Key highlights
– GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network.
– Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and collaboration tools under a single platform.
– Industry research indicates that a solution like Edison Datalogue can help increase clinical productivity by up to 30 percent, saving up to $1 million annually through consolidation and up to $50,000 per year in collaboration costs.
With consolidation and the ongoing evolution of the healthcare sector, digitalization within hospital systems has been fragmented across different care pathways, specialties, and even device types. These data siloes create a significant barrier to patient care and increased complexity for hospital systems and clinicians – limiting the ability to share patient information to improve clinical treatment, creating increased costs and lost efficiency. Ultimately, it is the patient who loses.
Helping Health Systems Break Down Siloes and Improve the Care Experience
To solve this critical challenge, GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and collaboration tools under a single platform.
The Explosion of Healthcare Data
The amount of data generated within the healthcare industry is exploding. On average, one hospital stores 50 petabytes of data and this figure is growing 48 percent per year. But this data, such as patient images, often resides across multiple departments, clinics and hospitals, making it time-consuming and inefficient to stitch the various types and sources of data together – hindering how clinicians collaborate across the care pathway.
Potential Impact of Edison Datalogue for Healthcare Organizations
Edison Datalogue will help speed up this process, reduce pressures on IT departments and enhance the care delivery network by supporting clinician collaboration and providing health systems with a more holistic clinical, operational and financial view of their data. Industry research indicates that a solution like Edison Datalogue can help increase clinical productivity by up to 30 percent, saving up to $1 million annually through consolidation and up to $50,000 per year in collaboration costs.
Powering A Unified View of Patient Images & Documents for Clinicians
A key element of Edison Datalogue is GE Healthcare’s VNA, which provides a unified view of patient images and documents that help inform critical treatment decisions. Edison Datalogue also offers new collaboration applications that help reduce duplicate imaging, avoid unnecessary patient transfers, lower CD distribution costs and enhance referral relationships. If providers already have an image exchange facility, most do not support other collaboration use cases. Edison Datalogue seamlessly enables clinical care collaboration between the required physicians and clinical specialists through a secure and standards-based IT system that promotes uninterrupted clinical workflow and interoperability.
Edison Datalogue is vendor neutral and can act as a single source for clinicians to collaborate around a complete patient “picture” – helping them make smarter, faster decisions, reduce costs and improve outcomes. Edison Datalogue is a scalable solution that brings together GE Healthcare’s collaboration apps into a secure, HIPAA compliant and GDPR-enabled service, with tiered pricing for customers, depending on requirements.
How Edison Datalogue Was Developed
The new applications on Edison Datalogue were developed using Edison, GE Healthcare’s intelligence platform. The platform uses an extensive catalog of healthcare-specific services to enable both GE Healthcare developers and select strategic partners to design, develop, manage, secure and distribute advanced applications, services and AI algorithms quickly. Edison integrates and assimilates data from multiple sources and applies analytics and AI to provide actionable insights – including identifying missing data or records and data utilization that enables resource planning, optimization and cost management.
“GE provides proven, validated, trusted vendor neutral infrastructure that enables us to access and evaluate the data we need across a network of hospitals. It also enables us to transfer data and store it in our central data warehouse for onward use by partners. A real challenge for collaboration in the ecosystem has been how do you gather the necessary diverse data sets across multiple entities, and how do you provide an independent environment, a vendor neutral platform to support collaborative development and deployment of AI- GE’s VNA helps meet this challenge’ said Claire Bloomfield, Chief Executive Officer of the U.K.’s NCIMI National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging, a University of Oxford-led consortium of 15 NHS Trusts (hospital groups), industry, charities and patient support groups, which are working to develop new artificial intelligence tools to help speed up diagnosis of cancer, heart disease, genetic disorders and other conditions.
