The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine are making progress tackling the issues associated with incomplete data in patients' digital health records.
Founded a year ago, the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Workgroup is focused on unmanaged – and sometimes missing – imaging data in patients' electronic health history.
“Despite widespread electronic health record implementations, many patients and doctors find the majority of their clinical data lies in poorly integrated diagnostic image, documentation image and clinical scanned document silos,” Christopher Roth, MD, vice chair of radiology and director of imaging informatics strategy at Duke Health, said in a statement.
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This is where the workgroup comes in, HIMSS and SIMM members point out.
The group offers a platform for sharing enterprise imaging strategies, creating awareness that images are an essential part of the electronic health record, inclusive of, yet broader than the more pervasive radiology or cardiology domains.
“This joint effort between HIMSS and SIIM highlights the importance of this topic and provides timely resources that offer organizations insights on how to manage and share imaging data across the enterprise,” Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS vice president, informatics, HIMSS North America, said in a statement.
In its first year, the workgroup has addressed critical topics resulting in the publication of several whitepapers.
Among them: Enterprise Imaging Governance: Needs, Models, and Intents to Consider; The Current State and Path Forward for Enterprise Image Viewing; A Foundation for Enterprise Imaging; Orders Versus Encounters Based Image Capture: Implications Pre- and Post-Procedure Workflow, Technical and Build Capabilities, Resulting, Analytics and Revenue Capture; Workflow Challenges of Enterprise Imaging; Technical Challenges of Enterprise Imaging, and Considerations for Exchanging and Sharing Medical Images for Improved Collaboration and Patient Care.
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