The Problem:
Imaging is an important part of medical imaging these days. Almost all physicians and health care providers are dependent on reliable and easily accessible imaging to be able to make decisions while taking care of patients. It may be a chest x-ray for the physician in the primary care office, it may be a CT scan at the trauma bay or it make be a coronary angiogram for the cardiothoracic surgeon that he needs to review before operating on patients. In every case, the provider is dependent on the availability of high quality imaging to make the necessary decisions.
Health care has also gotten complex. Smaller hospitals transfer patients to higher levels of hospitals for advanced care. An imaging study may be done at the smaller
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The ER physician gets EKG, blood tests and chest X-ray done and makes a determination of a heart attack. The cardiologist is immediately called who takes the patient to the catheterization lab. The cardiac catheterization and the coronary angiogram is completed and a diagnosis of multivessel coronary artery stenosis is made. Patient needs cardiac surgery in the next few hours to revascularise the heart. There is no cardiac surgery facility in the hospital and the patient needs to be transferred to the regional tertiary center which is about an hour away for cardiac surgery services. The cardiologist calls the cardiac surgeon at the tertiary hospital to get the patient transferred for surgery. The transfer is made expediously and within an hour and a half patient is in the cardiac ICU at the referral hospital for surgery. The coronary angiogram testing is written on a CD and sent along with the patient. However, when the surgeon tries to play the coronary angiogram, it does not play in the computer. It is in a format that is not compatible with computers at the referral hospital. It is about midnight now and there are no IT experts immediately available to help this surgeon review the coronary angiogram. What does the surgeon do……..
Obviously, a good place that health informatics can help resolve an important issue in complex patient care. The IT- healthcare play a very important role in reducing health
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This would save the time taken writing the CD and then there are chances that the CD was not sent with the patient!!!!!
The solution is a Cloud- based image sharing network. (Cloud Computing Services)
Cloud computing is computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow the centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid
The cloud computing services provide applications from a PACS server that can be managed outside the hospital and this helps the DICOM software will not need to be installed on the computers and hence reduce cost.
The Cloud network has to be Universal, convenient, and secured communication. The images should be able to communicate remotely effectively to ensure patients getting the best and fast care. The Security is a very integral component in this. Importance should be given to the fact that the network has to be secure and in compliance with the HIPAA
The conversation around the rising costs of health care continues to be a high priority topic of discussion from consumer all the way up to the government. There are many products and services that contribute to the rising costs, as well as some responsibility left to practicing providers who choose to use high dollar radiology services for patient care. There is an overuse of high dollar radiology services in lieu of using conservative treatment and it is important to medically manage those persons individually with medical algorithms. The paper will cover this information as well as how to implement the solutions and the costs associated with the implementation as well as discuss the benefits to the organization as well as offer theoretical and practical reflections for implementing the best solution offered.
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The cloud computing is still under development but if it can manage to maintain information privacy and confidentiality than it will become revolutionary in healthcare field. And we never know, in future science and technology might introduce more advanced level of apps and service with enhanced level of privacy and security measures.
Improves access to patient data. This is much easier and faster than paper files which can be easily lost or misplaced.
To begin with, how has technology changed the field of radiology? Since the discovery of X-radiation there has been a need and desire for studying the human body and the diseases without actually any intervention. Over the past fifty years there has been a revolution in the field of radiology affecting medicine profoundly. “The ability to produce computers powerful enough to reconstruct accurate body images, yet small enough to fit comfortably in the radiology department, has been the major key to this progress”(Gerson 66). The core of radiology’s vast development consists of four diagnostic techniques: computed tomography (CT), digital subtraction angiography (DSA), ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These methods of diagnostic imaging provide accurate information that was not seen before. Amid this information advancement, radiologists have broadened their role of diagnostician. Gerson writes, “With the advent of computer-enhanced imagery and new interventional techniques, these physicians are able to take an active part in performing therapeutic procedures”(66). A radiology breakthrough in 1972 was computed tomography discovered by Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack. Unlike standard radiography, computed tomography would spin the X-ray tube 360 degrees and inversely another 360 degrees while the patient ta...
The growth rate of radiological positions have an estimated value of 15-21% between 2012 and 2022, which is higher than normal. The growth rate is so high because of the growing number of aging people in America. This leads to the increase in salary of the average radiologist which is now at a whopping 350k. However, this is the result of long hours, night shifts, and a lower amount of vacations. This also depends where the radiologist works. He could work at a hospital, with the government, or own a private practice. With the new technology, scans can be done anywhere with a computer, high-resolution monitor, and internet. This practice is called telemedicine and can be done in even remote locations. These three factors are important to the everyday life of a radiologist and need to be considered
The healthcare industry’s migration to the cloud is inevitable—driven by an irresistible blend of competitive realities and patient demand. As in any major change in business or technology, early movers tend to reap the benefits. As consumers are becoming more tech savvy, the demand for information at the touch of their fingertips is also becoming more demanding. The move to cloud computing from a healthcare standpoint is taking precedence above the old fashioned way of healthcare.
Our hospital has recently changed over to Epic after using MEDITECH for their EMR charting system. EPIC has become one of the most use electronic health record (EHR) system in the U.S. that support the secure flow of patient data between Epic and other software systems, hardware systems, and peripheral devices (HealthIT, n.d). Since our hospital was using MEDITECH before, our computers system are from Dell product. Epic software can be use with any PC software such as HP, Dell, IBM, ect. However, for the best technologies support, HP products are more compatible Epic. From servers’ support system to storage support, and virtual desktop (VDI) infrastructure, HP products can provides the requirement for Epic system (OST, n.d). To get the best solution for Epic, Intel Xeon and the Linux operating system can provide that. “Linux running on the latest generation of Intel Xeon processor-based servers offers a solution, providing mission-critical capablitites” (Intel, n.d). Based on Epic software, it provides a scalable and highly resilient EMR solution running on affordable Intel Xeon processor-based servers and the Linux system (Intel, n.d). The Open Systems Technologies (OST) did a 3 months test at a 120-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York with the Epic software. They combined Linux and Intel Xeon processor-based servers, and the result provided the EMR infrastructure need with flawless implementation (Intel, n.d). So with the HP product and the combination of Linux, this
Technology has affected almost every facet of our lives. Thanks to the internet, which has reformed our lives in a great way, shaping our personal lives as much as our working world and leisure time. It enables us to perform tasks cheaply and effectively that required great amount of time and were quite expensive to perform in the past. The world of healthcare is no exception, where IT is facilitating to shape the mode in which the diseases are diagnosed, and care to the patients is delivered. The e-Health facilities we are having in access today, started their revolutionary journey almost 40 years ago with the vision to provide best medical care and treatment to the patients by providing advanced treatment procedures and options to the health care practitioners .
When they wanted to save photos online instead of on your personal computer, they are able to use “cloud computing” service. Cloud computing means that the transfer of computing data or information over the internet. Not just to keep data in your personal computer, they are able to save the data on internet server to open their data in any computer. In this report we will walk through about what is cloud computing, what kinds of model did cloud computing have, types of cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, and security.
Images of human anatomy have been around for more than 500 years now. From the sketches created by Leonardo da Vinci, to the modern day Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan, images have played a great role in medicine. Evolution in medical imaging brought together people from various disciplines such as Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, a collaboration which has further contributed to healthcare as a whole. Modern day imaging improves medical workflows by facilitating a non-invasive insight into human body, accurate and timely diagnostics, and persistence of an analysis.
The quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare today is greatly influenced by computer technology & information systems. Healthcare has evolved dramatically over the last 50 years and continues to advance in methods of providing patients with the most current treatments to date. As computer technology advances so will the face of healthcare. The future of computer technology that will affect the future of healthcare in the next 20 years will be nothing but amazing.
Cloud storage basic terms, is a way to save information to the web that can managed data storage. Cloud computing services are online services, which store this information to a safe and secure location online. It’s offered a quicker, easier and safer backup than conventional methods of file storage such as bookshelves or cardboard files.
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Cloud computing is a type of computing that depends on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal device to handle applications.