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“ As services became more centralised , specialists were merging into these centres . And so , patients started travelling to these often very hard-to-find specialists .”
As a result , patients ’ health records needed to follow them , and centralisation was the way to go . This is where OCINet comes in : managing all these repositories . Today , these Diagnostic Imaging Repositories ( DIRs ) hold 185 million exams .
“ We have merged into three repositories instead of four . Eventually , the mandate for us is to merge all of them into one DIR , because the technology is now available to do that and do that at scale .”
As David Veeneman , OCINet ’ s VP of Operations , explains , this goal to merge into one DIR is an exciting strategic move .
“ Two of those three were already based on GE HealthCare ’ s enterprise archive , and the third one was on another vendor ’ s product . So , we were at a point where that product needed to be substantially upgraded , both software and hardware .”
This , Veeneman adds , was used as an opportunity to align technologies across the province . “ This is a significant enabler for us because now converging the entire province , not yet to one DIR , but to one common vendor and to one common technology
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