BOSTON, Jun 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management
company, will participate in a June 14 webinar on how hospital records
managers can build a business case for investing in enhanced medical
image archiving.
In today's patient-care settings, healthcare providers view and store
medical-image data like x-rays, CT scans, and MRIs through Picture
Archiving Communication Systems (PACS). Hospitals typically rely on
multiple PACS from various vendors to manage different types of images,
and these PACS do not easily integrate with each other, trapping patient
data within silos. These silos limit physicians' ability to share data
about the same patient and complicate delivering on the promise of a
holistic electronic medical record. Solving this problem requires
hospital IT leaders to connect disparate PACS and make available non
PACS-based images as well - an often costly and complex process.
The webinar, hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS), will overview this issue and give attendees strategies
for solving it, from implementing cloud storage and a vendor
neutral archive (VNA) to improving processes through policy
implementation and enforcement. The session will feature Michael Gray,
principal of healthcare technology advisory firm Gray Consulting; and
Ken Rubin, senior vice president and general manager of Healthcare
for Iron Mountain.
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WHAT:
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Titled "The Anatomy of a VNA Done Right: The Case for Silo Busting,"
this webinar will help attendees:
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Understand the challenges of storing, managing and accessing medical
image data;
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Explore the new landscape of solutions for solving these challenges;
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Build a compelling business justification for implementing a cloud
infrastructure and VNA.
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WHEN:
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 1 p.m. ET
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TO REGISTER:
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Click here
to register for this event
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PRESS
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CONTACT:
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Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain
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617-535-8721
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christian.potts@ironmountain.com
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About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management
services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and
inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The
company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their
information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so
they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance
and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of
information assets, including business records, electronic files,
medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com
or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain
for more information.
SOURCE: Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain
Christian T. Potts, 617-535-8721
christian.potts@ironmountain.com
or
Weber Shandwick
Kristen Georgian, 617-520-7042
kgeorgian@webershandwick.com