Three examples of the cloud empowering healthcare from HIMSS
Learn how our cloud partners are helping health organizations further their mission
It was another successful edition of HIMSS this year. Our booth was packed, and people seemed especially interested in seeing how health organizations are furthering their mission with the scale, efficiency, and cost savings of the cloud. In case you missed HIMSS16—or, like me, you were hard-pressed to absorb everything while you were there—here are three cloud solutions for healthcare that were showcased by our partners:
MyHealthDirect
Seventy-seven percent of patients think that the ability to book, change, or cancel appointments online is important according to a recent Accenture survey. Health organizations can provide the convenience patients expect with a cloud-based MyHealthDirect scheduling solution. They can also make it easier for health professionals to schedule referrals with MyHealthDirect referral management tools. And MyHealthDirect solutions are (HIPAA) HITRUST certified to help health organizations maintain compliance.
Large health systems, providers, and payers in the US use MyHealthDirect to help connect patients with the right provider at the right time. Making it easy to schedule appointments improves patient satisfaction, care coordination, and outcomes, and it allows practices to grow.
Even if you’re not ready to move your EMR to the cloud yet, you can take advantage of MyHealthDirect to provide online scheduling convenience. MyHealthDirect’s cloud-based consumer and referral solutions allow real-time integration with any Electronic Medical Record (EMR) or Practice Management Solution (PMS).
BC Platforms
The cloud offers computing performance, data storage and analytics, and cost efficiencies never before possible—and these capabilities are enabling unprecedented opportunities to advance medicine. Case in point: BC Platforms, a pioneer in bioinformatics and genome data management, offers cloud services that can help provide answers to today’s most groundbreaking research questions in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Its technology transforms data into scientific discoveries.
BC Platforms develops enabling technology that can integrate proprietary genomic data, molecular data, and clinical information from individual patients and population studies in novel and useful ways—in both academia and industry. Its platform can combine data from a variety of internal, partner, and public sources to help further the field of personalized, predictive medicine. Check out some of the exciting use cases.
Nasuni
Health organizations face an ever-increasing need for medical imaging data storage. For example, at Austin Radiological Association (ARA), mammograms took up about 7 terabytes of storage, but that footprint was expected to double within a year. Not only are there more imaging files but files are getting much larger as imaging moves from 2D to 3D. The average file size for a standard mammography image is 19 MB, while the average file size for a 3D tomography image is 392 MB.
To keep up with the exponential growth in medical imaging data, ARA turned to a HIPAA- compliant cloud solution from Nasuni. It’s helping ARA scale data storage at lower costs—with the right security and redundancy.
Health organizations can have the accessibility and flexibility of public cloud storage with the local performance and security of on-site storage with Nasuni Cloud NAS. It combines local appliances with cloud storage to provide unlimited capacity and on-demand scalability. Health organizations also benefit from automatic protection, centralized management of files across all office locations, and more.
Watch this webinar to hear how ARA addressed its file growth problem, while also delivering local performance and mobile access to end users through Nasuni Cloud NAS.
If you’d like to take advantage of cloud services for online scheduling, genome analysis, medical imaging storage or analysis, or any of the other exciting possibilities brought about by the cloud, feel free to drop us a line via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
