Rialto Platform: Publish. Discover. Retrieve.

Is it possible to connect different points of patient care, enabling healthcare providers to publish, store, discover, and retrieve clinical patient information across healthcare enterprises?

Yes, it is. Rialto is a software platform that establishes clinical information exchange and storage networks to supply healthcare professionals with relevant patient information at the point of care, anytime, anywhere.

The Rialto platform constructs and maintains clinical information exchange and storage networks based on medical industry standards to ensure interoperability. An intelligent network infrastructure of interfaces, routers and engines, Rialto’s services and tools combine to establish a bridge between different points of patient care. Instances of Rialto are distributed throughout the network to create an exchange layer that facilitates communication between previously incompatible information systems, data formats, standards, and terminologies. Rialto is network aware and handles service request routing to appropriate providers, transforming information into the requester’s required format.

As a result, Rialto enables stakeholders within the exchange network to publish and share new patient data into the network, or to store, discover and retrieve reports, lab results and even images, that are published to Rialto by other practitioners. The benefits to the patient are obvious: all healthcare providers along their care pathway have secure access to a complete set of medical information, helping providers make better informed medical decisions thereby improving clinical outcomes.

Rialto is a software platform designed to construct and maintain clinical information exchange and storage networks. Rialto indexes all patient health information and ensures the patient health record is available to each healthcare participant along the patient’s care pathway.

The Rialto platform provides many benefits to institutions and vendors seeking to achieve true interoperability and collaboration:

• Rialto provides a simple interface for clinical information exchange. Rialto handles all underlying complexity required to enable participation in the exchange network
• Rialto insulates participants from evolution of the network, thereby allowing incremental development of the exchange network. As the exchange network evolves over time and new participants are added, existing participants can continue seamless use of the network
• Rialto is highly scalable. Built upon industry open standards such as IHE XDS for interoperability, Rialto’s open architecture scales to solve current connectivity problems, while accommodating network growth as participants are added over time
• Rialto leverages existing investments. Rialto facilitates communication with existing legacy systems, as well as leveraging systems that comply with modern open standards
• Provides data persistency using object-based storage, eliminating the need for costly hardware and reducing reliance on expansive middleware, SAN or NAS bases storage technologies while enabling scalable and reliable content storage
• Rialto captures complete audit trails, and allows full analysis of network usage
• Rialto provides network-wide configuration and monitoring tools through a well-designed web interface, ensuring that administration is simple and straight-forward
• Rialto separates models for storage from exchange, eliminating the need for a centralized authority and ensuring that participants maintain control over published information
• Rialto ensures compliance with privacy legislation and adherence to security and privacy requirements. Access to information is secure and patient details are protected