Data Sheet Access a patient’s complete medical history when it matters most

IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive

Today, it is common for health care to be delivered across multiple settings. A patient’s diagnosis and treatment journey can rapidly take them from a physician’s office to an imaging center to the operating room of a hospital. Each stop generates a record, such as doctors’ notes, test results, medical device data, discharge summaries or information pertinent to the social determinants of health, which become part of a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) in each setting.¹ Consider this scenario: A 53-year-old male arrives by For every health ambulance at a community hospital emergency room care patient in presenting with life-threatening, stroke -like symptoms. A CT is required to determine if he is suffering from an ischemic stroke the nation, the caused by a blood clot in an artery or a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a brain aneurysm. While no one at the hospital has interoperability the expertise to review the case, an expert neuroradiologist at of health a facility 20 miles away is available to review the CT images. Her involvement could quickly determine the patient’s life- information is saving diagnosis and optimal treatment. a foundational This hypothetical case illustrates how interoperability can issue, now and make a significant impact on the quality of care received. If the community hospital had an interoperable solution like IBM in the future. iConnect® Enterprise Archive, they could make the necessary The ability to connections – between IT systems, healthcare facilities and clinicians – to provide access to the patient’s complete medical access, match, history when it matters most. And while the consequences reconcile and may not always be as dramatic above, the benefits can be wide-ranging for patients across the continuum of care. use patient data generated by How IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive can help different systems

IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive allows you to store, manage enables better and all your enterprise-wide images, DICOM and non- patient care and DICOM, from disparate PACS, specialties, service lines and sites regardless of source or format, in various hybrid and engagement. cloud native deployments. American Hospital Association, Sharing Data, Saving Lives, Our award-winning VNA also makes it easy to extend your IHE January 2019 strategy to include native XDS support.

With IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive, you can access a complete view of a patient’s medical record with rich integration to the EHR, helping you to make more informed decisions for your patients. As the foundation of a holistic image management solution, IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive allows physicians to access current and historical images, as well as other essential non-DICOM patient data, using your choice of viewer.

2 With IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive you can: About IBM Health – Consolidate and manage access to imaging studies and data from/by multiple facilities, departments and vendors IBM Watson Health, is a – Ingest, store and manage any type of non-DICOM content leading provider of innovative – Deploy containers in a Kubernetes based environment, with , support for ® OpenShift, providing the foundational enterprise imaging and elements for a hybrid cloud agnostic VNA. interoperability solutions that – Integrate cloud storage as tier 2 utilizing native S3 or Azure seek to advance healthcare. Blob API’s to take advantage of the ROI, high availability and Its enterprise imaging security by supported vendors. solutions facilitate the – Administer your VNA using an intuitive zero footprint web management, sharing and administration with robust configurations and wizards to storage of billions of patient more easily manage your system and data. medical images. – Use data integrity and reconciliation to compare data present on one IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive system with With imaging solutions that another IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive system via EAWeb have been used by providers to ensure two replicated archives are in sync and that data for more than 25 years, present on a cache is also present on the archives. Watson Health is helping – Use new serviceability and configurability tools to monitor, to reduce costs, improve identify and correct data discrepancies to ensure data efficiencies and enhance integrity and accuracy. the quality of healthcare – Setup, start, monitor, and manage storage moves within the worldwide. system with Storage Move Tools – Perform routine administration tasks without contacting support with new DIY tools – Setup, start, monitor, and manage DICOM migrations within the system with the new DMS Migration Service

3 Watson Health interoperability solutions © Copyright IBM Corporation 2020. IBM Corporation, Watson Health, New Orchard Road, Armonk, NY 10504 Watson Health interoperability solutions, which include

IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive and IBM iConnect Access, Produced in the of America, provide advanced capabilities designed to help healthcare December 2020 organizations seamlessly ingest, manage, store, view, share IBM, the IBM logo, .com, are trademarks and exchange imaging-related healthcare data. of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks They enable users to leverage existing applications and widely- of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright used web and healthcare technology standards to create a and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/ vendor-neutral, interoperable environment that enhances legal/copytrade.shtml. collaboration, In addition, with Watson Health, patients are The performance data and client examples more engaged with their care by actively sharing pictures, cited are presented for illustrative purposes only. Actual performance results may vary videos, etc. with their physicians who can then add this depending on specific configurations and information to the EHR record. operating conditions. If applicable, consult with your IBM legal contact to craft a competitive claims disclaimer. If applicable, add the other IBM iConnect Enterprise Archive IBM products, services, or programs disclaimer. THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS Enable the storage, management and sharing of all DICOM, PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, non-DICOM images from disparate PACS, specialties and EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, service lines, in various hybrid and cloud native deployments. FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON- INFRINGEMENT. IBM products are warranted IBM iConnect Access* according to the terms and conditions of the Share and exchange images with a zero-download web viewer agreements under which they are provided. If comarketed, add the disclaimer statement to across the enterprise and community. this section.

To learn more about how you can benefit from the iConnect ECM-18970 Rev. 6.0 platform’s scalability, from simple image viewing to enterprise- level management and integration of diverse image sources and applications, visit https://www.ibm.com/watson-health/ solutions/enterprise-imaging.

*IBM iConnect Access is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use on mobile devices

1.American Hospital Association, Sharing Data, Saving Lives, January 2019