CARESTREAM Clinical Collaboration Platform - 1At the upcoming HIMSS Conference in Chicago, Carestream will demonstrate its new Clinical Collaboration Platform, designed to help providers make diagnostic and treatment decisions by giving them access to diverse patient clinical data.

“One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare IT today is the vast amount of data that exists in siloed systems that limit accessibility,” said Ludovic D’Aprea, Carestream’s general manager for healthcare information solutions. “This type of infrastructure increases costs and makes it difficult to access clinical data, which impedes the quality of diagnostic services.”

While consolidating storage devices with a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) is a solid foundation, “the challenge is to deliver better access and management of unstructured data so that a comprehensive view of patient data can be maintained and distributed to authorized users,” D’Aprea added.

The Clinical Collaboration Platform can be integrated as modules within a provider’s existing IT ecosystem. “Using the latest interoperability standards allows data to be aggregated, which creates a holistic view of the patient,” D’Aprea continued. “This can also mitigate the need for expensive data migration from older systems by federating multiple devices.”

The platform’s modules include a Web-based data ingestion module that searches and “tags” unstructured data at the metadata level, allowing for association with a specific patient and identification of clinical content type. The platform also offers mobile access, an embeddable patient portal, and a real-time business dashboard module for data analytics. Interfaces include XDS adapters, HL7, DICOM, file share and Web services, such as fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR).

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