The key to effective medical imaging implementation is integration with Electronic Health Records (EHR) and making images available across the enterprise, according Dr. Gary Wendt in this EHR video presentation, “Enterprise Archive: A Uniform Image-Archive Approach.”
Dr. Wendt, enterprise director of medical imaging and vice-chair of informatics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the first step—and one of the most vital—to integrating a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) into an EHR is to consider the perspectives of different stakeholder groups.
In the EHR video, Dr. Wendt identifies 4 stakeholder groups and the factors a PACS implementation team must consider for each:
CEOs: Concerned with business development, attracting new patients, eliminating redundant systems
CIOs: Concerned with cost-effectiveness, scalability of a system, business continuity during implementation
Chiefs of Each Imaging Service: Concerned with limited resources, the effectiveness of their department and the equipment that will make their department more productive
Patients: Concerned with managing their own patient records, including images
Watch the full EHR video to discover how to take these individual needs into consideration to successfully integrate a PACS.
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