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There used to be time when for speciality surgical procedures and treatments Indians were travelling overseas, followed by people coming to metros for similar treatments. Now tier-2 and tier-3 cities are gaining ground and super-speciality hospitals are coming across the country and major healthcare providers have big plans to setup hospitals in various corners of India. Health care delivery has evolved dramatically in last decade or so, but same cannot be said about the Healthcare IT (HIT).
Major OEMs are now shipping equipments that are compliant to standards such as DICOM and HL7 as well as sharing information with industry but hospitals need to deploy IT solutions that make this information and images protable across various stake holders within and outside the hospitals such as doctors, administrators, paramedics, insurance provides etc.
Even though there is lot of progress on the front of HIT, still you will find major hospitals across india have “islands” of information that can not be interconnected resulting into manual transportation of data diluting efficacy of automation. In last 2-3 years hospitals have started understanding the importance of HIT and started giving due importance to HIT that it deserves.
The technology for acquiring, storing, retrieving, displaying, and distributing medical images and Patient information has changed dramatically in last few years. The new buzzword is “Enterprise solution” in medical image and information management solutions, wherein digital images from radiology, cardiology, and many other Imaging modalities are seamlessly linked with information from clinical information systems and other databases, and they are accessed seamlessly from a single point.
One of the issues that plagued the progress of Hospital information system/Radiology information systems/Picture archiving and communication systems (HIS/CIS/PACS) integration was a matter of language between Health Level-7 (HL7) and DICOM. The broker solved this barrier—a software and hardware device that accepts HL7 messages from the HIS and RIS then translates the data to produce DICOM messages for transmission to the PACS. The broker provides support for patient and exam information from the RIS to flow to the modality with the help of DICOM Modality Work list. With DICOM protocols the patient images generated on the Medical equipment are transferred to PACS. These Patient Images in PACS has seamless integration with Clinical information systems and/or Hospital Information System.
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