Carestream recently showcased the advanced interoperability of its Clinical Collaboration Platform at the IHE-Europe Connectathon in Luxembourg. The platform successfully passed all integration tests at the Connectathon, including all profiles for its universal viewer, vendor-neutral archive (VNA) and image capture solutions.
“Successful adoption and use of IHE profiles allows healthcare providers to identify and share diverse patient clinical data to help clinicians make diagnostic and treatment decisions,” said Meir Cohen, interoperability and research and development group manager at Carestream. “Our goal is to help our customers implement efficient, standards-based sharing of data and images that is agnostic to applications, data formats, protocols or geography. As one of the first VNA suppliers to implement HL7’s new FHIR framework (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), we will continue to adopt open standards like those endorsed by IHE, HL7 and DICOM in our vendor-neutral archiving, image capture and universal viewer technologies.”
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise promotes the coordinated use of established standards to address clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Suppliers who successfully pass IHE testing requirements are recorded in the IHE International Connectathon Results database. The IHE Connectathon gives companies the opportunity to test their use of IHE profiles across a variety of domains, including radiology, cardiology, pathology, patient care devices, patient care coordination, pharmacy, laboratory, dental and IT infrastructure. Almost 80 companies participated in the Connectathon testing this year, including more than 100 systems and over 300 participants.
Complementing a provider’s existing departmental PACS, Carestream’s flexible Clinical Collaboration Platform offers a series of optional modules that can bring unstructured data into the clinical workflow and enhance the delivery of patient images and reports to clinicians and to patients.
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