Global Image Management

Harris led the transformation for National Intelligence imaging, bringing the U.S. intelligence community into the digital world. Our proven ability to enable secure processing, storage, access, and management of massive volumes of imagery data is enabling improvements in healthcare by both government and commercial providers.

The amount of digital data on a patient is rapidly increasing and much of that information is not being used to its full potential. Medical professionals today are challenged to integrate an increasingly complex and massive quantity of data and images in order to deliver reliable and cost-effective healthcare. Harris is at the forefront of leveraging our imaging expertise to give providers improved patient situational awareness.

Tens of millions of dollars have been invested by the U.S. government and Harris Corporation to research and develop capabilities for storage, management, processing, and distribution of large images over secure global networks. Harris has operational systems automatically processing megabyte to terabyte image data sets for mission critical applications.

Advanced tools and technologies provide the automatic quality assessment, registration, and fusion of 2D, 3D, and 4D data sets from multiple modalities. Computer algorithms have also been developed for the automatic extraction of information (e.g., outlining of image features, extracting 3D structures from 2D images) in order to reduce manual/touch labor and improve responsiveness. Advanced collaboration tools allow for both real-time and non-real-time collaboration of clinicians reviewing images and data via chat messaging, voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP), annotations, and notes tied to specific features in the image. Image access capabilities provide real-time federated access to globally distributed image repositories, even over wireless, bandwidth-constrained networks. Harris data centers provide secure, reliable storage of images for disaster recovery and business continuity applications.

Harris has also invented solutions to efficiently manage, share, and annotate extremely large (multigigabyte) image files, for uses such as digital pathology or multi-slice CT manipulation. This provides the capability to rapidly pan and zoom an electronic pathology slide image as if you were using a microscope—without having to be physically located with the slide—enabling rapid diagnostic support by virtual experts in remote geographic locations.

Harris Capabilities at Work:

Harris is helping to develop a global Healthcare artifact and Image management solution for the U.S. Dept of Defense Military Health System. We are connecting 65 hospitals and medical centers world wide to deliver enterprise intelligence at the point of care.

For more information, please contact:
Jim Traficant
Vice President, Harris Healthcare Solutions
Email: healthcare@harris.com
Phone: 703.610.4308