Enterprise Imaging: The Next Frontier in Healthcare Technology–A Liturature Review.
Traditional picture archiving and communication systems allow users to create images, store them in large data
banks and then retrieve them for viewing or processing.
For many years this has been the standard system that health institutions have
used to manage their image data within their imaging departments.
However, each PACS vendor utilizes their own proprietary ‘digital
imaging and communications in medicine’ standard format to increase their own system performance significantly.
Due to this, DICOM files from independent institutions are in different
formats unrecognizable by other PACS. Vendor neutral archives have been developed to address this fundamental issue.
To remove the restrictions on health institutions, they normalize the
proprietary DICOM format to allow for image exchange.
They have also improved on other issues of PACS including the removal
of upgrading the entire system and in the case of
cloud-based software the need for physical storage centres.
These developments have all lead to the evolution of enterprise imaging. Enterprise
imaging offers improved efficiencies in data management
through the creation of a comprehensive program intended to facilitate
multi institutional image sharing. The key characteristics of enterprise imaging and strategies to the implementation of the system are discussed and explored in this liturature review.
Several white papers created by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society and Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine have
addressed strategies and key characteristics that define
what enterprise imaging is and how it should be implemented.
For a modern healthcare institution, there is a high demand for
data infrastructure that can provide quick, easy and reliable access
to imaging results and store large and complex data files for patient records.
Radiol Open J. 2019; 3(1): 4-11. doi: 10.17140/ROJ-3-119
