Healthcare Records Management (HRM)

Healthcare providers are required to manage the large volumes of diagnostic data generated in Radiology, Cardiology, Oncology, Pathology, and many other specialties. Naturally, this data is stored in disparate image management systems that generally do not integrate with one another. Many of these systems do not incorporate standards in DICOM or HL7, which can prevent them from interfacing with the wide variety of healthcare IT systems, including a universal EMR or EHR. (Radiology and Cardiology departments are the exception. Having adopted the DICOM standard, these two departments have mature PACS image management systems.)

The lack of integration between systems that manage or store diagnostic data becomes pronounced when Health Management Organizations (HMO) acquire, merge, and consolidate healthcare facilities operations. Some of the challenges these organizations face include:

  • Providing a longitudinal patient view
  • Consolidating disparate PACS systems and managing their large volumes of DICOM data
  • Reducing total cost of ownership – which means controlling the costs of administrative management, storage management, migration, legacy system decommissioning, and information lifecycle management

OpenText can help your healthcare organization address these challenges with our unique clinical repository offering. With OpenText, your organization can bring together silos of clinical content under one institutional infrastructure. By including DICOM objects in the repository, OpenText can deliver a complete patient view, regardless of where and when the patient exam was acquired. In addition, with the OpenText clinical repository solution your EMR or EHR will be complete.

Benefits

  • Complete the EMR or EHR: This solution aggregates unstructured information (including diagnostic images) with structured data so physicians can see a patient’s complete medical record.
  • Reduce integration costs: Leveraging the de facto DICOM and HL7 standards, OpenText integrates with Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Radiology Information Systems (RIS), EMRs, Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) systems, and many other departmental information systems within your healthcare organization.
  • Centralize disparate PACS data: A centralized image archive allows for an easier and less expensive implementation of a highly available data storage management solution.
  • Effectively reduce or eliminate the silos of clinical image data or clinical content repositories through an integrated and shared institutional infrastructure.
  • Comply with regulatory requirements: By apply information lifecycle management, you can manage clinical data it based on its clinical value (which changes over time), improve the availability of information, helps your organization comply regulatory policies (such as HIPAA), and reduce your total cost of ownership in storage management.
  • Enhance patient care: By simplifying the sharing of imaging studies and clinical content between all departments and facilities, your healthcare institution can provide clinicians with the longitudinal patient view they desire – allowing them to make the best patient treatment decisions.