Konica Minolta Healthcare Introduces Image Management Solution

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. has launched Exa Enterprise, an enterprise imaging solution that gives hospitals and imaging centers fast data access for better operational efficiency.

With an integrated PACS/RIS core powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Exa Enterprise provides a highly scalable, web-based platform with cybersecurity measures and fast data access to boost efficiency across imaging specialties. Designed for hospitals with up to 500 beds and hospital-owned and large imaging centers, Exa Enterprise integrates third-party partner solutions for vendor neutral archive (VNA), universal viewer, advanced visualization, image sharing, AI-powered workflow orchestration, business intelligence, and speech and reporting.

“With specialization in integrated PACS/RIS and private cloud services for imaging centers, including several national, multi-state and independently owned chains, Konica Minolta is well-positioned to design and develop the platform of the future,” HCIT Marketing Director Tim Kearns said. “This enterprise ecosystem provides customers with optimal solutions based on their needs and specialties. We see this enabling our customers to clinically advance their practice across the hospital or imaging center.”

Through AWS HealthImaging, a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life science organizations and their software partners store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at petabyte scale, Konica Minolta’s Exa Enterprise platform empowers healthcare organizations to accelerate innovation while minimizing the complexities and costs of medical image data management. AWS HealthImaging for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides facilities with significant storage savings and speed, enabling Konica Minolta’s customers to increase image storage savings, image retrieval speeds, and data security through a centralized, secure, compliant access point for their medical imaging data.

Built on the Exa Platform, Exa Enterprise is built for speed, high-volume imaging, and scalability. With its accessible API, partner solutions are tightly integrated to amplify Exa Enterprise.

Konica Minolta has partnered with several best-in-class solutions providers for Exa Enterprise, including:

• Apollo, a clinical workflow solutions provider, to enable every clinical department throughout the enterprise to securely acquire, manage, and access all clinical content through the company’s VNA, arcc, The Apollo Repository for Clinical Content.
• NewVue, provider of cloud-native radiology workflow solutions, to empower radiology practices with its EmpowerSuite Workflow Orchestrator and Command Center, featuring an AI-curated radiologist worklist and advanced tools for peer review, critical results, and discrepancy management.
• Clearpath Technologies‘ automated platform, which enables medical record and image sharing between healthcare facilities, patients, providers, legal requestors and third parties, making it the first comprehensive solution that automates sharing across the entire care continuum.
• Quinsite’s Comprehensive Healthcare Analytics Platform, which empowers department leaders with robust, reliable data insights from clinical, billing and operational systems to support informed decision-making and guide success.

“Our focus is on workflow and providing the tailored tools that radiologists need to work smarter and make better decisions, sooner, and that imaging center and hospital department managers need to improve patient outcomes and boost practice efficiency and business operations,” HCIT Product Management Executive Director Matthew Andersen stated. “…we’re managing nearly 3 petabytes of data in our data centers, which includes multicenter imaging practices with hundreds of thousands of studies flowing in and out of our private cloud every day.”

“We want to scale not only the resources, but feature functionality. Each customer can decide how they want to orchestrate their clinical workflow by individual radiologist preferences and clinical priorities,” Anderson added. “Our image sharing platform delivers images to any authorized stakeholder and advanced analytics provides actionable insights for data driven decision making. Exa Enterprise also enables imaging business teams to improve patient flow, identify trends, reduce costs and use data to make decisions more efficiently. It is the complete enterprise imaging package that hospitals and groups are asking for today.”

Konica Minolta Healthcare develops medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology solutions. The company provides healthcare advancements through primary imaging—including X-ray, ultrasound, and imaging management systems. With 150 years of endless innovation, imaging is in Konica Minolta’s DNA. From roots as a camera and film manufacturer, the company has cultivated its own technologies and continues to evolve techniques for visualizing things that are not visible. Headquartered in Wayne, N.J., Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. is a division of Konica Minolta Inc.