title: A Foundation for Enterprise Imaging: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper.
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.
authors.affiliation: Duke Health Technology Solutions, Hock Plaza, 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC, 27705, USA. Christopher.roth@duke.edu.|Department of Radiology, Duke University Hospital, 2301 Erwin Road, Box 3808, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. Christopher.roth@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.affiliation: Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic, 572 Lake Forest Dr., Bay Village, OH, 44140-2513, USA.
authors.forename: Louis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lannum
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic IT, 200 3rd Ave SW, Pb 2-58, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Persons
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D019212:Multimedia; D057188:Workflow
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