The web and mobile app for digitally sharing breast images sought a managed cloud service provider to operate compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remained safe. and security.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Without hard-to-transfer breast imaging data, patients could have been exposed to additional radiation and unnecessary tests in the past – a Mammogram-Send void was put in place to fill.
Historically, mammography facilities have struggled to share mammograms, breast ultrasound images, and MRIs, but access to a patient’s imaging history is essential for a primary diagnosis. accuracy and speeding access to care.
Send Mammogram has found a way through mobile technology to put patients in the driver’s seat, presenting their images in front of a radiologist reading their latest breast images.
Tillata Gibson, founder of Send Mammogram, started her career as a mammogram technician and found the problem of missing unresolved image data increased the risk of catastrophic complications in breast augmentation. breast cancer prevention and care.
Send Mammogram secure mobile app and dedicated business mammography image sharing platform to deliver better results by empowering patients to easily share mammogram images and results breast with diagnosticians and providers.
The platform facilitates the transmission of images with electronic signatures providing traceability, confirming receipt and ensuring long-term availability of image data.
Patients can request to have breast health images sent from a mobile device to the mammography facilities or in person.
Mammography facilities that receive images via Send Mammogram can automate workflows previously linked to receiving and managing faxed CDs and paperwork.
By leveraging ClearDATA’s CyberHealth platform, Send Mammogram has been able to go beyond HIPAA and HITRUST compliance standards for patients and service providers, according to the announcement.
“The hugs I receive from mammography coordinators and the positive feedback from radiologists referring them to the Send Mammogram solution tell me our work will make an impact and improve women’s health care,” Gibson said in the statement.
“Now, with ClearDATA, we can advance our vision of making it easier than ever for women to request and share their mammograms – improving results health while maintaining complete confidentiality of patient data.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Image sharing has long been a challenge for interoperability, with patient-supplied CD-ROMs proving a messy, unreliable method of transmission. Image-enabled personal health records and medical imaging exchange networks are two ways the healthcare industry is moving away from relying on patients or other providers to mail or download images up.
Intelerad recently acquired Life Image, and the consolidated company now manages more than 80 million images worldwide.
In a discussion last year on the development of image exchange networks and standards with IT news about healthcareDave Cassel, chief executive officer of Carequality, tackles the healthcare industry’s barriers to image transmission.
“What is missing to make this work on a national scale is governance, trust, and the infrastructure to connect the networks,” he said.
ON PROFILE
Rick Froehlich, CEO of ClearDATA, said in the announcement: “We are proud to partner with an organization like Send Mammogram that does so much good for breast care.
“We couldn’t think of a better mission and are delighted that ClearDATA’s managed medical cloud services have provided Send Mammogram with the utmost confidence that sensitive patient data will be private as they continue their important work modernizing women’s health care.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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