Health Imaging Exchange - Bridging the Chasm

The Environmental Challenge

Given recent increased focus to patient-centered solutions and the necessity to deliver the longitudinal electronic patient record, new concepts and technologies are required to enable semantic interoperability. The healthcare market, now fueled by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, 2009), must bridge the chasm between the structured and unstructured data worlds. Sbridge for hie - web usetructured data elements are found in the provider-based HIS / CIS / EMR solutions. Unstructured large-scale data reside in proprietary silos, across the 24 specialties in PACS Multimedia and Reports systems.

In recent years, the advent of master patient indexes (MPI) and Health Information Exchanges (HIE) has led to the unprecedented ability to present portable cross-provider patient records  but only from the structured data perspective. At the same time, across the chasm, the clinical imaging realm has remained siloed in proprietary format across 24 specialties.

Historically, medical imaging and other unstructured content such as multimedia (MPEG), documents (PDF),  and medical Images (DICOM), have been ignored or delayed in this HIE arena. To increase physician acceptance of technology, we believe a picture paints a thousand words.

The Solution

TeraMedica’s truly unique Health Imaging Exchange (HIE) bridges the chasm between traditional electronic medical records and PACS systems and delivers a direct connection to MPI's and Health Information Exchange systems. This unique integration to the resident Health Information Exchange, now fully loaded with clinical images, completes the comprehensive patient record across IDN, State or Nation. The TeraMedica Solution offers:

  • Customer-Centric Health Imaging Exchange
  • Rapid Access to all patient images
  • A Unique Direct Connection to the Master Patient Index or Health Information Exchange
  • One Single Access Point to a Longitudinal Imaging Record
  • Standard desktop review tools for Documents and Multimedia 
  • Zero-Download-Embedded Viewer for Bandwidth Optimization
  • Programmable Physician-Centric review and management policies
  • Seamless Integration to a Patient-Centered Vendor Neutral Architecture

The Benefits

  • Rapid access to patient-centered DICOM, clinical multimedia data and other objects in a cross-provider, patient-centered context.
  • Easy Optimization of hospital and ambulatory electronic medical records within health information exchanges.
  • Improved data access for each customer, leading to increased physician acceptance and better clinical outcome.

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