Enhancing The Health And Safety Of Miners With A Medical Imaging Strategy
Mining organizations take the health and safety of their employees very seriously and with good reason. The mining profession, important as it is, carries many health risks for its workers, including inhalation and ingestion of dust, chemicals, heavy metals and radiation, all of which can potentially poison workers and cause immediate and/or life-long health problems.
The Challenge Of Managing Employee Health Screening
As mining companies strive to create robust health and safety policies and practices, they are faced with a number of challenges when it comes to managing the health screening of their employees:
Miners are often migrant workers operating for lengthy periods in rural and remote locations and often don’t have their medical records on hand.
It has been difficult for mining organizations to keep track of the screening and scanning history of their employees and thereby monitor the long-term health of employees.
Often miners’ medical images are misplaced or unavailable resulting in the need for re-screening, with the unnecessary risks and costs of over-exposure to radiation.
BridgeHead’s HealthStore® – A Medical Image Repository For The Mining Industry
BridgeHead’s HealthStore provides mining organizations with a central repository for all employee medical images. New scans, such as chest x-rays and MRIs, can be easily uploaded into HealthStore, where they are stored and protected alongside the employee’s historical scans. Once in HealthStore, these medical images can be securely accessed from anywhere in the world, on any device, in just a few clicks.
To see the range of benefits our solution offers, please select the functional area below that best suits you:
Improve employee health screening programs
Increase speed of diagnosis & treatment
Enhance collaboration & reduce clinical workflow
Reduce re-screening & decrease risks of radiation
Provide clinicians easy access to employee medical images
Efficiently store & protect employee medical data
Meet data compliance & governance obligations
Ensure interoperability with occupational health and other systems
Improve employee health and safety
Reduce re-screening & decrease risks of radiation
Protect & safeguard employee medical data
Meet regulatory, compliance & governance obligations
HealthStore® Features For Mining
Employee data accessible through a web browser
Provides roles-based data access controls
Easy collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
Comprehensive protection through multi-copy, encryption, and hash verification
Simple eDiscovery of all available employee medical images
Full information lifecycle management (ILM), including legal hold
Full diagnostic image viewer
Ability to remotely upload employee medical images
Integrates with occupational health and other systems
Intuitive user interface – no training required
Fully supports healthcare data standards such as DICOM, HL7, XDS and CIFS (for unstructured files)
Works with any storage hardware regardless of vendor
Full auditing for monitoring, tracking, traceability and analytics of activities, trends, resources and security
HealthStore® Features For Mining
Employee data accessible through a web browser
Provides roles-based data access controls
Easy collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
Comprehensive protection through multi-copy, encryption, and hash verification
Simple eDiscovery of all available employee medical images
Full information lifecycle management (ILM), including legal hold
Full diagnostic image viewer
Ability to remotely upload employee medical images
Integrates with occupational health and other systems
Intuitive user interface – no training required
Fully supports healthcare data standards such as DICOM, HL7, XDS and CIFS (for unstructured files)
Works with any storage hardware regardless of vendor
Full auditing for monitoring, tracking, traceability and analytics of activities, trends, resources and security
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To learn how BridgeHead’s HealthStore® is helping organizations like SASOL Mining to improve the health and safety of its mining workforce, please choose from the following options: