title: Integration of healthcare information: from enterprise PACS to patient centered multimedia health record.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, Argentina. enrique.soriano@hospitalitaliano.org.ar
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Soriano
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Plazzotta
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaminker
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cancio
authors.forename: Jerónimo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aguilera Díaz
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luna
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seehaus
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carcía Mónaco
authors.forename: Fernán González Bernaldo
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: de Quirós
mesh_terms: 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