NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lifeIMAGE, the nation’s largest medical image exchange platform that enables imaging data interoperability across healthcare networks, providers, and patients, today announced that “Enterprise Imaging 2015: Strategies, Options, and Vendor Performance,” December 2015 © 2015 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.www.KLASresearch.com, a recent report from KLAS Enterprises, Inc., found lifeIMAGE to be the market leader in image exchange. To uncover these findings, KLAS conducted in-depth surveys with nearly 100 hospitals and health systems, 78 percent of them ranging in size from 200-1,000-plus beds, and 62 percent of them using electronic medical records from either Epic Systems Corp. or Cerner Corp.
“Throughout our country, patients and providers are crying out for improvements in diagnosis and treatment that can only be achieved by enabling and simplifying image exchange across all clinical specialties,” said lifeIMAGE CEO and President Matthew Michela. “KLAS Research confirms that we are meeting those needs at the health system enterprise level, as providers praised lifeIMAGE both for our experience with large organizations and leading commitment to developing a truly interoperable medical image sharing network.”
Provider organizations of all sizes find that lifeIMAGE is able to meet their image exchange needs, wrote Monique Rasband, author of “Enterprise Imaging 2015.” According to one hospital executive quoted in the report, “lifeIMAGE is good for us ... because of their early installs and their experience with academic sites,”1 referencing the scalability of lifeIMAGE for small and large organizations.
The report also showed that health systems are using image sharing across many specialties. In commentary offered by health systems in the report, another provider remarked, “We really like lifeIMAGE . . . We are able to view an image of the stroke protocol from anywhere and determine if a patient needs to be treated right away.”2
lifeIMAGE offers a comprehensive approach to enterprise image sharing: Onsite image exchange network capabilities within a health system’s network integrated with vendor-neutral cloud capabilities for sharing globally. Image sharing is essential for diagnosis and treatment by all specialties, including cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, radiology, and burn care. At an increasing rate, large U.S. health systems are providing image sharing access to all clinicians and patients. lifeIMAGE also makes it possible for patients to access exams by promoting standards-based personal health record (PHR) applications. For more information on the lifeIMAGE 4.0 platform visitwww.lifeimage.com.
About lifeIMAGE
lifeIMAGE is the nation’s largest interoperable medical image sharing network that helps healthcare professionals access their patients’ imaging records, regardless of where exams are performed or stored. It has been adopted by more than 120 multi-site health systems across the country to improve care coordination for patient consultations, referrals and transfers. This enables providers to improve the quality and timeliness of care, expand referral business, and eliminate wasteful spending.
1 “Enterprise Imaging 2015: Strategies, Options, and Vendor Performance” December 2015. © 2015 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com
2 “Enterprise Imaging 2015: Strategies, Options, and Vendor Performance” December 2015. © 2015 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com