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Review
. 2016 Oct;29(5):530-8.
doi: 10.1007/s10278-016-9882-0.

A Foundation for Enterprise Imaging: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper

Christopher J Roth  1   2 , Louis M Lannum  3 , Kenneth R Persons  4
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A Foundation for Enterprise Imaging: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper

Christopher J Roth et al. J Digit Imaging. 2016 Oct.

Abstract

Care providers today routinely obtain valuable clinical multimedia with mobile devices, scope cameras, ultrasound, and many other modalities at the point of care. Image capture and storage workflows may be heterogeneous across an enterprise, and as a result, they often are not well incorporated in the electronic health record. Enterprise Imaging refers to a set of strategies, initiatives, and workflows implemented across a healthcare enterprise to consistently and optimally capture, index, manage, store, distribute, view, exchange, and analyze all clinical imaging and multimedia content to enhance the electronic health record. This paper is intended to introduce Enterprise Imaging as an important initiative to clinical and informatics leadership, and outline its key elements of governance, strategy, infrastructure, common multimedia content, acquisition workflows, enterprise image viewers, and image exchange services.

Keywords: Archive; Bioinformatics; Clinical image viewing; Diagnostic imaging; Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM); Electronic medical record (EMR); Enterprise PACS; Enterprise imaging; Image data; Image viewer; Imaging informatics; Imaging informatics administration; Multimedia; PACS; Systems integration.

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Fig. 1
An Enterprise Imaging platform provides the standards-based, enterprise infrastructure to support departmental imaging workflows. This includes modality worklist services, image archival, index, enterprise viewer application viewing within or outside the EHR, query/retrieve of imaging content from most departments, as well as image exchange capabilities
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Fig. 2
The broad spectrum of Enterprise Imaging content and common use cases
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