BANGOR — Maine doctors will have access to patient X-rays, mammograms and other medical images regardless of their location as part of a new electronic archive described as a first-in-the-nation initiative.
The archive is expected to free health care providers from the hassle and cost of copying scans to CDs when a doctor wants to review patient medical images taken by another provider.
Piloted by HealthInfoNet, the state’s health information exchange, the archive is being tested by three health care organizations. The program launches today at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta and Waterville.
Officials tell the Bangor Daily News the archive is expected to save $6 million over seven years by sparing providers the cost of storing and transporting medical image records, plus the expense of paying staff to hunt for them.
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