EMED PORTAL

Ontario DI Landscape

A lot of progress has been made to centralizing diagnostic images. In Ontario, the deployment of the Diagnostic Imaging repository is 100% complete.

All hospitals within the province are able to transfer medical images to the central repository.

Further work is planned to expand the repository by accepting images from smaller facilities and IHFs (Independent Health Facilities) .

Currently, only about 10% of IHF are connected to a DI-r.

This results in segmented and silo-ed patient data; incomplete patient history/longitudinal record, increased exposure to radiation due to duplication of imaging exams, increased patient frustration and delays.

HOWEVER, access to the images currently in the DI-rs is still an issue.

The eMedPortal allows organizations and facilities, regardless of whether they are contributing images to a repository, the ability to query and retrieve exams from the repositories.

eMedPortal

Ontario DI Landscape

The eMed Portal solution will improve patient care and the patient experience by providing access to millions of medical images and reports .

The solution utilizes an advanced technology architecture to facilitate a robust and efficient retrieval and FEM (Foreign Exam Management) workflow, incorporating features that emphasize patient privacy and security.

[1] DI-r Benefits - https://hdirs.ca/di-repository/benefits-examples/

BENEFITS

Promote Image Sharing

Ontario Healthcare Benefits

Patient Care Improvements

Enables authorized HSP access to images from anywhere, at any time.
Provides faster, more reliable access to images.
Facilitates more accurate and timely diagnosis and faster treatment.

Patient Care Improvements

Ontario Healthcare Benefits

Patient Care Improvements

Reduces patient wait times
Reduces patient travel time
Facilitates more accurate and timely diagnosis and faster treatment.

Ontario Healthcare Benefits

Supports improvements in patient care.
Helps the province maintain a flexible, scalable, sustainable healthcare system.

Features

Seamless Integration

Foreign Exam Management

Seamless Integration

Enables healthcare organizations to seamlessly implement and manage complex imaging workflows.

Advanced Routing

Foreign Exam Management

Seamless Integration

Identify and/or retrieve all exams and reports for a given patient from multiple, disparate archives with a single request.

Including integration to regional and provincial archives.

Foreign Exam Management

Support for Foreign Exam Management (FEM) and the Import and Display of External Priors (IDEP) IHE Profile.

Fully Standards-based solution: HL7 v2/3, FHIR, DICOM, XDS, REST, SOAP and more.