1. Vendor Neutral Archive
Colorado
Vendor Neutral Archive
(aka CTN Cloud VNA)
Project Coordination Team:
Toria Thompson, CTN Strategic Consultant (Project Coordinator)
Debby Farreau, CTN Program Director
Owen Hathaway, CTN Architecture Consultant
Michael Gray, VNA Consultant
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2. Colorado Vendor Neutral Archive
(aka CTN Cloud VNA)
Project Goals:
This feasibility study is the first part of a potentially multi- part project to establish a Colorado VNA.
The feasibility study is being funded by Centura Health and is open to all health care organizations that have a need to house and share images.
The feasibility study goal is to make a Go/No Go decision, in general, about a Cloud VNA not to pick a specific vendor. The four vendors asked to respond to our RFI are Acuo, TeraMedica, DeJarnette (Iron Mountain), InsiteOne (Dell).
If decision is to “Go”, next steps will be to work with specific vendor(s) to architect the final solution.
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3. Colorado Vendor Neutral Archive
(aka CTN Cloud VNA)
Participating Organizations:
Aspen Valley Hospital
Longmont United Hospital
Banner Health
Memorial Health System
Boulder Community Hospital
Metropath
Centura Health
Montrose Hospital
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Oncure
Colorado Springs Health Partners
Penrad
CORHIO
Poudre Valley Health System
Custer County Medical Center
Quality Health Networks (QHN)
Denver Health
Radiology Imaging Associates
Diversified Radiology of Colorado
University of Colorado Hospital
Estes Park Medical Center
Valley Wide Health Systems
Exempla
Yuma Hospital
…and growing
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4. Colorado Vendor Neutral Archive
(aka CTN Cloud VNA)
Project Timeline:
December 12, 2011 – February 10, 2012
January, 2012
Request for Information ed to vendors:
Acuo, TeraMedica, DeJarnette (Iron Mountain) and InsiteOne(Dell)
Jan 6
Questionnaire ed to participating organizations.
1 ½ hour Cloud VNA Architecture Discussion with participating organizations.
Jan 24
Vendor RFI’s due back to CTN.
Participant Questionnaires due back to CTN.
Jan 25
February, 2012
Two hour business meeting with participating organizations to review vendor responses and pricing and make decision whether and how to proceed to next step.
Feb 6th
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5. Colorado Vendor Neutral Archive
(aka CTN Cloud VNA)
The CTN Cloud VNA will….
House a secondary copy of medical images in a private cloud from healthcare organizations across Colorado.
Provide disaster recovery and business continuity based on these copies.
Enable sharing of these secondary copies among providers in partnership with CORHIO and QHN.
Enable viewing and sharing of these secondary copies among organizations using a web based viewer.
Be totally vendor-managed and provided under a master Fee-per-Study pricing model. CTN will receive sustainability revenue for each study stored in the Cloud VNA.
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6. Current State Current State -
R-PACS
C-PACS
X-PACS
R-PACS
C-PACS
R-PACS
C-PACS
Organization A LAN
Organization B LAN
Organization C LAN
CTN WAN
Current State -
Individual Heterogeneous PACS Environments, each with on-site Primary
and Secondary (DR) copy of the image data
DICOM communication of image data in individual PACS formats
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7. Proposed Cloud VNA
R-PACS
C-PACS
X-PACS
R-PACS
C-PACS
R-PACS
C-PACS
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
Organization A LAN
Organization B LAN
Organization C LAN
CTN WAN
Remote (Cloud-based) PACS-Neutral DR/BC Solution, where Gateway servers pass individual PACS Data (in original data formats) to Vendor-Neutral Archive in the Cloud, and UniViewer app image-enables the EMR with normalized data
Cloud Data Center LAN
Uni-Viewer
VNA
Storage
Server
Storage Network
Cloud Data Center
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