From the September 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Clinical collaboration platform provides a framework
The CCP can also provide a framework for ingesting, managing, storing and distributing images and data captured by existing departmental systems that were not designed to support existing or emerging industry standards. This framework will involve the use of established standards such as IHE, HL7, DICOM, XDS-I and web services. It also can incorporate FHIR (fast health care interoperability resources), and offers standards-based support for mobile applications. FHIR uses existing logical and theoretical models to offer a consistent method for exchanging data between the EHR and VNA as well as other health care applications.
Departments can add the modular services they need without the expense of replacing existing systems. They can expand access to EHR, payer, administrative, telemedicine and other systems across multiple networks and multiple service providers. The ultimate goal is to accept clinical images from any source, add the appropriate context to make images manageable and meaningful, store these images in a patient-centric repository and securely deliver them to authorized users including physicians, patients, executives, payers and other stakeholders. This enhanced image access promises to deliver improved efficiencies and cost reductions, and can ultimately equip physicians with the information they need to make better-informed diagnostic and treatment decisions.
About the author: Cristine Kao is Carestream’s global marketing and growth operations director for health care information solutions.Back to HCB News
