ScImage and NextGen Healthcare Expand Partnership
Offers integrated enterprise PACS solution to enhance diagnostic workflow and efficiency
ScImage announced today it has entered into an agreement with NextGen Healthcare to integrate its PICOM365 Enterprise PACS into the NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, allowing for seamless workflow during a clinical encounter. The combined solution opens a new chapter in healthcare information access by coupling enterprise PACS along with native EHR information.
The expanded integration supports an image-enabled EHR, allowing physicians to complete the entire clinical viewing and reporting workflow without ever leaving the EHR. NextGen Healthcare offers a broad, multi-specialty portfolio of specialty specific clinical content across more than 25 specialties which encompasses traditional cardiology and radiology PACS, and expands to additional sub-specialties such as obstetrics, orthopedics, mammography and dental. ScImage’s flexible PICOM365 architecture can accommodate all imaging specialties, providing image review, reporting and delivery, all within a common framework. In addition, it can incorporate medical images and final reports from both DICOM and non-DICOM format, thereby creating a single centralized point for access to all procedures performed on a patient.
“Throughout the healthcare industry, there is a real focus on clinical integration; the ability to link disparate data and data sources into a common view for the interpreting physician,” explains ScImage’s founder, Sai Raya, PhD. “Integrating imaging directly into the EHR is an essential tool from a clinical perspective and will become the norm in the industry going forward.”
“We have spent significant time in assessing this market and believe that an enterprise imaging solution as comprehensive as ScImage’s embedded in our EHR really has the ability to enhance physician efficiency and help overcome interoperability barriers to making important information available,” said Michael Lovett, Executive Vice President and General Manager at NextGen Healthcare.
About NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc., develops and provides a range of software and services for medical and dental group practices, including practice management and electronic health record applications, patient portal, interoperability and connectivity products, and population health management and analytics offerings. Services include managed cloud services, revenue cycle management, claims clearinghouse, data interchange and value-add consulting. The Company’s solution portfolio is readily integrated and collectively positioned to drive low total cost of ownership for its client partners, as well as enable the transition to value-based healthcare. For more information, visit www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
About ScImage
ScImage, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Los Altos, California. Founded in 1993, ScImage provides cost effective options to institutions challenged with disparate and non-integrated imaging systems. ScImage’s PICOM365 technology consolidates multi-department PACS, diagnostic reporting, VNA, enterprise viewing and collaborative reading. This single-database platform can be implemented on premises, in the cloud or both. ScImage’s unique approach incorporates Radiology, Cardiology, Women’s Health, clinical documents, and other “ologies” into a seamless diagnostic application suite. For more information about ScImage and the PICOM365 family of products, visit www.scimage.com or call 1-866-SCIMAGE.