Imaging Protocol Manager is a cloud-based, multimodality, protocol-management solution that provides access, insight, and governance for protocols on imaging devices to help providers effortlessly deliver the right exam for each patient and meet regulatory and accreditation requirements in an efficient manner.
1. Pull
Import protocols to cloud library from CT and MR allow basic edit.
2. Publish
View protocols and publish them as “Standard Protocol” for the fleet of same devices.
3. Push
Distribute protocols to scanners throughout the hospitals within the organization.
4. Clinical instruction
Verify positioning guidelines, contrast delivery, and technologist instructions.
5. Deviation tracking
Track and monitor protocol deviation between device and standard protocols on the cloud.
Imaging Protocol Manager also provides access to optimized protocols for GE Healthcare CT devices developed, validated, and verified by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the world’s premier healthcare providers and the world’s first and largest school of medical physics.
GE Healthcare’s Imaging Protocol Manager
allows healthcare providers to improve
consistency across their enterprises by
empowering their protocol teams to develop,
edit, optimize,manage, and download
protocols to their devices with an easy-to-use
app in the secure GE Health Cloud. It is a
single app that can be used to ensure that
the right protocols are on all CT and MR devices
all the time, effortlessly.
Protocol Manager supports role-based access control. On successful sign in to the Imaging Protocol Manager application with an assigned user account, you can view the application landing page with the selection options for 2 modalities (CT and MR) and also view the global settings.
Libraries hold a set of protocols specific to a modality. With Imaging Protocol Manager, by clicking the Settings option on the left pane, you will be able to:
The Devices section helps you understand the device interface by displaying device-specific details such as the device name, system ID, device modality and model number, the site information, and the status of the device in the Imaging Protocol Manager. There are two sections on this screen: one for directly connected devices and one for InSite™ back office-connected devices (CT LightSpeed™16 only).
Modality device view
This screen lists all the devices registered, with the number of protocols specific to a modality once imported. It lets the user import protocols from the scanner to the cloud library.
The Protocol Libraries section in Imaging Protocol Manager will help manage your protocols by providing visibility and ability on the following:
The Transaction Status section in Imaging Protocol Manager will help view and filter the running transactions with event, site, date/time, and user details in two tabs:
GE Healthcare offers standard Customer Success Engagement that not only helps customers get the value of the Imaging Protocol Manager application, but also assists your organization in implementing protocol management programs and processes.
Customer Success Manager (CSM) is involved from the outcome-scoping phase until its realization.
Through regular and sustained touchpoints, the CSM coaches the customer team, leveraging Change Acceleration Process (CAP) expertise/tools from the definition of the vision and governance mechanisms to the follow-up action and initiatives.
To support customer success, the CSM can leverage GE Healthcare clinical experts, educational materials, and technical privileged support.
The GE Health Cloud is designed to be a scalable, secure, connected, and interoperable platform, delivering the largest application ecosystem for the healthcare industry.
Designed to integrate into clinical workflows while managing the volume, velocity, and variety of healthcare data, the GE Health Cloud can connect to more than 500,000 GE Healthcare medical imaging machines and more than 1.5 million imaging machines worldwide. Additionally, the GE Health Cloud can link to millions of other healthcare devices including patient monitoring, diagnostics, anesthesia delivery, ultrasound, mammography and various data sources.
For more information, please navigate through the GE Healthcare website.
* GE Health Cloud URL needs to be whitelisted at the firewall
Directly connected devices
The cloud agent resides on the device and securely connects it to the cloud server after the user registers and authenticates the device. The connection to upload or download protocols is always initiated from the device to the cloud.
The Imaging Protocol Manager application helps to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data. To support adequate security for customer data, GE Healthcare has implemented required security measures at physical, network, and application levels of the application.
Physical & network level
The application will be hosted in a physically secured AWS (Amazon Web Services™) data center and GE Healthcare will monitor and deploy the application in a network security controlled environment. The configuration of network security components (i.e. firewall) is reviewed and configured by the GE Healthcare experts.
In accordance with its internal security standards, GE Healthcare has built all required security measures into the application.
Some of those specific measures are:
Imaging Protocol Manager only utilizes protocol configuration detail in conjunction with cloud-based services and applications to share settings. The data transmitted from the scanner includes scanner meta data, dependencies, and capabilities. No patient information (PHI) is being transmitted from scanner to the cloud.