Integrating an enterprise image distribution system into an existing electronic medical record system

Robert M. Witt; Robert Morrow

doi:10.1117/12.480679

19 May 2003 Integrating an enterprise image distribution system into an existing electronic medical record system

Robert M. Witt, Robert Morrow

Proceedings Volume 5033, Medical Imaging 2003: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480679
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The enterprise distribution of radiology images should be integrated into the same application that physicians obtain other clinical information about their patients. Over the past year the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center has provided enterprise access to radiology images after integrating a commercial web-based image distribution system (Stentor, Brisbane, CA) with the Department of Veterans Affairs internally developed Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS). The application, CPRS, serves as the foundation for the VHA to implement an electronic medical record (EMR). We developed the necessary program communications between the CPRS application and the image distribution application to link the request for a report to a request for the corresponding images. When a physician selects a given radiology report in CPRS the text of the report displays in CPRS and the image application loads the corresponding image study. We found that the requests for film jackets decreased over fifty percent six months after full implementation of the enterprise image distribution system. We have found the integration of the image access and display application into an existing patient information system to be very successful.

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Robert M. Witt and Robert Morrow "Integrating an enterprise image distribution system into an existing electronic medical record system", Proc. SPIE 5033, Medical Imaging 2003: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation, (19 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480679

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Radiology

Computing systems

Medical imaging

Picture Archiving and Communication System

Standards development

Medicine

Human-machine interfaces

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