Harris Corporation Demonstrates Global Medical Imagery Access, Sharing and Collaboration Capabilities
April 06 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Demonstration Provides Glimpse into the Future of Improved Patient
Care Using Integrated Healthcare Imagery and Information CHICAGO,
April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (HIMSS'09, Booth #3974) -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS) is demonstrating its advanced solution for
global medical imagery access and sharing during the HIMSS'09
Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition being held April 4-8 at
McCormick Place in Chicago. The company is leveraging technology
originally developed for exacting defense and intelligence
applications to enable medical images and documents to be linked to
a patient's electronic medical record, quickly located, and shared
online for viewing and collaboration at multiple sites. The
demonstration provides a glimpse into the future when medical
professionals will be able to remotely locate, view and manipulate
very large, multi-gigabyte digital images in an online, virtual
environment that ensures the images remain integrated with other
patient records. The demonstration also showcases the ability to
transmit extremely large files to the distant, outer edges of a
network using Harris tactical radios with broadband Ethernet
capabilities. In addition, the Harris Nationwide Health Information
Network (NHIN) CONNECT solution enables secure, interoperable
health information exchange between federal agencies and the
private healthcare sector - while patients retain control of how
their information is shared. "In today's transient and mobile
society, global access to stored medical images and documents is
crucial to better patient care. It is particularly important to
patients who have had testing and treatment at multiple locations
within a city, a region, or even globally," said Jim Traficant,
vice president of Harris Healthcare Solutions. "This technology
delivers clinicians the complete patient data picture needed to
make informed treatment decisions at the point of care, no matter
where the original data resides." For example, physicians at a
large city hospital could use the system to view and manipulate the
medical imagery of an injured patient in a rural location while
collaborating with on-site medical personnel. The imagery would be
linked to the patient's electronic medical record and included in a
registry, making it readily accessible by disparate systems in
different locations as the patient moves from one healthcare system
to another. In addition, the system has 'awareness' capabilities to
alert physicians when new information about a particular patient
becomes available. In addition to providing global image awareness
and access over existing networks, the system can extend to the
edges of a network for emergency first-responders and disaster
scenarios with the Harris RF-7800W High-Capacity Line-of-Sight
radio. The RF-7800W is a broadband Ethernet radio that provides a
wireless backbone for securely transferring Internet Protocol (IP)
traffic at distances up to 50 kilometers. This radio brings
wireless, high-bandwidth data networking to remote locations and
challenging environments where patients are in need of critical
care. Harris Healthcare Solutions provides enterprise intelligence
solutions and services for commercial and government customers,
including systems integration, intelligent infrastructure, advanced
visualization and display, enterprise digital content management,
and IT services solutions. Harris products, systems, and services
improve health outcomes by assuring that critical medical
information is delivered with security and privacy to the right
person, on the right device, at the point of care. About Harris
Corporation Harris is an international communications and
information technology company serving government and commercial
markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne,
Florida, the company has annual revenue of $5.4 billion and 16,000
employees - including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris
is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(R)
products, systems, and services. Additional information about
Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/.
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer of Harris
Healthcare Solutions, +1-321-727-6514, , or Jim Burke of Harris
Corporation, +1-321-727-9131, , or Marc Raimondi of Harris
Corporation - Washington, D.C., +1-202-729-3732, Web Site:
http://www.harris.com/
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