Flexibility is becoming a key attribute for the successful healthcare enterprise. For those managing and improving diagnostic imaging, “Vendor Neural Archive” (VNA) has moved from a buzzword for industry insiders to the daily lexicon.
Why the change? Incorporating a VNA into an infrastructure is transforming from idealistic desire to logical necessity.
A recent article written by Dr. Rasu B. Shrestha and published in Applied Radiology, effectively outlines the benefits of implementing a VNA. In his article entitled “Enterprise vendor neutral archive: Guide to riding the bandwagon”, Dr. Shrestha discusses the previous slow pace of expansion of VNAs and explains why this trend is quickly reversing.
Although there is debate in the industry about how best to engage this strategy, here are some of the benefits, which drive the debate:
At DICOM Grid, we have been developing these themes as well as providing the capability to deliver our software both as an onsite software installations, as well as a software as a service model. This flexibility is important as institutions begin to consider cloud and hybrid offerings.
To learn more read Dr. Shrestha’s article, where he classed DICOM Grid a “thoroughbred” in the VNA marketplace.