Cost Savings Associated with the Adoption of a Cloud Computing Data Transfer System for Trauma Patients.

Q4 Medicine Connecticut Medicine Pub Date : 2016-09-01

James M Feeney, Stephanie C Montgomery, Laura Wolf, Vijay Jayaraman, Michael Twohig

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Introduction: Among transferred trauma patients, challenges with the transfer of radiographic studies include problems loading or viewing the studies at the receiving hospitals, and problems manipulating, reconstructing, or evalu- ating the transferred images. Cloud-based image transfer systems may address some ofthese problems.

Methods: We reviewed the charts of patients trans- ferred during one year surrounding the adoption of a cloud computing data transfer system. We compared the rates of repeat imaging before (precloud) and af- ter (postcloud) the adoption of the cloud-based data transfer system.

Results: During the precloud period, 28 out of 100 patients required 90 repeat studies. With the cloud computing transfer system in place, three out of 134 patients required seven repeat films.

Conclusion: There was a statistically significant decrease in the proportion of patients requiring repeat films (28% to 2.2%, P < .0001). Based on an annualized volume of 200 trauma patient transfers, the cost savings estimated using three methods of cost analysis, is between $30,272 and $192,453.

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创伤患者采用云计算数据传输系统可节省成本。

简介:在转移的创伤患者中，放射学研究转移的挑战包括在接收医院加载或查看研究的问题，以及处理、重建或评估转移图像的问题。基于云的图像传输系统可以解决其中的一些问题。方法:我们回顾了采用云计算数据传输系统前后一年内转移的患者图表。我们比较了采用基于云的数据传输系统之前(云前)和之后(云后)的重复成像率。结果:在云前期，100例患者中有28例需要90次重复研究。随着云计算传输系统的到位，134名患者中有3名需要7次重复扫描。结论:需要重复拍片的患者比例下降有统计学意义(28% ~ 2.2%，P < 0.0001)。根据每年200名创伤患者转移的年化量，使用三种成本分析方法估计节省的成本在30,272美元到192,453美元之间。

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