News Feature | September 15, 2014

Imaging Solution Drives Content To The Point Of Care

By Karla Paris

Point Of Care Imaging Solution

An independent VNA platform is being utilized by an Atlanta healthcare facility to streamline management of medical images.

Medical image management for radiologists, cardiologists, and other clinical users at Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare just got a whole lot better thanks to a new partnership with Lexmark’s Perceptive Software. Piedmont will deploy Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive to consolidate medical imaging across all hospital and clinic locations through the new partnership.

Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive was selected to serve as the core technology platform for managing nearly one million diagnostic imaging studies performed annually across Piedmont facilities. Perceptive Software will also assist Piedmont in migrating approximately six million existing studies, stored primarily in radiology and cardiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), into the new enterprise vendor neutral archive (VNA).

Piedmont Healthcare sought an independent VNA platform to streamline management of medical images stored in separate clinical data silos, making it easier to share images across facilities and with referring physicians. The company was also looking to reduce costs and complexity associated with moving clinical content from departmental archives to the point of care.

Last year alone, Piedmont served nearly two million patients – performing more than 44,000 surgeries, delivering 8,000 babies, providing 471,695 outpatient encounters, completing 235 organ transplants, and handling nearly 250,000 emergency room visits.

With Perceptive Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive, Piedmont expects to experience better medical collaboration and decision-making, providing the foundational data infrastructure for:

  • clinical abstraction including the ability to virtualize clinical applications via a service-oriented approach that enables standards-based information exchange;
  • intelligence engine providing a technology layer that enables clinical workflows to drive content to the point of need; and
  • lifecycle management allowing the user to abstract and virtualize the storage of physical assets and manage content within a patient context.

Perceptive Software for Enterprise Content Management is utilized throughout Piedmont’s health system’s five hospitals to bring key patient content such as scanned insurance cards, photographs, physician notes, etc., directly into Piedmont’s Epic Electronic Medical Record system. Piedmont Healthcare also uses Perceptive Intelligent Capture in accounts payable, while Perceptive Software back office solutions are used in human resources and materials management. These solutions integrate with the health system’s PeopleSoft application.

Piedmont Healthcare is also a Lexmark Managed Print Services customer, which enables the healthcare system to standardize and optimize its output environment through additional workflow solutions for improved employee productivity, patient care support, and printing cost reduction.

SOURCE: PRWeb