Interoperability Demonstrations

A separate location in the Exhibit Hall has been designated for the Interoperability Demonstrations. The objectives of the Interoperability Demonstrations will be to demonstrate interoperability between two or more exhibitors' hardware systems and software applications that streamline workflow, increase productivity, minimize errors, improve the return on investment for DHIMS or provide a more cost-effective solution for risk management and adhering to the mandated security and privacy regulations. The workshop should validate interoperability in one or more of the following areas:

  • Availability and accessibility
  • Clinical applications
  • Productivity enhancements
  • Change management
  • Communications
  • Storage management

Each attendee participating in the interoperability demonstration will be asked to judge the demonstration with respect to the following:

  • How seamless was the integration and interoperability of the exhibitors' hardware and software applications?
  • In your opinion what degree did the exhibitors' demonstration provide a solution to the issue or problem they were trying to resolve?
  • What impact will the exhibitors' solution have on:
    • Workflow
    • Productivity
    • Error reduction
    • Communications within the healthcare enterprise
    • Availability and accessibility
    • ROI improvement of DHIMS
    • Security, privacy and risk management

The following companies will be participating in the Interoperability Demonstrations:

Acuo Technologies — One of the key problems in healthcare informatics is the lack of interoperability among different information systems. Making healthcare information systems interoperable, otherwise known as Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS), will reduce the cost of healthcare and contribute to more effective and efficient patient care. If you are interested in how to share clinical records in the form of documents and images within your institution or outside the enterprise, such as a RHIO then Acuo Technologies has the solution for you using XDS. If your hospital informatics system is made up of proprietary databases, storage systems, point-to-point interfaces or you are in need of extending medical imaging across institutional borders to share content then a XDS solution is for you. Acuo Technologies, a pioneer and innovator in open grid computing, has solutions to virtualize medical imaging using standard protocols based upon DICOM/HL7/XDS and IHE profiles. Acuo Technologies offers a fully compliant XDS-1 end-to-end solution. This interoperability showcase will show XDS integration profile including XDS-1 for medical imaging, which provides solutions to problems of sharing clinical content across multiple applications and institutional boundaries. XDS-1 extends the Document Source actor to include DICOM instances (images, reports, key objects, and presentatio states).

Cisco — Horizon Medical Imaging (HMI) Collaboration™ - Cisco Module  is an ideal way to integrate PACS with emerging communication technology, encompassing not only voice and voicemail, but also instant messaging and e-mail. Together, they address the immediate need of reducing clinical errors through enhanced communication and improving collaboration across healthcare service providers to ensure accurate diagnosis and timely treatment. This add-on module enables HMI to interoperate with a customer’s existing or planned Unified Communications infrastructure, making it easier for HRS users to:

  •  access the enterprise phone book and view the online status of contacts
  •  instantly identify all contacts associated with a specific patient/study
  •  establish a connection with the contact’s preferred method of communication
  •  send instant messages
  •  share desktop applications
  •  initiate a phone and/or video conference call

InSiteOne, Inc. — InSite One will demonstrate its vendor neutral information management system that supports seamless integration with over 20 PACS solutions at more than 520 clinical sites that share patient data across the enterprise through Integrated Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) conventions. With over 1.63 billion images online in a managed service archive solution, InDex Archive has become the benchmark for shared digital storage across the enterprise. InSite One will demonstrate how multiple vendors play specific IHE roles as they share patient data across the enterprise.

NeoTool — Radiology workflow demands and requirements have grown due to competitive, regulation, and operational changes.  With the focus on streamlining various workflows, manually entering or re-entering patient data can no longer be an accepted practice.  Automating clinical data and patient flow is accomplished by deploying efficient, effective healthcare interfacing software solutions. Multiple application systems (e.g., RIS, PACS, Voice Recognition, Billing, etc.) support various radiology workflows.  With different data formats and requirements between applications, an interface engine solution is needed in order to facilitate data translations, transformations, and communication to achieve quick turn around times and enhance radiologist productivity. When a patient requires an image exam, a workflow begins that includes ordering, imaging, reading, reporting, and billing.  Each step requires collected patient and clinical data to be electronically communicated to the next step in the process.  During the interoperability showcase, NEOTOOL will demonstrate how an interface engine solution facilitates the electronic communication and supports the radiology workflow.  Electronically supported workflows will result in lower costs, higher productivity, and decreased quality risks for radiology practices and departments.


ScImage — ScImage's interoperability display will demonstrate the implementation of a web-based workflow management foundation with automatic study routing. The solution employs business and clinical rules that enable multiple, geographically dispersed facilities to create a unified network. This network information can be stored, shared and moved to and from disparate image and information management systems. This approach achieves a high degree of interoperation between a large number of existing RIS and PACS solutions in order to achieve the goal of dynamic workload allocation. Communication between systems is achieved using HL7 and DICOM standard messaging exclusively. It also allows users of the system to provide teleradiology services on a pre-defined and automatic basis. The result enables a more efficient use of a limited number of reading physicians.