Top Healthcare Trends to Discuss at ECR 2013

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Massimo Angileri, WW General Manager, Healthcare Information Solutions, Carestream

We’re excited to meet with our European colleagues to discuss industry trends, and what their health IT and radiology needs are in 2013.  On account of the rapidly changing climate of the healthcare industry across Europe, we’re more inspired than ever to learn what people are seeing and experiencing in the field. These discussions are sure to bring up invigorating conversations at the event. Based on what has been seen after RSNA 2012 and early into 2013, over the next few weeks we’re going to feature the top five healthcare trends that we’ll be exploring at our booth—stand 211, Expo B.

First up: healthcare IT.

#1 Healthcare IT

According to Aunt Minnie Europe, the radiology PACS and RIS markets in Western Europe is maturing and inviting a new set of products in the form of cloud-based services and software-as-a-service offerings. It is these new technologies that are improving costs for organizations and allowing the easier transportation of data between facilities.

Mobile capabilities have never been more important or requested more often from patients. The ability to access medical records via mobile devices such as an iPad is changing the way that patients use healthcare information, as well as the patient-doctor relationship since these patient portals are able to provide better access to providers.

Carestream’s Healthcare IT Presence at ECR 2013:

The MyVue patient portal is our patient-empowering platform that enables electronic access and management of X-ray exams. Patients can then share that data with specialists and other healthcare professionals. Easy to use, it reduces the time and cost of outputting medical exams onto DVD/CDs or other physical storage formats for medical records.

Our new lesion management tools (see video demo) enhance accuracy in assessing changes in cancerous lesions as part of diagnosis and treatment for oncology patients.

You’ll see enhancements to Carestream’s RIS including the storage and tracking of radiation dose information and other capabilities that lay the groundwork to support cumulative dose tracking – an important global patient care initiative.