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Note: New healthcare information management system digs deep into metadata to improve interoperability and the value of clinical data.
Hitachi Data Systems has rolled out a new information management system that makes better use of metadata, giving healthcare practitioners more patient information in one place.
The Hitachi Clinical Repository, unveiled at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando on Monday, transforms raw medical data and images into useful information, independent of its application source. The system creates a metadata repository that gives healthcare providers a consolidated view of all of a patient's relevant information.
Healthcare facilities are dealing with enormous amounts of medical information and images that contain additional underlying metadata. The metadata...