GE shares health data across Canada with digital image repository
GE Healthcare has completed a digital imaging repository (DI-r) that connects hospitals and medical centers throughout southwestern Ontario, Canada, enabling the sharing of patient health data across the region.
Twenty-six hospital organizations in the Erie St. Clair and South West Local Health Integration Networks are now able to share filmless diagnostic image exams between their facilities. The archive contains approximately 2.7 million exams and grows by about 120,000 new exams each month, the company stated.
The exams can be accessed by acute care facilities in the two LHINs and clinicians also can compare images to previous scans, GE said.
Twenty-six hospital organizations in the Erie St. Clair and South West Local Health Integration Networks are now able to share filmless diagnostic image exams between their facilities. The archive contains approximately 2.7 million exams and grows by about 120,000 new exams each month, the company stated.
The exams can be accessed by acute care facilities in the two LHINs and clinicians also can compare images to previous scans, GE said.