Inside Digital Health May 30, 2019
Healthcare has incredible diagnostic imaging technologies, from CT scans to 3D heart MRIs, which make it possible to diagnose and treat disease states that used to be undetectable. Unfortunately, these images have historically only been accessible through siloed imaging informatics systems that are unintuitive, unhelpful and non-interoperable. In the past, these meticulously acquired images were often highly inaccessible at the point of care and have been incredibly challenging to integrate usefully with other clinical data. This is, thankfully, no longer the case.
The ONC Proposed Rule on Promoting Interoperability provides an opportunity to take advantage of technological advances that now routinely facilitate the incorporation of diagnostic imaging into a wide variety of data systems, eliminate obsolete processes such as transporting...