The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) defines enterprise content management as “the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes.” Where does enterprise imaging fit into this definition?
For one, enterprise imaging provides the tools and strategies to manage a hospital delivery system’s imaging information wherever that information exists, independent of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS.) The exponential growth of digital data in healthcare, e.g. X-rays, mammograms, MRIs, CTs and nuclear imaging, from gigabytes to terabytes, requires better control of data.
4 Advantages to Enterprise Imaging
The American healthcare payment system often employs a “carrot and stick” approach to reimbursements. Radiologists are expressing their frustration at implementing a value-based program as dictated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Starting in 2015, physicians will face a 1.5% reimbursement reduction penalty for not meeting requirements, which could add up to more than just frustration.
Vendor neutral archives (VNAs) and enterprise imaging repositories are generating increasingly higher profits in the medical imaging sector. According to a study by global growth partnership and research firm, 
According to a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) 
Technology is drastically changing healthcare by putting infinite novels of patient data at physicians’ fingertips. Medical images in particular produce extremely large data files and plenty of them. But who owns all that data – your hospital or your patient? The answer is neither. (Source: 
