Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE), according to Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting who presented during a webinar on Jan. 26 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and GNAX Health.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Health Imaging News Portals | Healthcare IT | HIMSS: Vendor-neutral archive can solve PACS problems
Friday, January 27, 2012
HIMSS: Solve your PACS problems with a vendor-neutral archive
Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE), according to Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting who presented during a webinar on Jan. 26 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and GNAX Health.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Archiving of source data
At the conference on PACS and regional data exchanged organized by MedicalPHIT at Papendal, the Netherlands, dr. den Heeten presented on why to archive source data. Storing all source data produced by all modalities would be extremely difficult and expensive. However, This presentation had its focus on mammography screening. Each mammogram is first processed into the human interpretable format. These processed images are stored into the archive. However, the original images are better for computer processing and computer aided detection.
To achieve this they want to start using a Vendor Neutral Archive for storage of the original, raw, mammography data for research.
Den Heeten claims that using the raw data can optimize the current breast cancer screening and allow for a more individualized, patient-centered, screening.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
RSNA: Merge shows off Honeycomb and iConnect
Merge Healthcare showcased their move to the cloud with Merge Honeycomb and demonstrated its suite of interoperability tools at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
RSNA: Vendor Neutral Archiving
One of the buzzwords on the RSNA that many companies are using is VNA (Vendor Neutral Archiving). With vendor neutral archiving, the storage is taken care off in a cloud oriented architecture. Any image can be stored into the VNA secure and consolidated regardless of the vendor of the data producing entity (e.g. A PACS).
Advantages can be found in easy sharing of images between healthcare institutes, but also in the fact that PACS replacement can be achieven easier since all data is available in the VNA.
A whitepaper on VNA is availble from Carestream Health
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