Casa della Salute: More securely accessing and viewing medical images anytime, anywhere
About Casa della Salute
Casa della Salute is a privately owned, growing network of multi-specialty diagnostic clinics in Italy providing imaging services such as MRI and CT scans.
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About O3 Enterprise S.r.l
Italy-based O3 Enterprise is a Google Cloud Technology Partner that develops solutions such as ZeeroMED for the management of medical imaging in the cloud.
Until recently, each of Casa della Salute’s four diagnostic clinics had its own medical imaging Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and related storage. Managing the different systems was complex and exchanging medical images, such as X-rays, between sites required many manual steps. This setup could make it challenging to provide patients with rapid, quality care. For example, radiologists couldn’t easily share medical images with physicians or other radiologists, so obtaining a second opinion on a patient’s medical image could take a day or longer.
Google Cloud results
- Enables diagnostic viewing and reporting from any browser in any clinic
- Reduces time spent obtaining medical images, helping staff be more productive
- Provides better patient care and treatment outcomes
- Scales easily to meet organization’s growing storage and resource needs
Reduces time to share images from hours to minutes
Enabling change
Solutions: Migration
Casa della Salute turned to Google Cloud Technology Partner O3 Enterprise S.r.l, a Trieste, Italy-based company specializing in imaging solutions management. The O3 Enterprise ZeeroMED suite is a fully integrated Radiology Information System (RIS) and PACS platform that enables complete workflow management within healthcare facilities and radiology departments.
"ZeeroMED has greatly improved the chances of giving better care to our patients. Having a system that streamlines every phase of the process, from the booking to the delivery of reports, makes our centers more efficient in terms of optimization of time and security for our patients," says Omar Lafi, IT Manager at Casa della Salute.
ZeeroMED is hosted on Google Cloud. Within the ZeeroMED cloud application, Casa della Salute leverages Compute Engine for its hosted virtual machine infrastructure; Persistent Disk for short-term image storage that can be quickly backed up and resized; and Cloud Storage for flexible long-term storage. “It’s an extremely efficient solution for managing a large amount of storage,” says Lorenzo Rizzatto, CTO of O3 Enterprise. “Casa della Salute acquired about 2TB of medical imaging data in the first few months of being on Google Cloud. Soon, they’ll be adding about 5TB a year, which is a lot given their size.”
In addition, O3 Enterprise is using Firebase for more secure user authentication and other functions within the Casa della Salute mobile app.
Google Cloud makes it easy for O3 Enterprise to scale compute resources for Casa della Salute “We can easily add more servers and expand storage whenever they’re needed, which is important to growing organizations like Casa della Salute,” Lorenzo says. Google Cloud provides a highly reliable, easily accessible, centralized cloud foundation as well, making it fast and easy to more securely distribute medical images to healthcare providers, clinicians, and patients.
The integrated layers of privacy and security controls in Google Cloud are critical for healthcare companies such as Casa della Salute, especially those operating in Europe, following the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR). “With features like encryption at rest, we can trust Google Cloud with our customers’ information,” says Lorenzo. “Google Cloud commitment to GDPR compliance is extremely important. Not all cloud service providers offer that, and it was one of the main reasons we chose Google Cloud.”
O3 Enterprise is experimenting with Casa della Salute to leverage Google Cloud machine learning technologies such as TensorFlow in the future. For example, one goal of using machine learning is to improve the detection of masses and the classification of density in mammography images, leading to more accurate reporting.
“We're proud to be able to provide the reports to our patients as soon as they're ready, thanks to the distribution via web and mobile apps, reducing their effort and saving them time. Moreover, we are growing very quickly and opening a new center on ZeeroMED running on Google Cloud is very fast and easy.”
—Omar Lafi, IT Manager, Casa della SaluteTell us your challenge. We're here to help.
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About Casa della Salute
Casa della Salute is a privately owned, growing network of multi-specialty diagnostic clinics in Italy providing imaging services such as MRI and CT scans.
About O3 Enterprise S.r.l
Italy-based O3 Enterprise is a Google Cloud Technology Partner that develops solutions such as ZeeroMED for the management of medical imaging in the cloud.