by Dave Wilson on November 7, 2011
Being in the healthcare space my entire career, I had no idea what all the fuss was about when Big Data started to be the topic of the day. Sounded like a large file to me – mammography images can be 60Mb each – and aside from the potential joke about large mammo images, what was the big deal?
by Dave Wilson on October 28, 2011
Now I don’t like to steal titles or concepts from other companies but at my last company we had a concept of a Multi-site Maturity Model and I think the same “maturity model” concept works for healthcare and our cloud offering. It took a little while for this to kick in (thanks to my colleague Linda Xu for helping me see the light) but I think that our vision for where the cloud will take us is most appropriate for healthcare. Let me explain.
by Bill Burns on September 13, 2011
In today’s hypercompetitive healthcare environments, driving cost control is paramount and healthcare providers, payers and vendors must reduce cost while increasing the quality of care. Patient-centric technologies are at the core of the solution. These technologies necessitate clinical integration using health information exchanges and associated components. Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) was created to address this enterprise-centric view for all data types, not just medical imaging. HCR is a real time “active” repository thatconsolidates data from a variety of clinical sources to present a unified view of a single patient. It is optimized to allow clinicians to retrieve data for a single patient rather than identify a population of patients with common characteristics or facilitate the management of a specific clinical department.
by Dave Wilson on May 6, 2011
These days it seems you can’t go anywhere without seeing “Cloud” mentioned. Microsoft has their “To the Cloud” commercials on television. The last healthcare tradeshow I attended had cloud messaging everywhere and one vendor even hung fluffy cotton balls from their stand.
by Bill Burns on February 21, 2011
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog will know Dave Wilson as a co-author for Storage STAT. Dave came from the hospital environment, so he really brings a valuable perspective that is customer-centric.
by Dave Wilson on February 18, 2011
When you spend as much time in an airport as I do, you will appreciate it when I say that you meet all kinds of interesting people when you are playing hurry-up-and-wait. More and more, I spend my time chatting to those around me. Sometimes I learn something and sometimes I teach something – like recently while sitting on the tarmac, I struck up a conversation with my seatmate, who like me traveled in a suit with a single carry-on suitcase and a laptop bag easily accessible once the seat belt light is turned off.
by Dave Wilson on February 8, 2011
A Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), according to Mike Cannavo of Image Management Consultants, is defined as a standards-based archive that works independent of the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) provider storing all data in non-proprietary, interchange formats. A VNA also provides context management so that information can be transferred seamlessly between disparate PACS. A VNA provides the following requisite functionality:
by Bill Burns on January 11, 2011
Having cleared the holidays and now firmly back at work, I finally have found some time to reflect on this year’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago.
by Dave Wilson on January 10, 2011
In the coming weeks and months the importance of metadata in healthcare will start to evolve and we will see an increasing amount of discussion and product development start to occur. What is metadata and why will it be so important? That is the point of this post.
by Dave Wilson on December 9, 2010
Huh? The definition of innovation according to Merriam Webster dictionary is:
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