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Healthcare and storage: patient imagery has changed the dynamics of healthcare as we know it today.

Article Excerpt
In the healthcare industry, one of the largest growth areas for storage is as a result of the demand for digital imaging technology and the real time requirements by physicians for access to critical patient information. This demand originally came about as a means to lessen the expense burden of film and subsequent storage of the physical medium. To meet this demand, technologies such as digital imaging matured allowing for faster development and access to the data resulting in more rapid and accurate diagnosis and deeper analysis of a patient's imagery. With the significant growth of the required electronic data and with the advent of health care regulations as well as the associated costs of operational backup/recovery, archiving, and disaster recovery, is it possible that the costs of emerging technologies will exceed the costs associated with the previous method using physical film? Can cost accountability be achieved without loosing the benefits of superior service delivery?

Healthcare Goals and Objectives

The overarching goal to be obtained by moving from physical imagery to electronic imagery is to arrive at a diagnosis swiftly and accurately in order to begin a treatment as quickly as possible. This is to be accomplished with the least risk, affordably and economically.

The key objectives are to offer the highest quality patient care with the least risk by providing a more detailed diagnosis and...

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