Nuance announced today the immediate availability of the Nuance PowerShare Network , the industry’s largest cloud-based medical imaging network that enables providers and patients to coordinate care and share information across disparate health systems, as simply as people exchange information using social networks (while still being secure.)
Previously there was not a solution that allowed providers to easily share images and reports with nonaffiliated organizations. This caused inconsistent and delayed patient care, and added costs for unnecessary reimaging. The Nuance PowerShare Network will help hospitals and teams effectively share information and communicate with each other throughout patients’ continuum of care.
The PowerShare Network is already being used by more than 1,900 provider organizations for sharing images via the cloud. By expanding Nuance’s portfolio with PowerShare, the 1,600+ healthcare organizations that currently use the Nuance PowerScribe solution can immediately leverage their existing investment and begin sharing radiology reports along with images. This simplifies secure health information exchange between multiple providers, patients and disparate systems without costly and time-consuming interfaces, CD production or the need to install additional 3rd party systems
“Organizations are being tasked to communicate efficiently both in and out of their networks to provide clinical insight to physicians beyond one person or office to a much broader team involved in the continuum of care.” said Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) IT and Informatics Committee. “The Nuance PowerShare Network bridges the information sharing challenge physicians face today with a network that supports things we’ve dreamed of doing for years,” he adds.
“The challenge of sharing images with interpretive reports is something we’ve heard about consistently from our customers and EHR partners and we know the PowerShare Network will overcome this major obstacle, helping physicians treat patients more efficiently and effectively,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and strategy, Nuance Communications. “This nationwide network, one that is fully integrated into the EHR workflow and already connected to half of all clinicians producing diagnostic information, is a ground breaking solution that and delivers immediate benefits to our healthcare system.”
“Integrated image and report sharing helps us deliver quality care and drive down costs especially when patients transfer from one facility to another. Whether at their desktop or on their mobile device, our physicians can see the study that was done along with the interpretive report, which provides the information they need to treat the patient and avoid duplicate testing,” says Debbie Gash, vice president and CIO, St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City. “By integrating this with our EHR, PowerShare enables physicians to manage inbound imaging through one point of access and login through our EHR. Physicians in our 11 hospitals and 100-mile radius referral network see this cutting-edge technology as a way to deliver the highest level of patient care,” she adds.
To learn more about the PowerShare Network and the new image sharing solution, visit www.nuance.com/products/
