It's All in Our Name
To heal patients, to prevent many diseases, to increase human longevity, physicians need to see inside the body with minimal invasion. Medical technology has made the body transparent down to the sub-cellular level and put science-fiction-like tools for diagnosis and treatment at physicians' fingertips. It is now easy to see how the massive, complex, interrelated digital content generated will yield individual patient records in excess of a terabyte.
Tera-Complexity of a Patient's Record
Think about it. A terabyte of information coming from dozens of specialties, modalities and systems that needs to be stored, protected, correlated, shared, and available for recall in dozens of applications of today and an unknown number of innovations in the near future. How will the information technology backbone of hospitals manage in a multi-petabyte world that is here today?
Meaningful use, electronic medical records and PACS concepts being implemented and discussed now are in reality obsolete yesterday - severely handicapped at a minimum. These offerings fail to even contemplate the magnitude of a petabyte, even exabyte world. Think about it.
We Did. We Do.
From our genesis at the Mayo Clinic in 2001, we began anticipating and solving the tera-complex patient record. For the first decade of the 21st century, we prepared, built and implemented the information technology platform that would support and not crumble under the weight of medical science velocity.
DICOM and Beyond
Our name represents the need to rethink how healthcare manages and maximizes the clinical value of ALL relevant diagnostic and treatment content. We proudly announced to the world that TeraMedica has incorporated to maximize and unlock trapped value of digital clinical content and manage the maximum number of clinical inputs from all DICOM modalities and systems at a multi-site enterprise scale. However, our patient-centric "tera-thinking" required us to go beyond DICOM and embrace the vast array of standard inputs and clinical applications.
Freedom for Certain Change
Today the average Medicare patient sees seven physicians in four practices. The average hospital coordinates care between 229 physicians and 117 practices just for Medicare beneficiaries.
Comorbidity rates are expected to double for that population in the coming decade along with an accelerating number of cross-correlated digital diagnostic and procedure-based content. It doesn't take a computer scientist to determine that technological freedom is mandatory.
Conversion and Infrastructure costs alone might cripple institutions trying to keep up. Hospitals now need the freedom to adapt to institutional change, competitive pressures, government intervention, information technology evolution, and the continued medical science digital revolution. Vendor independence and innovation openness at a tera-patient record level. Service-oriented architecture, "smart" software and "auto-adapting" systems enable care workflow to continue unimpeded. Massive change is certain. TeraMedica allows you to embrace the future with elegant cost efficiency.