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: