Integration of healthcare information: from enterprise PACS to patient centered multimedia health record.
Every single piece of healthcare information should be fully integrated and transparent within the electronic health record. The Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires initiated the project Multimedia Health Record with the goal to achieve this integration while maintaining a holistic view of current structure of the systems of the Hospital, where the axis remains are the patient and longitudinal history, commencing with section Computed Tomography. Was implemented DICOM standard for communication and image storage and bought a PACS. It was necessary adapt our generic reporting system for live up to the commercial RIS. The Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanners of our hospital were easily integrated into the DICOM network and all the CT Scans generated by our radiology service were stored in the PACS, reported using the Structured Reporting System (we installed diagnostic terminals equipped with 3 monitors) and displayed in the EHR at any point of HIBA's healthcare network.
Soriano
Enrique
E
Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, Argentina. enrique.soriano@hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Plazzotta
Fernando
F
Campos
Fernando
F
Kaminker
Diego
D
Cancio
Alfredo
A
Aguilera Díaz
Jerónimo
J
Luna
Daniel
D
Seehaus
Alberto
A
Carcía Mónaco
Ricardo
R
de Quirós
Fernán González Bernaldo
FG
D001118:Argentina; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018511:Systems Integration