eHealth Week 2012 ONSITE GUIDE - World of Health IT

e H e a l t h W e e k 2 0 1 2 O N S I T E G U I D E
Conference Sessions
Tuesday, 8 May l Late Afternoon Parallel Sessions
16:45–18:00
16:45–18:00 Hall C1, Room M3
CIO2 | Economic and Clinical Evidence for Improvements by IT:
Does IT Really Improve Care and Reduce Costs?
Moderator: Dr. Peter Gocke, CIO, Amedes Group, Germany
Co-Moderator: Nard Schreurs, Journalist at Computerworld, Norway
Hospital IT on the Danish Border – Boon or Bane of the Cost Cutting Approach
Dr. Christian Utler, MBA, Medical Director, Germany
Benefit Analysis of Implementing PACS Platforms Across the English NHS Hospital System
Guy Staals, Oracle, Senior Director, Healthcare Industries Business Unit at Oracle EMEA, COCIR, The Netherlands
Charles Gutteridge, National Clinical Director for Informatics, Department of Health, UK
The presentation provided by COCIR will be introduced Guy Staals, an Oracle representative, who will set the context by explaining
the advantages of interconnecting heterogeneous PACS environments for the exchange of valuable patient information. Establishing
Vendor-Neutral Imaging Repositories at the regional level – like in the NHS case – can normalize the imaging and reporting data
and provide a secured standardized data access, data integrity, availability and lower TCO.
Guy Staals will set the context by explaining the advantages of interconnecting heterogeneous PACS environments for the exchange
of valuable patient information in research, enterprise, regional or national settings. Establishing Vendor-Neutral Imaging Repositories
at the regional level – like in the NHS case – can normalize the imaging and reporting data and provide a secured standardized
data access, data integrity, availability and lower TCO. Although not fully available at the time of the UK deployment this interoperability
prefigures quite well what can be accomplished today (e.g. with IHE XDS-I profiles and DICOM).
Beginning 2006 PACS platforms were implemented across all NHS hospitals in England. Since 2009 all hospital radiology departments
(128 NHS hospital Trusts = 500 hospitals) are film-free and use a variety of PACS/RIS systems. As of March 2011, £200M cash
releasing savings and £600M non-cash releasing benefits have been realised. Total savings of £1billion are forecasted for the life
of the project. Clinical benefits include reduced duplication of imaging studies; reduced patient exposure to radiation, patient centered
service transformation and reduced errors in reporting. Additional quality benefits include improved turnaround times and reduced
times for imaging, image transfer across organisations and image archiving.
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