AT&T pilots cloud medical imaging service

US telecoms giant AT&T has introduced a new cloud-based medical imaging and information management service, which is being piloted by two healthcare systems, writes Information Management.

The company says Baptist Health System of Alabama and Henry Ford Health System of Michigan have signed agreements to pilot the service, which will connect doctors to patients' medical images, promising faster treatment.

According to the Telecompaper, Baptist Health System has accumulated more than 2 million images and creates about 30 000 new images per month that it would like to share throughout its physician community.

Henry Ford Health System plans to use AT&T medical imaging and information management to store new cardiology medical imaging studies and to move other cardiology studies from its existing service to the AT&T service.

The service enables providers to store, access, view and share patient medical images and information inside hospital systems and outside with referring physicians and other authorised facilities over a secure infrastructure. AT&T's cloud system offers pay-as-you-go pricing.

“With the AT&T solution, which uses the power of our network combined with digital imaging technology, doctors and other healthcare providers can transform the way they treat patients,” says Randall Porter, assistant VP of AT&T ForHealth, writes the Executive Biz.