Data Migration

Healthcare enterprises are continuing to store and manage staggering volumes of critical patient data.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a single patient typically generates close to 80 megabytes of health-related data each year. More than 90 percent of that data comes from medical imaging, however those images are often spread across multiple, isolated departmental systems. As enterprises increase their focus on delivering patient-centered care, the need for all members of the care team to have shared access to this clinical imaging data becomes paramount.

What to Consider When Planning for Data Migration

Data migration is a challenging task that comes with many risks and demands. When planning your clinical data migration, remember to consider the following factors:

Speed: To keep costs low, data migration needs to occur seamlessly and efficiently. If you plan to manage and store clinical imaging content in a variety of systems and software applications, data migration can quickly become a costly and time-intensive undertaking.
System Replacement: An ideal time to consider migrating data to the VNA is before you replace it with a new system. Once the data is in the VNA, Synapse VNA ensures that data migration only needs to occur once, and never again as the new system can access it directly from the VNA.
Non-DICOM Data: While DICOM migrations are fairly standard, specialty departments use a myriad of systems and tools to store and manage images and their associated meta-data. This lack of standardization makes it very challenging. To overcome this hurdle, Synapse VNA Connext Clinical Connectors can be employed to ensure all of your legacy data is available to the care team.
Migration Experience: When migrating massive volumes of data from disparate archives, the data migration experience can quickly become overwhelming. To avoid this, healthcare enterprises need to partner with an experienced VNA vendor that simplifies the process. With more than two decades of experience, Fujifilm TeraMedica has encountered and successfully moved imaging data from archives all over the world by providing complete migration services or offering native migration tools. This experience ranges from single legacy archives to the most complex environments.

Synapse^® VNA, A Powerful Solution

Vender neutral archives (VNA) arose as a solution to centralize storage and access to those images from the EHR through an enterprise viewer. In order to realize this vision, the VNA needs access to all of those imaging silos. That becomes a challenge when the systems lack interoperability. Therefore, clinical data migration is often necessary to move the data into the VNA.

Generally, this imaging data is stored electronically in either on-site servers, cloud storage or a combination of both. Successfully facilitating image data migration, including DICOM migration and non-DICOM migration, continues to be a top priority for healthcare enterprises. While traditional DICOM images generated in the radiology and cardiology departments still make up the majority of enterprise images, non-DICOM images obtained from departments such as dermatology, pathology, pediatrics, and many others continue to grow at a rapid pace. To keep up, healthcare enterprises need the IT capabilities that make healthcare data transferring and storage possible, and true imaging interoperability achievable. Those capabilities can be found in the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA).

Synapse VNA, a powerful solution from the TeraMedica Division of Fujifilm, enables seamless data migration by connecting imaging content across the care continuum. Providing imaging interoperability between more than 30 departments, the solution helps healthcare enterprises obtain a complete picture of patient health. Learn more about how Synapse VNA can help your enterprise succeed with patient data transferring and storage below.

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Synapse VNA offers inherent migration tools and professional service experts to further support your migration needs. With Synapse VNA from Fujifilm’s TeraMedica Division supporting your robust image data migration, physicians across the enterprise can rest assured that the clinical information they need to make informed and strategic diagnostic decisions is at their fingertips. To learn more about our migration services, contact a TeraMedica representative today.