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Clinical Information Exchange and Storage Made Simple

Karos Health (www.karoshealth.com) introduces new products and product releases at this year’s RSNA-2010 in Chicago.

Karos Health ’ Rialto software platform provides all the functionality required to construct and maintain clinical information exchange and storage networks. A Rialto-based exchange network ensures the patient health record is available to each healthcare participant along the patient’s care pathway. Designed with open-standards, scalability and object-based storage in mind, the Rialto platform consists of modular software components that enable a tailor-made approach to construct the most optimal deployment solution for any given task. Rialto is compliant with the latest releases of IHE® Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) and IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I.b) Technical Frameworks.

At this year’s RSNA , Karos takes the Rialto platform to the next level by providing a suite of ready-made solutions. Rialto’s ready-made solutions are built on the Rialto platform for clinical information exchange and storage. Each ready-made solution provides a comprehensive set of capabilities with a specific purpose in mind. All ready-made solutions inherit the Rialto platform DNA for open-standards compliance, common services, serviceability and manageability. Together these ready-made solutions provide a complete suite of products to construct a clinical information exchange and storage network.

Rialto Connect is focused on XDS-enabling existing clinical information systems. Rialto allows existing systems to participate in XDS-based clinical exchange networks, expanding their ability to publish, discover and retrieve information to and from these networks. Rialto Connect facilitates a patient-centric view of the complete medical record with no disruption to existing healthcare processes and workflows.

Rialto Navigator is an open standards-based, ultra-thin web-based viewing application for health professionals to discover, retrieve, and view clinical information from an XDS-based exchange network. Rialto Navigator can be used to access all types of clinical documents that are not natively supported by legacy systems. Rialto Navigator can be embedded in existing applications or run standalone.

Rialto Toolkit offers a comprehensive SDK to those vendors who are looking to embed XDS more tightly into their application. Rialto Toolkit allows vendors to build XDS publishers and consumers using the Toolkit’s Java API and web services.

Rialto Vault is a clinical imaging and document repository that adds storage to a clinical information exchange network. Rialto Vault uses object-based storage technology to provide highly reliable and secure storage on low cost hardware, eliminating the need for SAN or NAS technologies. Rialto Vault is a compelling choice for providers looking to consolidate their data across applications and healthcare facilities.

Rialto Discover provides for the indexing of patient and clinical information at a regional, state or national level. Rialto Discover provides a master patient index that can manage the links between patients from multiple enterprises. Rialto Discover also includes an index of all clinical documents or images that are available for linked patients. Finally, Rialto Discover provides for a repository for auditing all access to a patient’s health information.

"I am proud of the significant progress we are making in our Rialto platform development and the products derived from it. The flexibility and scalability of our platform is proving itself in an increasing number of customer deployments which is where it counts", says Rick Stroobosscher, president, Karos Health. "We are working with our partners and customers to advance healthcare and improve the quality of patient care." he added.

Source: Karos Health