SYMANTEC HEALTHStephanie RoongsathapaulISM 158April 22, 2010

CURRENT PROBLEMS Cost of medical images storage is increasing

at a rate of 20-40% annually.

Image sharing with non-affiliated physicians typically involves unreliable, inefficient, and costly CDs, DVDs, or web-based tools that often require long downloads and system reboots.  This limits the healthcare organization's referral opportunity and competitiveness, while subjecting patients to delays in care and the risk of repeat scans.

WHAT IS SYMANTEC HEALTH? Symantec Health is a new hosted medical

image archiving and sharing solution for healthcare providers.  The service helps lower storage costs and provides secure, Web-based image sharing for non-affiliated hospitals and physicians.

SYMANTEC HEATH COMPONENTS The new Symantec Health Safe solution

consists of two components: Symantec Health Safe

Symantec Health Image Share

SYMANTEC HEALTH SAFE

Provides secure and reliable storage capacity when needed

Enables providers to pay only for storage used

Eliminates capital outlays for storage hardware and software at a time when capital budgets are tight

Protects medical images at geographically-distributed data centers

SYMANTEC HEALTH IMAGE SHARE

Provide easy and secure image sharing over the Internet

Eliminates CDs and DVDs sharing methods Enhance image sharing with non-affiliated

specialists for consultations prior to patient transfer

SYMANTEC HEALTH IMAGE SHARE

Selecting a patient study displays all associated study data including images

and reports. Simply enter a physician email address in the top right box to share the study with a non-affiliated

physician.

Patient studies - displays recent sharing activity for each study.

BENEFITS Symantec will help themselves branch into

the growing health care technology market.

Symantec Health service will help hospitals and clinics reduce the soaring costs of medical image storage.

The service will allow health care providers to share their reports and images with hospitals and doctors over the Internet.

IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? Yes! Symantec sees the service as another

technology to help hospitals deal with the high cost of health care. Doctors and authorized staff would be able to search for and view medical images through the Web.

Symantec Health will reduce the cost of data storage for hospitals and increase efficiency in referring patients to specialists and transferring images file from one place to another.

SOURCES http://

news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10461454-247.html?tag=mncol

http://symantechealth.verite.com/

http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20100301_01

http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/11860/

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/security_providers25180-1.html

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