastructure. If an application requires additional storage, Atmos can
provision automatically without IT involvement. If it is only a temporary need, the added
capacity is automatically returned to the infrastructure and made available to another
application. It’s efficient and eliminates over-provisioning and underutilization.
Instant access from any device
Atmos supports a broad range of access methods to support development and
deployment of packaged or custom-built applications. In effect, Atmos is an
application-agnostic archive. Many healthcare organizations will interact with Atmos
through pre-integrated PACS applications. But they also have the option of using
Atmos Web Services interfaces (REST and SOAP), which allow ubiquitous, scalable
and full featured access to Atmos. The primary benefit is that healthcare
organizations no longer need multiple viewers to access and see medical images.
Most of the Atmos VNA Partners use the Atmos REST API. Support for these web
services protocols makes medical images stored in Atmos available to new Web-
based and mobile applications. Access via mobile devices will become a more
frequent use case as the point of care can be wherever the patient is.
In addition to REST and SOAP, healthcare organizations can also provide access to
Atmos as a mounted drive via the Atmos Installable File System (Linux) and
traditional file system interfaces like NFS (Network File System for Linux) or CIFS
(Common Internet File System for Windows). Not only is Atmos the right architectural
fit for medical image archiving but the use of traditional file system interfaces makes
it a fit for consolidating multiple application archives and managing them as one
single system.
Federate to private or public clouds
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14. The rich policy management features of EMC Atmos enable healthcare organizations to federate
their private cloud data with Atmos-powered public cloud service providers. For example, an
image study may be old and of little further value, but compliance dictates that a hospital retain
the data for an additional 10 years or, in some cases, indefinitely. The hospital can set a policy
that automatically moves the image study to one of over forty Atmos-enabled cloud storage
service providers. This gives storage administrators additional flexibility to store data in the
most cost-effective fashion and according to policy. And they can do that while still managing
both the private and public cloud resources as a single system.
In the longer term, this ability to federate to other Atmos-powered clouds will give healthcare
organizations a head start at participating in private and public health information exchanges.
An IDN can create competitive differentiation by virtue of an information strategy that facilitates
information exchange, collaboration and efficiency that leads to better patient experiences and
outcomes.
The Synergy of Vendor Neutral Archive and EMC Atmos Cloud
Storage Platform
Figure 6 illustrates the synergistic relationship of VNA and EMC Atmos. Together, VNA and EMC
Atmos enable healthcare organizations to not only reduce storage and archive costs, but to
begin the journey towards a world of personalized medicine. The EMC Atmos cloud storage
platform is optimized for VNAs so healthcare IT departments can provide secure, anywhere
access to medical images on any device at the point of care. VNA and Atmos combine to deliver
financial, operational and clinical benefits.
Figure 6: Vendor Neutral Archive and EMC Atmos Cloud Storage Platform
VNA and Atmos Deliver Financial, Operational and Clinical Benefits
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15. The synergies of VNA and Atmos manifest financially, operationally and clinically (Figure 7).
Consolidating individual PACS into one system and multiple archive storage silos into one
global archive reduces management overhead and the many manual tasks associated with
proprietary data and traditional file systems. Atmos reduces much of the tedious file system
management tasks and obviates the need for dedicated backup and replication systems. The
result is that VNA and Atmos can reduce medical image archiving total cost of ownership
upwards of 30% in the following ways:
• Application savings. The VNA reduces application software costs by enabling healthcare
organizations to reduce or eliminate departmental PACS applications and multiple
image viewers.
• Migration savings. A VNA eliminates the dependency between image data and the PACS
applications. Storage administrators no longer have expensive data migrations to
execute when they purchase or upgrade a PACS.
• Storage savings. EMC Atmos healthcare customers reported that they’ve been able to
increase storage density 3x. That translates to lower hardware and software costs, more
efficient use of data center space, and reduced power and cooling costs.
• Storage IT savings. IT can simply offer archive capacity as a service to tenants within
their organization. Gone are the manually intensive and costly tasks of provisioning
storage and managing a complex, heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
The combination of VNA and Atmos make it much more efficient to manage image data from
creation to the end of its useful life (EOL). Hospitals get more value out of existing PACS
investments and can improve their performance as a result of offloading seldom-used PACS
data from the image cache to the Atmos storage platform. Performance is also improved due to
RESTful integration that allows certified VNA applications to initiate multi-threaded reads and
writes to Atmos in parallel.
The cost savings and efficiency alone are motivation enough in many industries. However,
healthcare is unique in that IT investments very often have to demonstrate direct clinical
benefit. Together, VNA and Atmos consolidate and standardize medical image capture and
accessibility. The bottom line is that VNA and Atmos are foundational to making every medical
image study available anywhere on any device at the point of care with appropriate security
controls. Better image accessibility and better information lead to better patient outcomes.
Figure 7: The Synergies of Vendor Neutral Archive and EMC Atmos
Benefits Vendor Neutral Archive EMC Atmos
Financial – Reduce the cost • Consolidate individual PACS archives into • Single global namespace provides a more
of storing and accessing one system efficient, unlimited scale, modern storage
medical image data • Lower TCO than heterogeneous PACS platform
• Extend lifetime of existing PACS • Automated backup and disaster recovery
investments • Lower total cost to archive
• Increased storage density = lower TCO
Operational – more • Achieve sophisticated Information • Meta data, policy driven clinical information
efficiently manage image Lifecycle Management (ILM) lifecycle Management (ILM)
data and storage from • Leverage existing PACS investments and • Integration of DICOM tags and Atmos meta
creation to EOL
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16. improve PACS performance data
• End perpetual migrations • Multi-tenancy to make storage available as a
service
• Federate to public cloud
Clinical – Image data • Make image data available across • Anywhere access to image data via REST,
available anytime, departments and PACS HTTPS
anywhere improves the • Integration with EHR/EMR • Meta-data driven data access
patient experience and • Federate and connect to future HIEs.
efficiency of care delivery
Case Study: Kettering Health Network Improves Medical Imaging
Flow
Kettering Health Network is a non-profit healthcare network covering the Dayton, OH area.
Kettering’s network includes 8 hospitals, over 60 other medical facilities, 8000 employees,
1200 physicians, and 1000 volunteers. Kettering grew from four hospitals to eight and needed
their technology to scale in line with the increasing number of procedures and data they create.
Kettering set out to consolidate their siloed, proprietary PACs. As they were growing, they
needed their information systems to interact better with each other. Kettering had 3 radiology
PACS and 3 cardiology PACS and creates a million image studies per year that need to be
retained for 5 to 10 years. Their goal was to consolidate the multiple systems into one location
and point their EMR system to that one, consolidated image archive. That way, physicians and
other caregivers could access images without having a complex workflow that required 3
separate logins to get the data they needed.
Kettering chose VNA and Atmos cloud storage. Now, Kettering is able to get images quickly and
securely into imaging and viewing applications, manage everything centrally, share those
images across the environment, and provide a better experience to their 1200 physicians.
As further validation of the benefit of Atmos and VNA, Kettering acquired a hospital that had
their own set of PACS. Kettering was able to migrate the acquired hospital’s systems and
integrate them into the Atmos environment within six months. In addition, Atmos has been
much less expensive to manage. As a result Kettering can keep data online that would have
otherwise gone to tape sooner.
“We were able to provide images and drop their turnaround time from 8 hours to only
a couple hours and often under an hour.”
William Hall, Imaging Applications Coordinator
Kettering Health Network
Conclusion
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17. Individually, Vendor Neutral Archiving and Atmos cloud storage each have financial
and operational benefits. VNA consolidates individual PACS archives into one system.
EMC Atmos consolidates multiple file-based archive storage silos into one, global
archive. However, the value of VNA and Atmos together is far greater than the sum of
their individual capabilities. The bottom line is simple connectivity – how to move
and translate data from one environment to another as part of the diagnostic process.
And consolidate image repositories and links to displays or dashboards with
analytics. Cloud infrastructure facilitates this data mobility and works in tandem with
VNA to consolidate image repositories and facilitate information access and
exchange.
Healthcare organizations and delivery networks can reduce the complexity and cost
of their heterogeneous PACS environments and build efficiencies that make organic
growth and growth by acquisition manageable and profitable. VNA and Atmos make IT
more efficient and enable IT leaders to shift resources from repetitive operational
tasks to more value-adding technology initiatives aligned with their organization’s
mission. VNA and Atmos facilitate information sharing and image availability across
modalities and the organization to reduce costs, make caregivers more productive,
and improve the quality and safety of patient care. VNA and Atmos serve as a
foundation on which to build healthcare clouds that facilitate the journey to truly
personalized medicine.
To learn more about the Atmos product family, see http://www.emc.com/atmos
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