From the January 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Enterprise imaging strategy
The enterprise imaging program is a strategic initiative to capture all digital medical imaging, securely store it and make it accessible and viewable as part of the EMR. It offers an organization a program to begin to manage clinical content that is being acquired in departments throughout the organization and begin to align the departments' imaging initiatives with a broader enterprise-focused approach to image management and access.
Keys to the enterprise imaging strategy
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Develop a governance model to provide oversight and direction for the new strategic model of enterprise-image management across all health care facilities and departments within the organization. The governance group provides a forum for collaboration between and across independent departments. One of the primary challenges facing organizations is a service line imaging focus rather than a broader enterprise approach to image management and access.
A group comprised of senior executives, institute champions and imaging leaders from across an organization elevates the imaging discussion out of the siloed departments and assures that the management and access of imaging content is a strategic initiative. Identify opportunities within the organization to integrate an imaging service line that will allow for the capture, storage and access to clinical imaging. As you assess the scope of
imaging within your health care system, you will begin to understand and document the storage and the workflow requirements that will allow a department to take advantage of the imaging technology platform and integrate their imaging content into an enterprise program. The assessment will also allow your organization to provide image management services for departments using point-of-care image capture devices such as portable ultrasound and handheld mobile devices.
Understanding the storage requirements allows organization to develop an enterprise storage solution which aggregates, organizes and indexes all imaging information into a single repository. It is the organization of these images that is the real value of the program. The storage of images and unstructured content is an easy solution. There are organizations that routinely collect and store unstructured data in servers spread across the enterprise. However, it has been demonstrated that without thoughtful indexing and “enterprise” naming conventions, this data will be hard to find and nearly impossible to share.
