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eMix, which stands for Electronic Medical Information Exchange, is a cloud computing-based technology for secure sharing of medical imaging studies and reports between disparate healthcare facilities and physicians. eMix was developed to address a challenge in medical imaging: How to exchange medical imaging data between proprietary information technology (IT) systems that do not “talk to each other.”, The service also provides an alternative to legacy solutions typically used for sharing medical imaging data., Examples of such legacy methods include:
- Virtual private networks
- Burning and mailing CDs
- Printing and mailing film, and
- Faxing reports.
eMix was one of the first cloud-based systems for accomplishing these tasks.,
Cloud-based services are likely to help facilitate the trend toward universal access to medical imaging and other electronic medical information. For example, members of health information exchanges (HIEs) can use a service such as eMix to share radiology data even when those members have mutually incompatible IT systems. The service also makes it possible for a healthcare institution to include radiology data obtained from out-of-network facilities or physicians in the institution's PACS, radiology information system (RIS), healthcare information system (HIS), or electronic medical record (EMR). Finally, it is a logical system for patients to use when adding medical imaging information to their personal health record (PHR).
A potential advantage of using a cloud-based system is affordability. Healthcare institutions, physician offices, and patients need no special infrastracture to use such a system—they only need a computer connected via broadband to the Internet. They don't even need to acquire special hardware or software, and can pay for the service on a subscription basis, much like phone service.,