Telegraph-Journal
The company building the digital image repository at the heart of the province's e-health system says its software will allow a patient's diagnostic information to be transferred quickly and securely across the province.
The digital image repository being built by Agfa Inc. is one of four major components of the province's one-patient, one-record e-health initiative.
It is the most expensive aspect of the project announced to date.
The two-year, $9-million project will allow the storage in a central data centre of diagnostic images and reports from X-rays, CT scans, ultrasounds and MRIs that will be accessible from any health care facility in the province.
Dave Wilson, director of marketing for imaging and informatics with Agfa HealthCare Canada, says the New Brunswick project is still in the planning stage.
"This is really an evolution of what the province started a long time ago," he says.
Many hospitals and regional health authorities are already using digital image repositories either built by Agfa or by General Electric.
In addition to the image repository, the other components of the e-health initiative include the client registry, the provider registry and the interoperable electronic health record.
The client registry is being built over two years by Initiate Systems Inc. for $1.9 million while the provider registry and interoperable health record are being built over two years by Orion Health for $4 million.
The province has awarded xwave a $5.6-million, three-year contract for systems integration and maintenance.
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