The document discusses the challenges healthcare providers face in managing the large amount of medical imaging data being generated. There has been exponential growth in medical imaging data due to factors like an aging population, improved technology, defensive medicine practices, and data retention requirements. This massive amount of data strains healthcare organizations' storage capabilities and makes accessing and sharing images between providers difficult. The document introduces cloud services as a potential solution that could help hospitals better manage resources and provide improved access and sharing of medical images.
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
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
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.
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: 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
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
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
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
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.
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: 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
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 : 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.
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
Clinical Narrative And Structured Data In The Ehr Venus And Mars Live In Harm...Nick van Terheyden
For nearly two decades healthcare technology has attempted to impose new documentation methods that are more suited to database management but do not meet the needs of the busy practicing physician. Conventional wisdom is that documents are bad and discrete data is good but historically clinicians have resisted efforts to establish structured data entry methodologies trying to replace the clinician preferred method of data capture – dictation. Clinical Document Architecture for Common Document Types (CDA4CDT) offers a bridge between the two opposing worlds of clinical documentation creating semantically interoperable data while retaining the precise clinical content contained in free flowing narrative
This informative webinar features Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst from ESG, who discusses the data management challenges facing healthcare IT professionals. Jamie Clifton from BridgeHead Software concludes with a brief discussion of BridgeHead's healthcare data management solutions, including HEAT, an archiving appliance built with Sun Microsystems.
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.
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
Revenue opportunities in the management of healthcare data delugeShahid Shah
Healthcare data is hard to deal with and getting even harder and more expensive. In this presentation, Shahid Shah covers why:
* Healthcare data is going from hard to nearly impossible to manage.
* Applications come and go, data lives forever.
* Data integration is notoriously difficult, even in the best of circumstances, and requires sophisticated tools and attention to detail.
And, then talks about how new techniques are needed to store and manage healthcare data.
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
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.
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
Learn more about Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere by visiting http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/hitachi-content-platform-anywhere.html
and more information on the Hitachi Content Platform is at http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/content-platform
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.
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.
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
Clinical Narrative And Structured Data In The Ehr Venus And Mars Live In Harm...Nick van Terheyden
For nearly two decades healthcare technology has attempted to impose new documentation methods that are more suited to database management but do not meet the needs of the busy practicing physician. Conventional wisdom is that documents are bad and discrete data is good but historically clinicians have resisted efforts to establish structured data entry methodologies trying to replace the clinician preferred method of data capture – dictation. Clinical Document Architecture for Common Document Types (CDA4CDT) offers a bridge between the two opposing worlds of clinical documentation creating semantically interoperable data while retaining the precise clinical content contained in free flowing narrative
This informative webinar features Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst from ESG, who discusses the data management challenges facing healthcare IT professionals. Jamie Clifton from BridgeHead Software concludes with a brief discussion of BridgeHead's healthcare data management solutions, including HEAT, an archiving appliance built with Sun Microsystems.
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.
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
Revenue opportunities in the management of healthcare data delugeShahid Shah
Healthcare data is hard to deal with and getting even harder and more expensive. In this presentation, Shahid Shah covers why:
* Healthcare data is going from hard to nearly impossible to manage.
* Applications come and go, data lives forever.
* Data integration is notoriously difficult, even in the best of circumstances, and requires sophisticated tools and attention to detail.
And, then talks about how new techniques are needed to store and manage healthcare data.
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
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.
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
Learn more about Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere by visiting http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/hitachi-content-platform-anywhere.html
and more information on the Hitachi Content Platform is at http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/content-platform
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.
Presentation from Chesapeake Regional Tech Council\'s TechFocus Seminar on Cloud Security; Presented by Scott C Sadler, Business Development Executive - Cloud Computing, IBM US East Mid-Market & Channels on Thursday, October 27, 2011. http://www.chesapeaketech.org
Health IT Summit DC 2015 - Cloud Storage and Medical Image Management: Responding to the filesize increases of advanced imaging technologies
Todd Thomas
CIO
Austin Radiological Association
iHT2 case studies and presentations illustrate challenges, successes, and various factors in the outcomes of numerous types of health IT implementations. They are interactive and dynamic sessions providing opportunity for dialogue, debate and exchanging ideas and best practices. This session will be presented by a thought leader in the provider, payer or government space.
DriCloud. Cloud based Electronic Medical Recorddricloud
EHR - Cloud based practice Management Software for medical clinics and healthcare providers. DriCloud is an easy and intuitive that adapts to the way you work
Rapid advances in technology has led to the amalgamation of two very powerful technologies, mobile and the cloud. This presentation highlights its importance in healthcare
DriCloud. Software Medico en la nube. Gestion historia clinica online.dricloud
El mejor software medico para gestión clínica y de la historia médica online. Nuestro programa en la Nube es el más avanzado y seguro. www.dricloud.com
Apports du projet de loi de santé en matière de dématérialisation des données...ASIP Santé
Présenté en conseil des ministres le 15 octobre 2014, le texte du projet de loi de modernisation de notre système de vient d’être adopté en première lecture à l’Assemblée nationale. Plusieurs articles changent la donne en matière de dématérialisation des données de santé. Revue des principales nouveautés avant l’examen au sénat.
In the AWS Healthcare Days presentation you’ll learn best practices for architecting cloud-based applications for the healthcare industry with a deep technical overview and demos. Topics to be covered in this presentation include building a healthcare analytics pipeline in the cloud, HIPAA-compliant storage and archiving, and Using infrastructure-as-code to automate your security and compliance policies. You will also see how cloud security partner, Clear DATA, is helping healthcare providers leverage services like AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail, as well as, system level tooling to maintain the security and compliance of applications and environments through automation.
IoT is a combination of hardware and software technology that produces trillions of data through connecting multiple devices and sensors with the cloud and making sense of data with intelligent tools
IoT in Healthcare is a heterogeneous computing, wirelessly communicating system of apps and devices that connects patients and health providers to diagnose, monitor, track and store vital statistics and medical information.
Strategic Uses for Cost Efficient Long-Term Cloud StorageAmazon Web Services
Compared to storing long-term datasets on-premises, archiving in the cloud is a smart alternative whether you’re looking for an active archive solution, tape replacement, or to fulfill a compliance requirement. Learn how AWS customers are simplifying their archiving strategy and meeting compliance needs using Amazon Glacier. Hear how customers have evolved their backup and disaster recovery architectures and replaced tape solutions by turning to AWS for a more cost efficient, durable and agile solution. We will showcase Sony DADC's active archive deployment on Glacier and demo how some of our financial service customers have set up compliant archives to meet their regulatory objectives.
Part of the "2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics" held at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2016.
This conference aimed to: (1) identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; (2) understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; (3) determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and (4) examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich.
Learn more at http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference.
What are the major challenges for managing health care information t.pdffsenterprises
What are the major challenges for managing health care information technology in the context of
health care reform? How should existing and future health care information technology be
managed?
Solution
Tha Major Challenges :
There are Mainly 5 Information Technology Challenges Faced by Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare is among the economic sectors facing the most significant challenges in
implementing effective IT solutions.
Chief information officers in healthcare settings must balance strict privacy and security
requirements with the need to constantly improve IT infrastructure and performance. From small
doctor’s offices to major hospitals, the healthcare IT environment is increasingly complex and, if
not managed appropriately, can negatively impact patient care.
A Growing Flood of Data
Healthcare data usage is growing at an exponential pace for a variety of reasons. Digital imaging
technologies, electronic medical records, and resource-taxing applications are placing a strain on
existing data infrastructures. Mobile applications and a growing use of telemedicine technologies
also are increasing data generation and the need for its secure storage and management.
Federal HIPAA Privacy Requirements
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, requires medical providers
to safeguard patients’ private medical information. The federal law requires stringent procedures
for backing up data along with recovering data in disaster and emergency situations. The Health
Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act, or HITECH, strengthened
HIPAA and increased penalties and requirements for mandatory notifications when data
breaches occur.
Inadequate Data Storage Capacity
Data storage needs for healthcare double approximately every 18 months, largely due to
regulatory pressure to keep patient information indefinitely. Forward-thinking medical
organizations have begun implementing strategic, multi-tiered storage plans that include on-site,
off-site and virtual storage. But improving overall storage capacity also requires more efficient
software solutions for managing the massive and growing amounts of data that now exist in
diverse medical environments.
Lack of Communication among Healthcare Systems
Only in the past few years have electronic medical records become the standard, and data
systems that smoothly interface between all medical providers remain years away. While the
industry regularly rolls out innovations to improve patient care and facility operations, the
advances often have limited capability to “talk” to each other. This lack of ability to interface
across systems restricts the ability to automate processes and to capture and use data effectively,
decreasing the return on investment for technology.
Increasing Costs of IT Projects in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are facing rapidly increasing IT costs from a number of drivers,
including government regulations, growing energy needs and pressure t.
Data Management - a top Priority for Healthcare PracticesData Dynamics Inc
The healthcare industry has become increasingly data-driven and poised to take a leap into the future, thanks to an increasingly tech-savvy and demanding patient-consumer base. While the Healthcare Data Ecosystem is presently fragmented and often, insufficient, pioneering firms see vast opportunities to be a part of the Healthcare revolution through proper management of their massive amount of Data.
Healthcare has unique data management challenges that other industries do not face, so the solutions that worked in those fields cannot simply be replicated. Challenges in healthcare data management include -
1. Data environment consolidation in acquisitions and mergers
2. Managing the rapid growth of unstructured healthcare data
3. Adhering to the strict healthcare regulations and reforms
On top of this, Healthcare organizations have to ensure that their data management solution must have a dependable & active security protocol to safeguard sensitive information of patients as per HIPAA norms. With the exponential increase in data, risk is only going to amplify.
In case of mergers & acquisitions, a sizable challenge for large healthcare corporates is the Amalgamation and Streamlining Data with the parent company’s processes. This becomes tedious and cost intensive as merging two data environments that are often radically different from each other into a single system, is difficult and tedious.
Healthcare companies need consumer-driven data strategies with patients at the forefront of their planning. How? To know, read on.
Data Dynamics is a leader in intelligent file management solutions that empower enterprises to seamlessly analyze, move, manage and modernize critical data across hybrid, cloud and object-based storage infrastructures for true business transformation.
IDC White Paper - Integrated Patient Record - Empowering Patient Centric Care...buntib
Despite the growing use of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange (HIE) technologies, providers and payers still face challenges with regard to accessing all the information known about a given patient or member. Patient health information can be trapped in siloed healthcare information systems, paper-based documents and processes, or non-machine-readable documents. An integrated view of patient information improves the experience of clinicians by enabling them to better serve their patients, which in turn leads to better outcomes. The ability to create comprehensive patient-centric records is crucial for improving not only quality of care but also patient safety.
Electronic Health Records: purpose of electronic health records, popular electronic health record system, advantages of electronic records, challenges of electronic health records, the key players involved.
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Running Head: Stage 2: Sharing Data1
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Stage 2: Sharing Data
Alesix Tieku
Dr.Lindsey hopper
IFSM 305
July 11th, 2019
Table of Contents
A.Introduction2
B.Need to Share Data2
C.Types of Data to be shared3
D.Data Interchange Standards4
E.Summary4
Stage 2: Sharing DataA. Introduction
Medical care institutions have provided care for their patients since old times before the digital technology era that we are in today. Medical institutions like clinics and hospitals which existed during those previous times, used paper based methods to get most of their basic operations done within the institutions. Operations like obtaining, saving and updating customer details, keeping appointment schedules, and sharing customer data with other institutions. Now in the modern era of technology, the same operations are needed but are simpler now than back then, thanks to digital technology.
The sharing of data between institutions is necessity in the medical profession in for various reasons. The institutions that require such data have different reasons for that as well. For these reasons, data sharing between institutions needs to be properly set and streamlined process for maximum efficiency.B. Need to Share Data
Of the many institutions that exist in the medical industry, two institutions are very crucial to the process of administering medical help to patients; Laboratories and Insurance companies.
Laboratories are essential to the process of diagnosing and treating an illness in a patient for various reasons. First of all, a patient’s diagnosis process can be a difficult problem and a rather complicated one too. When a doctor listens to a patient describe the symptoms of an illness, he/she gets a general idea of what a patient is suffering from and may need further information from a laboratory to confirm his findings. In such a scenario, the doctor sends the patient to a laboratory either within the institution or outside the institution. The laboratory will most definitely require accurate information about the patient to understand the basic nature of the condition of which the patient is required to be tested on, background information like allergies and any other relevant information. This information is usually given by the doctor or retrieved from data storage facilities like a file or a digital database.
Insurance companies are also essential in the process of treating a patient for various reasons. The major reason however is for the purposes of billing of patients expenses. These companies need information about the expenses incurred by a patient during treatment. Such information may include: laboratory test costs, drugs and medicine costs and doctor consultation fees. Proper communication and data sharing frameworks need to be put in place for this purpose as well.
C. Types of Data to be shared
Medical care institutions often need to share patient information with external institutions for the purposes of sa ...
This white paper offers a detailed perspective on how big data is impacting the healthcare industry and its underlying implication on the industry as a whole. It outlines the role of big data in healthcare, its benefits, core components and challenges faced by the healthcare sector towards full-fledged adoption & implementation.
The care business traditionally has generated massive amounts of inf.pdfanudamobileshopee
The care business traditionally has generated massive amounts of information, driven by record
keeping, compliance & regulative needs, and patient care [1]. whereas most knowledge is hold
on in text type, the present trend is toward fast conversion of those massive amounts of
information. Driven by obligatory needs and also the potential to enhance the standard of health
care delivery in the meantime reducing the prices, these huge quantities of information (known
as ‘big data’) hold the promise of supporting a good vary of medical and care functions, as well
as among others clinical call support, illness police work, and population health management [2,
3, 4, 5]. Reports say knowledge from the U.S. care system alone reached, in 2011, one hundred
fifty exabytes. At this rate of growth, huge knowledge for U.S. care can before long reach the
zettabyte (1021 gigabytes) scale and, shortly when, the yottabyte (1024 gigabytes) [6]. Kaiser
Permanente, the California-based health network, that has over nine million members, is
believed to possess between twenty six.5 and forty four petabytes of doubtless made knowledge
from EHRs, as well as pictures and annotations [6].
By definition, huge knowledge in care refers to electronic health knowledge sets therefore
massive and complicated that they\'re tough (or impossible) to manage with ancient computer
code and/or hardware; nor will they be simply managed with ancient or common knowledge
management tools and strategies [7]. huge knowledge in care is overwhelming not solely due to
its volume however additionally due to the range of information varieties and also the speed at
that it should be managed [7]. The totality of information associated with patient care and well-
being compose “big data” within the care business. It includes clinical knowledge from CPOE
and clinical call support systems (physician’s written notes and prescriptions, medical imaging,
laboratory, pharmacy, insurance, and alternative body knowledge); patient knowledge in
electronic patient records (EPRs); machine generated/sensor data, like from observance
important signs; social media posts, as well as Twitter feeds (so-called tweets) [8], blogs [9],
standing updates on Facebook and alternative platforms, and net pages; and fewer patient-
specific data, as well as emergency care knowledge, news feeds, and articles in medical journals.
For the massive knowledge person, there is, amongst this large quantity and array of information,
chance. By discovering associations and understanding patterns and trends inside the
information, huge knowledge analytics has the potential to enhance care, save lives and lower
prices. Thus, huge knowledge analytics applications in care cash in of the explosion in
knowledge to extract insights for creating higher enlightened selections [10, 11, 12], and as a
groundwork class square measure noted as, no surprise here, huge knowledge analytics in care
[13, 14, 15]. once huge knowledge is synthesized and an.
Healthcare data and its impact upon the patient care decision process via accurate, real-time, reliable data from disparate sources is creating a digital health revolution. Data-driven healthcare is beginning to have a huge impact addressing the challenges of every provider, through efficient handling of huge volumes of patient care data.
Providers need to move towards real-time analytics that have become critical to demonstrate their quality of care, as reimbursement by government programs can be contingent upon how providers are measured in “Quality of Care”. For example, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, also called the Permanent Doc Fix, changes the way Medicare doctors are reimbursed with the implementation of a merit based incentive. The performance-based pressure is huge, which makes it imperative that every provider consider technology solutions. Read more at https://www.solix.com/solutions/data-driven-solutions/healthcare/
Big data is more than just a buzzword in healthcare. It's the promise of being able to extract, cull, and interpret medical data to directly benefit population and individual health. learn more about the benefits of big data, roadblocks to leveraging it's potential, how Meaningful Use enablesbig data, what types of cross-country collaboration projects are advancing the use of big data on an international scale, big data's impact on patient privacy and much more! Special thanks to Mandi Bishop for her time on the podcast.
HCOs need to consider a more holistic and efficient approach to information management based on a strategic data classification program that discovers and controls PHI wherever it is stored.
Health information technology (Health IT) is an area of information technology that includes the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Automated and compatible healthcare information systems will continue to improve healthcare and healthcare, reduce costs, increase efficiency, reduce errors and increase patient satisfaction, and optimize cost recovery for outpatient and inpatient health care providers.
What are the existing challenges in the medical data collection processes - ...Pubrica
• The collection of medical data determines the patient's life quality improvement if the medical professionals, pharma, and the payers collaborate closely.
• Medical sectors must understand the collaborations between the patient, doctor, payer and prescription. The reliable data is now at the heart of any hospital decision.
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1. Medical Imaging
in the Cloud
Executive Summary
The wealth of electronic data generated by the U.S. healthcare system presents a paradox for
healthcare providers. Cloud services offers healthcare an attractive solution, helping hospitals
scale with ease, better manage resources, and provide fluid access and sharing of medical images
across organizations, departments and providers – achieving a connectedness that supports
healthcare organizations’ patient care goals. Learn why cloud services may be the solution to your
healthcare organization’s medical imaging challenges.
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The Challenge Causes of Explosive Data Growth
The wealth of electronic data generated by the U.S. healthcare Over the past decade, the amount of medical imaging data generated
system presents a paradox for healthcare providers. On one hand, in the U.S. has experienced exponential growth, creating a “tsunami
rich patient and health data created by electronic health records effect” and huge demand for data storage. There are a number of
and other information systems promises to radically improve patient factors behind this explosive growth:
care and increase efficiencies for lower system-wide costs. The federal
government has placed great emphasis on access to better patient • ging population – The Baby Boomer generation continues to age,
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data as the salvation for many of healthcare’s woes. and by 2020 there will be 6.6 million Americans who are age 85
and older.vii Advances in healthcare mean people are living longer,
On the other hand, there is the sheer burden of wrangling this but there is more chronic disease, accounting for $1.4 trillion of our
increasing volume of data and patient information, which falls nation’s healthcare spending.viii
largely on the shoulders of the hospitals and health systems.
They must store, file, manage, protect and, of course, make patient • mproved technology/modalities – Medical imaging technology
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records readily and rapidly accessible to clinicians, legal and has improved, and a number of new and evolving modalities create
compliance departments, and other internal operations when more detailed images for less invasive and more accurate methods
requested in order to enhance patient care. of diagnosis. Technological advancements such as 3D imaging,
full-body PET/MR scans and other techniques deliver unprecedented
Medical imaging is a big slice of the digital data pie. Some 400 detail, but also create new image complexities and massive data
million procedures a year in the U.S. now involve at least one medical storage requirements.
image. From a data management point of view, digital medical images
represent a particular challenge. They produce extremely large data • efensive medicine – Doctors are ordering more medical images
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files, and the modalities used to create them are constantly evolving. to protect themselves against malpractice lawsuits. One 2011
At the same time, healthcare organizations’ existing technology – study showed that 19 percent of diagnostic imaging tests ordered
including existing data storage capabilities and the picture archiving by orthopedic surgeons were purely for “defensive” purposes –
and communication systems (PACS) used by radiologists – are radically accounting for about 35 percent of imaging costs.ix
limiting efforts to harness this massive amount of medical imaging data. • iloed data – By some estimates, more than 20 percent of
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Healthcare organizations are beginning to consider cloud computing diagnostic imaging tests are repeats – as a patient moves from
as an attractive option for helping them manage medical imaging provider to provider, multiple images of the same area may be
data. This white paper examines the medical imaging challenges facing taken because patient records cannot be shared or accessed.
the healthcare industry and lays out many of the key considerations • ederal and state retention requirements for medical record
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hospitals should weigh as they explore cloud services as a solution for archives – HIPAA requires healthcare providers to keep medical
storing, sharing, accessing and archiving medical imaging data. records archived for six years after discharge, though the rule can
differ by state. HIPAA’s baseline requirements preempt state laws if
Explosive Growth of Medical Imaging the state has a shorter retention requirement. Because there is no
The millions of medical images generated each year represent an national standard, most hospitals tend to keep records on hand
enormous challenge for healthcare organizations as they struggle to indefinitely for legal reasons, contributing to the rising demand
manage, access and share this data while trying to reduce costs. How for data storage.
significant is this issue? Some eye-opening statistics:
• edical image archives are increasing by 20-40 percent each year.
M Managing the Data Tsunami
It is projected that by 2012 there will be 1 billion medical images Healthcare organizations historically have underinvested in IT staff
stored in the U.S.i and infrastructure compared to other information-intensive industries.
• t is estimated that medical imaging information storage constitutes
I Therefore, many healthcare organizations may not have adequate
one-third of global storage demand,ii which, in 2007, was the IT resources or storage capabilities to manage the growing amount
equivalent of 1.2 billion average hard drives. iii of data, including medical images, that they need to retain to meet
requirements. Cost and security are two huge factors as healthcare
• ne individual’s online medical record could equate to 12
O organizations evaluate their capabilities to manage data storage and
billion novels.iv access. Hospitals also must consider the accessibility and “shareability”
of medical images, as well as the overwhelming issue of data
• s of 2010, it was estimated that medical centers needed to hold
A migration as they consider how to scale their data stores.
2 trillion filing cabinets worth of information.v
• he sheer number of images ordered by physicians has exploded in
T Security and Privacy Regulations
the past 15 years. One study showed that the number of MRI units Healthcare organizations are required by federal legislation to
more than doubled between 1995 and 2004, while the number of ensure the security of their data from all “reasonably anticipated
CT units grew more than 50 percent.vi threats.” Specifically, the HIPAA Security Rule (Security Standards for
the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information) requires
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that healthcare organizations put in place administrative, physical Data Performance, Storage Costs and Protection
and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, With some older PACS, accessing, viewing and annotating digital
and availability of electronic protected health information (PHI). images can be a slow process for radiologists and physicians, delaying
Technical safeguards include access, audit and integrity controls, as patient care and frustrating users. When older PACS do not have the
well as transmission security. In case of disaster, the Security Rule needed bandwidth to handle the image volume, some organizations
requires various contingency plans to be put in place and tested have opted to store less data on the PACS system and archive older
regularly, including data backup, recovery and access plans. These images in less costly data storage systems.
stringent requirements can put a great deal of pressure on already
overburdened hospital IT departments. This means that images are not readily accessible for users, resulting
in long wait times for image delivery. Backup tapes and other “budget”
In addition, new HIPAA privacy and security rules required by the storage methods can compromise the quality of image archives.
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Additionally, healthcare organizations must budget for the capital
(HITECH) – part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act expenses to buy and maintain servers and backup centers as well as
(ARRA) – make it even more important for healthcare organizations the IT department to support them, while at the same time paying for
to be able to access data in a timely manner. HITECH requires healthcare unused PACS capacity. The cost and complexities of data backup and
providers with an electronic health record system (EHR) to provide, upon redundancy can be cumbersome for many IT departments that choose
request, an access report of who accessed a patient’s records.x to manage this in-house, as they must deal with multiple proprietary
storage solutions and systems from a variety of vendors.
Sharing and Accessing Diagnostic Images
Federal legislation, healthcare reform and aging technologies are Migration to New PACS/Storage Servers
pushing healthcare organizations to implement forward-thinking About 80 percent of all PACS in the U.S. are five years or older,xi with
information-sharing capabilities – and the ability to share medical aging hardware and expiring vendor contracts. Healthcare organizations
images is part of that push. may be considering replacement of these aging PACS as they struggle
to keep up with the emerging demands of larger image sizes and new
The need to share medical data and images is becoming especially image types.
relevant in two areas. First, impending healthcare reform, the pressing
need to slash costs in many organizations, and the need for healthcare PACS upgrades can cause issues of performance, interoperability
organizations to scale to negotiate better reimbursement rates or non-support with other systems in an organization. Additionally,
and purchasing contracts are driving a boom in healthcare mergers healthcare organizations will need to make the decision of whether
and acquisitions. As organizations merge, their providers need to be to migrate existing data to their new PACS, or to keep them archived
able to quickly share data and work together across locations and on backup servers. Archiving years of past data can be a prohibitively
departmental boundaries. costly and time-consuming endeavor that can be disruptive to hospital
workflow. Hospitals will want to make sure if they invest in data
Second, the federal government is encouraging the establishment of migration, it is a one-time activity. The idea of needing to continue to
health information exchanges (HIEs) with grants via the State Health invest in upgrades and migrations every few years can cause anxiety
Information Exchange (State HIE) Cooperative Agreement Program. for hospital CIOs and other leaders with an eye on operational
Especially as healthcare organizations strive to achieve meaningful use efficiency and cost management.
requirements as stipulated by HITECH, HIEs are becoming a critical part
of the big picture in finding ways to use data for improved patient care. Considering the Cloud for Medical Imaging
Unfortunately, the technology primarily used by healthcare Cloud services (known in modern tech jargon as “the cloud”) refers
organizations today to create, access, view, annotate, manage and to a network of servers connected by the Internet or other network
store medical images – picture archiving and communication systems that enables users to combine and use computing power on an
(PACS) – is prohibitive when it comes to sharing images. Because as-needed basis. Each user does not have to purchase and maintain
they use proprietary software, PACS typically only share information individual computing power. The cloud provides virtual centralization
between other “like” PACS. of applications, storage, etc. which can be accessed by any web-
friendly device (computer, laptop, smart phone, tablet, etc.) virtually
This makes the critical sharing of information difficult even within a anywhere. Centralization gives the cloud service provider system-
single organization or department if multiple PACS were purchased wide control over, for example, security and application upgrades,
from different vendors. Healthcare organizations increasingly are called negating the need for installation of upgrades on individual devices.
upon to share medical images, and for some, currently the only way to Typically customers pay for the amount of computing power they use
do so is to burn images to CDs and deliver them by mail or courier – a (comparable to how we pay for electricity or other utilities).
labor-intensive, timely process.
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Consolidated Access, Viewing, Extends the Life of PACS
Sharing and Storing of Medical Images The cloud does not have to replace existing PACS that still have value
to an organization. Instead, it can make an organization’s PACS work
more efficiently. With software that can convert proprietary data to
vendor-neutral imaging data, the cloud can function as the thread
that ties all PACS together by consolidating storage from disparate
PACS, expanding to address increased storage volume, avoiding
migration for new PACS and upgrades, and providing for backup and
business continuity.
Saves Money Over Time
By ending the need for future migration and taking ownership of data,
hardware and storage, hospitals may be able to save significant money
over time by migrating to the cloud.
Increases Productivity and Efficiency
Purchasing cloud services to extend infrastructure investments
For the healthcare industry, cloud services represent an enormous and supplement already-stretched IT staff can make a healthcare
opportunity. Storing, archiving, sharing and accessing images in organization much more efficient when it comes to labor, patient care,
the cloud allows the industry to manage data more efficiently and and IT resource management. The cloud negates the need to upgrade
cost-effectively while overcoming many of the legal, regulatory and individual technology. Security, regulations compliance, backup systems
technical challenges that data requirements pose. The cloud enables and disaster recovery can be managed in a centralized fashion. On
hospitals to: the user end, physicians/healthcare professionals save time when
accessing/using images – avoiding the sometimes long wait times to
• Efficiently handle large bandwidth images access images from disconnected data storage systems.
• Use non-proprietary, standards-based, vendor-neutral architecture
Key Considerations When Looking to the Cloud
• Expand or contract storage capacity easily as needed Those who have not used cloud services previously may be skeptical
or nervous about off-site medical data storage for many reasons,
• Manage authentication, encryption and security protocols especially in light of the complex and stringent privacy and security
• Conduct efficient system-wide application upgrades requirements facing hospitals. As hospitals consider the cloud as an
option for medical imaging and explore the variety of cloud-based
• Extend the life of existing infrastructure/investments medical imaging solutions on the market, it is important to weigh a
number of factors.
Cloud services may be the solution that enables healthcare
organizations to harness their data to create a more patient-centric
system and improve patient care, become more cost-efficient,
and increase organizational efficiency and productivity.
Creating a More Connected, Patient-Centric System HITECH ISO
Consolidating and storing patient imaging and information in one
The Health Information Technology The International Organization
centralized repository in the cloud instead of in multiple siloed PACS in for Economic and Clinical Health for Standardization (ISO)
different locations means healthcare professionals can quickly access Act (HITECH) is a “sub-act” of establishes formal standards
and share images and information about a patient across departments the 2009 American Recovery for various industries, including
and organizations, creating a comprehensive picture of a patient’s and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) healthcare information security.
health status and enabling better care. that establishes requirements for ISO certification indicates that
healthcare organizations to achieve international regulations and
“meaningful use” of healthcare controls concerning information
Scalable to Cost-Effectively Meet an Organization’s Needs data through the use of electronic security are being met.
With medical image archive volumes increasing exponentially, many health records and other technology.
healthcare organizations are wondering how they will manage and pay ONC-ATCB certification means that
for potentially huge amounts of future data storage. Cloud services a vendor’s technology meets the
work on a pay-as-you-go model, with users paying for the amount guidelines that can support hospitals
of capacity actually used. For healthcare organizations, this can be a in meeting these meaningful
use requirements.
cost-effective way to increase storage and computing needs as the
organization grows, paying for storage as an expense without making
additional capital investments.
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Security Hospitals can only extend their enterprises into the cloud if they are
The HIPAA Security Rule and relatively new privacy and security able to bridge the gaps between their existing IT and communications
requirements imposed by HITECH add new levels of complexity to systems and their cloud-based information. The ability to securely
hospitals’ existing IT security methodologies and infrastructure. Moving connect wired and wireless assets together in order to deliver cloud
to the cloud may provide a more secure option for hospitals – with services and apps to any computer or device is a key consideration for
a solid infrastructure and security procedures for protecting against cloud services to support connected, efficient care. Hospitals should
network-borne attacks and hackers as well as ensuring business consider whether their cloud services enable:
continuity. The right cloud solution for medical imaging should
bear the endorsement of these two key standards-bearers for the • onnectivity of the cloud archive to PACS servers and
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continuity plan, with full image redundancy and instant access to • ustom design of data structure for easy browsing
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backup images for clinicians. The network used to store and deliver and discovery of data
cloud-based data should be armed with layers of security to protect
information while enabling flexible control over how you can access • etwork optimization to ensure speed and reliability for greater
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and deliver data. clinician satisfaction
Vendor-Neutral Archive Data Migration
There are a number of cloud-based medical imaging archive solutions A key benefit of vendor-neutral cloud technology is that data needs
on the market today that claim to be “vendor-neutral” – but what does only to be migrated one time – and can be accessed and utilized
that really mean? A vendor-neutral archive should give hospitals the with any PACS. It is important for an organization to work with a
ability to not only send images to the cloud from any PACS, but also vendor that can migrate data efficiently and correctly, as this is a
to be able to access any of those images from any PACS systems – time- and resources-intensive investment. Partnering with a vendor
simply stated, to be able to send from PACS A and view from PACS B. that is experienced in medical imaging data migration and that works
This “one to any” relationship, means it is a truly vendor-neutral, to understand your hospital’s goals for accessibility and workflow
imaging solution that can: is essential.
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Networking and Mobility
Many times, service providers that offer digital archiving solutions ATT Medical Imaging and Information Management delivers enterprise
treat them like a rented storage space in the sky – something you cloud services that create more efficient healthcare while vigilantly
put things into and lock them up for safekeeping. But hospitals need protecting patient information with the industry-leading security of the
to keep medical imaging data fluid and flexible, enabling providers to ATT global network. The service provides your hospital with a high
quickly find, view, work with, and share files regardless of where they degree of customization and flexibility in how you manage your data
need them and how they need to use them. This includes the ability and deliver it to your end users – the providers who will use it for more
to continue using a hospital’s PACS reading workstations (regardless insightful patient care.
of vendor), but also the ability to use mobile devices such as iPads
and mobile phones at the bedside or while on rounds, and to access
images from a PC desktop.