SIIM 2012 Hot Topics – Vendor Neutral Archiving and Imaging Sharing
The proliferation of hospital consolidations as well as facility integration projects supporting HIE and ACO efforts made vendor neutral archiving and image access for referring physicians and patients...
View ArticleFrom Departmental Silos to Streamlined Patient-Centric Workflow
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream A recent Auntminnie article spotlights the challenges of storing documents in PACS or RIS and encourages healthcare facilities to...
View ArticleHIMSS 2013: Talking VNAs & Other IT Trends with Brian Casey of AuntMinnie.com
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream Vendor Neutral Archives (VNAs) was a trendy topic at HIMSS13, and we at Carestream can attest to that popularity. To provide an...
View ArticleWhat is a Vendor-Neutral Archive and How Can it Benefit Healthcare Facilities?
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream Workflow is everything in a hospital. Not only do doctors need to perfect surgical processes, but informational processes must be...
View ArticleSIIM 2013: PACS Behavior Changes & the HIE: What You Need to Know
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream The Future Proofed Archiving – strategies to accept and store any image, anytime, anywhere track at SIIM 2013 is, according to the...
View ArticleUKRC 2013: Vendor Neutrality and Interoperability—What Does that Mean for You?
Ignace Wautier, Business Development Management Northern Europe, HCIS, Carestream In a renewal market such as the UK, the availability of archived data is one of the biggest concerns of the NHS trusts....
View ArticleA Retrospective Look at SIIM 2013 Reveals Dramatic Changes on the Horizon
Robert Salmon, Carestream Health A retrospective look at SIIM 2013 reveals some interesting observations. First let’s acknowledge that this organization already tackles the challenge of marrying two...
View ArticleVNA Usage Trends and Medical Imaging Storage Needs
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream According to a recent report published by IHS, the compound annual growth of VNA storage worldwide from 2011 to 2017 is expected to be...
View ArticleRSNA 2013: Working to Improve Medical Imaging through the Power of Partnerships
Norman Yung, Chief Marketing Officer, Carestream We’re about six short weeks away from the world’s biggest event in medical imaging. RSNA 2013 promises to be another year full of impressive displays...
View ArticleRSNA 2013: Three Considerations for Mixing “Ologies” in Image-Enabled EHRs
Doug Rufer, Director Technical Marketing and Clinical Sales Engineering, Carestream Many sites that have successfully implemented certified EHRs have evaluated or potentially integrated a medical...
View ArticleMeaningful Use, VNAs, and Addressing the Challenges Each Present
Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 has been a challenge for many healthcare facilities throughout the U.S., but that appears to be especially true for private practice radiologists. Industry statistics show...
View ArticleECR 2014: How Vendor-Neutral Data Storage Can Break Down Department Silos
Saskia Groeneveld, Wordwide Marketing Manager, HCIS, Carestream Be it imaging or healthcare information systems, the ultimate goal is of the physicians is to provide the highest quality of care to the...
View ArticleMonash Health Benefits from a Vendor-Neutral Archive
As part of its RIS/PACS implementation, Monash Health in Victoria, Australia, has implemented a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) to store, secure, and access its medical images and other clinical data....
View ArticleThree Examples of Vendor Neutral Archives Transforming Healthcare Workflow
Doug Rufer, Director Technical Marketing and Clinical Sales Engineering, Carestream Vendor neutral archives (VNA) can transform workflow across the healthcare enterprise and should be seen as more than...
View ArticleThe Role of a Fully Integrated RIS-PACS: Dream or Reality?
The evolution of PACS makes it so radiologists are looking for more dynamic systems. The EHR is playing an increasing role in the management of patients. In the U.S., according to a recent NHCS Data...
View ArticleRadiology’s Response to Healthcare Consolidation – Step One: The Global Worklist
Click the image to learn more about Vue Connect and download a presentation about enterprise image access. If you’re like me, your day starts with a scan of healthcare headlines that are packed with...
View ArticleBeyond Storage: Realizing VNA’s Full Potential Starts with Redefining Its...
Long-term storage. Data redundancy. Easy integration. Freedom from PACS vendor lock-in. Reduced risk of data migration. These are the topics that usually ignite a vendor neutral archiving discussion...
View ArticleClinical Collaboration: The Evolution of the VNA
Marianne Matthews, chief editor, Imaging Economics, interviews Cristine Kao, global marketing manager, Healthcare Information Solutions, Carestream, about our new Clinical Collaboration platform and...
View ArticleHow a VNA Unifies Clinical Data Throughout an Enterprise
The archive preserves information in a vendor-neutral format, and is available across the enterprise for access. Mater Health Services in Queensland, Australia, is well known for incorporating...
View ArticleThe Future of the VNA: From Centralised Storage to an Information Exchange
Many hospital organisations, particularly in Europe, are implementing VNAs to store non-DICOM content as well using the Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) standard; the XDS standard also provides...
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