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From Silo'd PACS to Enterprise Imaging Archive
- Teacher: Campus Admin
Learn how a VNA solution will migrate Silo’d PACS to an Enterprise Image Archive, enable healthcare institutions to take control of the images and the storage management, and drive a universal clinical viewer. Without an enterprise imaging plan, healthcare institutions will face a data management problem and costly data migrations. More important, the physicians need a universal way to access and view the images, securely, anywhere and at anytime.
The Evolution of VNA
- Teacher: Campus Admin
The term Vendor Neutral ARCHIVE is used by many software vendors, including PACS vendors, to identify the archiving function of their product. This is the component used to reliably manage, store, retrieve, and query medical images and related information. Unfortunately, there is no official definition of the functionality of a VNA. A useful definition of the comprehensive Vendor Neutral ARCHITECTURE is that it copes with medical and consumer standards while being agnostic to database, operating system, image generating device and infrastructure. VNA offerings vary from vendor to vendor. The result is confusion among users due to the lack of a comparison of VNA functionality and features.
Requirements of a VNA
- Teacher: Campus Admin
This course proposes a definition of a VNA that identifies different architecture levels and their specific functionality. The various components that make up the core of a healthcare image and information management system will be discussed. This course also provides the key advantages of a VNA compared to a proprietary solution.
DICOM Basics
- Teacher: Campus Admin
In this course we will define what DICOM is and how it has evolved. We will also explore how DICOM is used daily in the healthcare realm. We will also Identify the 6 aspects of DICOM and discuss the standard parts of DICOM, DICOM Terminology & Entity Relationships, SOP (Service Object Pair) Class and IOD's (Information Object Definitions).
VNAs from a CMIO Perspective
Learn how Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA) can help with the many problems facing the health care system, based upon a CMIO's perspective. Discover what is changing in the world of medicine today. Learn how providers can attain easier access to all imaging data from within the EMR. Find out more about what problems and roadblocks a CMIO and CIO face on a daily basis and possible solutions.
Introduction to DICOM II
This is a continuation of our DICOM Basics course, the second in our DICOM series. In this course we will further explore IOD's (Information Object Definitions), Tags, Groups, Elements and Sequences, DICOM Encoding, Transfer Syntaxes (Endian and compression) and more.