IBM Brings Patient Archives to Triage

December 5, 2008: IBM is showcasing new combined imaging and archiving technologies, saying it can provide healthcare and research organisations with complete and timely access to critical imaging and diagnostic information, and do it at the point of care regardless of the source, age or location of the information.

Big blue say’s its new Healthcare Image and Information Grid (HIIG) framework couples industry’s most advanced digital medicine archive with a complete view of a patient records, and enables physicians to make better decisions based on more complete information at the precise moment it is needed for a patient’s care.

Built on open standards and IBM’s virtualised and automated Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), the company says that HIIG is a services-oriented solution that provides integrated tools as well as a roadmap for the development of enterprise-wide image enabled medical archives.

“IBM is accomplishing an industry first by offering the most advanced interoperable framework for healthcare systems with the IBM Healthcare Information and Image Grid,” says Dan Pelino, General Manager for IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences. “This award winning solution will enable an integrated view of patient documents and images across the enterprise to be accessed in real time at the point of care.”

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