Carestream Recognized as Provider of the Most Comprehensive Enterprise Imaging Platform in 2016 KLAS Report

Recently, KLAS, an internationally recognized independent research firm, released its 2016 Annual Report on Enterprise Imaging. KLAS has long been renowned in the industry for its impartial and accurate assessments of vendor performance. By comparing vendors across multiple dimensions—including products and services—and synthesizing the perspectives and expectations of participating evaluators, KLAS reports provide consolidated findings derived from evaluations conducted by diverse healthcare institutions.

With its outstanding performance in vendor-neutral archiving (VNA) systems and web-based global viewers, Carestream Health received high ratings and was jointly recognized with another manufacturer as having the most robust and comprehensive imaging management platform. According to this report, Carestream’s FDA-cleared Vue Motion also achieved high scores in the global viewer category, demonstrating seamless integration with Carestream VNA and other clinical services.

According to the 2016 KLAS Report, Carestream Vue Archive is “easy to use, with effective training, and the entire solution consistently delivers reliable service,” quoting a CIO featured in the report. “This VNA system is remarkable. Tertiary hospitals have asked us how we managed to send clinical annotations, reports, and imaging data to them simultaneously in a readable format. It was this VNA that enabled us to accomplish everything we had planned, empowering us to transmit these large volumes of data upstream.”

The KLAS Annual Report notes that Carestream Health boasts fully empowered service personnel, the ability to resolve issues rapidly, and a proactive communication attitude—advantages frequently cited by other vendors. These strengths have helped Carestream forge strong partnerships with other suppliers.

“Carestream Health’s clinical integration platform is an enterprise-level imaging solution. This platform can acquire, manage, and integrate data and archives from disparate siloed systems, thereby providing a single access point to patient clinical record information,” said Ludovic D’Aprea, General Manager of Global Healthcare IT at Carestream Health.

Carestream Health’s Vendor-Neutral Archive System

The KLAS report highlights that approximately 75% of healthcare organizations are either unprepared to or have not considered deconstructing PACS as a future IT strategy, while the remaining 22% are still evaluating this approach.

“Carestream enables healthcare organizations to build enterprise imaging platforms according to their own approaches. Whether they wish to leverage a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for centralized management or integrate a universal viewer for unified access, the entire platform delivers scalable, modular, and vendor-neutral functionalities through a unified backend core,” said Ludovic D’Aprea, General Manager of Global Healthcare IT at Carestream Health.

Carestream Health's Clinical Integration Platform

Carestream’s Clinical Integration Platform is also capable of acquiring non-DICOM data and tagging metadata, thereby enabling intelligent, full-lifecycle management of clinical information. The platform can be seamlessly integrated into existing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. Currently, users of Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform span the globe, encompassing both single-site healthcare institutions and numerous multi-site healthcare groups, and it has been widely adopted in many regional and national health information exchange projects.