ONC Ocular Imaging Challenge: Apollo EPMM ®

Apollo EPMM® is a proven, unique, cost-effective and robust solution to medical multi-media management from the clinician perspective. After creating the first Pathology PACS, PathPACS®, Apollo first added ophthalmology and ultimately evolved the premier product into an enterprise solution: Apollo EPMM®. Users in 44 specialties now benefit from the lessons learned from many years of clinical experience.

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Area Evaluation Factors The Apollo EPMM® Solution…Breadt

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Accept output from a wide range of ophthalmic devices and input formats, and convert to DICOM formats.

…currently interfaces directly with eleven ophthalmology devices using file based interfaces, stores and manages the image in the original format generated by each device and can export in vendor neutral formats. Apollo EPMM® also interfaces with 3rd party DICOM systems such as the VA’s VistA.

Usability and interfa

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Have an easy-to-use interface for clinicians with a range of experience and comfort level with technology. Provide the ability to view and annotate diagnostic-quality ophthalmic images.

…lets the clinician view and annotate images with a wide array of options for optimal display and annotation. The current robust capabilities were developed with clinicians at all levels of technical experience. Apollo EPMM® is invariably described as easy to learn and to use.

Integration and

Workflow

Be convenient to integrate into clinical ophthalmology workflow, to install on existing hardware platforms, and to integrate with existing EHR systems.

…manages images according to local administrative workflow using the clinician’s existing hardware and can be either a standalone solution or interface with VNAs, etc. Apollo EPMM® is already integrated with major EHRs. Due to the flexibility of Apollo EPMM®’s parameters, minimal development is necessary for integration with new products and to adapt to changing preferences, standards, options and requirements such as NwHIN..

PlatformNeutrality

Will be platform neutral. … communicates directly with devices on a Windows platform. A mobile app for image capture and a web-based, less robust, alternative are available.

Apollo Corporate Overview

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Apollo’s clinical media solutions are in use at government and private hospitals, laboratories, and teaching institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. Founded in1993, the company was the first to introduce a specialized “PACS” solution for Pathology that meets the information management needs for digital pathology. Due to clinician demand, this product ultimately evolved into Apollo EPMM® (Enterprise Patient Media Manager) to address clinical media management from any medical specialty, including Ophthalmology. This innovation enables the provider to see the complete picture of the patient for the first time.

Apollo is a well-established company with a reputation for delivering quality clinical multimedia products and services that are universally described as easy to learn and to use. These application solutions enable healthcare providers to make better real-time medical diagnoses, save time and money, and improve the quality of care.

Apollo meets multi-media management needs by providing a foundation that interfaces directly with image capture devices and legacy information systems, requiring only the unique patient identifier as input, while also providing secure enterprise-wide connectivity Solutions are developed from the clinician’s point of view while taking care to create flexible workflows that easily support the best practices already in place .  Apollo’s key strategic partners were selected based on a shared vision of high quality customer service and innovative healthcare solutions, including leading the way on adoption of all evolving standards and requirements (ex: NwHIN):

• Dell Healthcare (UCA) • CGI Healthcare, Inc.(ECM & HIM Solutions) • Karos Health (IHE Integration)

We benefit the patient by providing a software environment that enables everyone in the healthcare team to collaborate

Better for the patient

Easy for the provider

Secure for the facility

We work the way you work. Apollo EPMM® provides direct interoperability for

ophthalmic imaging or measurement devices and EHRs.

Easily and securely connects to other

systems and organizations for

consults or other data sharing.

Interface to the patient record

requiring only the unique identifier

Apollo EPMM reads data from

ophthalmic devices in their native format

and manages the images centrally.

How Apollo EPMM® works

Multimedia Captureat

Point of Care

Specialty Specific Workflow

Enterprise Clinical Multimedia Content

Management

EMR/EHR/VNA Integration

Multi-Organizational Collaboration

• Direct driver interface to legacy ophthalmic devices

• Collect media in native formats

• Background services• Imaging modality API• Video stream intercept• Batch manual import• Integrated device

specific viewers• Bar code

• Easy interface for clinicians

• Workflow fits into local ophthalmology needs

• “One Click” to save image to the patient record

• Specific image metadata

• Annotation capabilities• Clinical, research,

education and publication support

• Scalable• Utilize existing

platforms• Multimedia content

under IT management• HIPPA compliant• Evidentiary rules• Five tiered security• Centralized

management• Searchable• Leverage existing

storage and VNAs

• Single sign-on• Clinical multimedia

accessible in EMR• Real-time video

streaming from medical devices

• Collaboration - both intra-enterprise and extra-enterprise

• Multimedia consult management

• Output multimedia in vendor-neutral formats

Productivity improvement in the

workflow

Automatically associated with the

patient record

Enterprise cost savings and

increased assurance

Improved quality of care