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Secure image sharing through vendor neutral archives

Health systems face a growing shortage of radiologists while the demand for diagnostic imaging services steadily increases. As a result, patients wait longer for diagnoses, which impacts the quality of patient care.

A proven way to mitigate the volume of image reporting requests is to reduce the need for repeat scans for non-urgent cases. This can be achieved through secure image sharing among healthcare organizations through vendor neutral archives (VNAs).

VNAs facilitate access to second opinions and faster, more accurate results for difficult cases, improving the patient experience and reducing costs.

Our diagnostic image exchange platform enables the following outcomes:

  • Capture radiographic and non-radiographic images in services such as cardiology and endoscopy
  • Record surgical videos and capture autopsy film and wound care photos
  • Facilitate communication between multidisciplinary teams
  • Increase regulatory compliance through consistent application of information governance and retention policies across different image types
  • Reduce audit exposure and ensure disaster recovery resilience
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Enabling interoperability with standards-based DICOM and VNA solutions

Many healthcare organizations are locked into proprietary picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) that make interoperability more difficult.

As a trusted provider of digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) and VNA solutions for leading health systems in North America and Europe, we have a keen understanding of IHE XDS/XDS-I, DICOM, and DICOMweb technical protocols and preferences for work patterns to be delivered to radiologist desktops.

Additionally, CGI has successfully enabled interoperability for PACS without “ripping and replacing” them. As a result:

  • clinicians continue to use familiar applications
  • clinical workflow is not disrupted
  • patients are irradiated less

 

Proven outcomes

CGI is an experienced medical imaging system integrator globally, partnering with clients to achieve the following outcomes:

  • Shared DICOM and non-DICOM repository solution for 27 hospitals in Finland.
  • Shared diagnostic imaging repository solution for 26 hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area. 

Share and streamline workflows

Working with leading technology partners, we have created standards-based shared systems that transform image access and workflow to distribute reporting workloads across a community of radiologists, theoretically based anywhere.

Solutions can be managed or hosted by the client or CGI. Learn how our diagnostic imaging solutions can transform your image access and workflows.

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