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Allied Telesis Solutions for Healthcare

Remote Diagnostic Imaging

Allied Telesis is developing an integrated intelligent healthcare image routing solution that will leverage as its foundation a core Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) technology. The main problem today, as we see it, is that the data and images are never where they are needed, when they are needed, and traditional methods are capital intensive and operationally complex.

Allied Telesis’ goal is to address this problem by offering a hosted PACS services through security, local imaging technology, hosted imaging processing and disaster recovery. The platform will provide a dynamic mechanism to encrypt imaging produced by modalities being sent and received from the offsite hosted PACs cloud provider. The solution will also include a local store and forward PACS capability for up to 90 days should there be an issue with the third-party network provider for the local site.

• Hosted PACS allows primary care doctors convenient and secure selective access to get/provide electronic patients’ modality images
• Patients do not have to drive, get a ride, or wait for hours, when only 33% of patients are near acute care facilities
• Routine xray and other modalities can be read by any available expert radiologist(s) at other sites
• Reduces delays in dictation and transcription, reducing the time patients have to wait for results and maximizing radiology department efficiency
• Would allow non-hospital medical physician experts to read reports and give second options in their area of expertise
• Hosted PACS services may allow nearby non-hospital acute care facilities secure access to patients’ critical modality image information in order to provide better care in unfortunate critical emergency situations
• Hosted PACS with patient healthvault portal could allow patients who have emergencies the ability to get upload emergency modalities received from non-hospital facilities added to their personal hosted PACS healthvault and in turn added to EMR system electronically
• No need to have patient or provider pay to get film from non-provider acute care facility and then scan and import to imaging, helps avoid increased expenses
• Hosted PACS can help eliminate paperwork and film between the share of the patients who are not near hospital facilities

Included in the solution is development of a next generation (NG) network appliance hardware and software architecture aimed at the specific development of the following gateways for healthcare electronic records and imaging:

• IHEG - Intelligent Healthcare Enterprise Gateway
  The IHEG connects to and communicates securely via the Internet. It maintains the data hosted on two PACS system in a synchronous relationship to maintain a resilient Hosted PACS architecture.
• IHSFG - Intelligent Healthcare Store and Forward Gateway
  The IHSFG interfaces to the hospital’s imaging system(s) and converts the images and, if required, converts the images to the “open” standards before being stored in the Hosted PACS system. The IHSFG provides the staff in the hospital the ability to view patients’ images stored at the Hosted PACS.
• IHMG - Intelligent Healthcare Mapping Gateway
  The IHMG interfaces with the remote doctor’s IT system and provides the doctor the means to securely access the patient data at the Hosted PACS system. The remote doctor has the capability of centrally storing at the Hosted PACS system any patient’s images that he/she has, thus allowing these images to be shared by any collaborating medical specialist who is allowed access

Beyond the imaging enhancements at the remote doctor’s offices enabled by the iHEG and the iHSFG, the development of the iHMG would allow a connection to be placed at the patient’s home to support remote monitoring devices, providing enhanced medical care to patients while they are in their home.