PACS as an element of the computerized patient record: a health care enterprise model

Kent Wreder; Eric Navarro

doi:10.1117/12.274628

22 May 1997 PACS as an element of the computerized patient record: a health care enterprise model

Kent Wreder, Eric Navarro

Proceedings Volume 3035, Medical Imaging 1997: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274628
Event: Medical Imaging 1997, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Business process automation utilizing information technology is a requirement today for business survival. This will also become true within the radiology department. Operational changes within the radiology department, supported or enabled by PACS, will be essential to every radiology department. Operational changes outside the radiology department are also supported or enabled by PACS, but in a different manner. Outside the radiology department, images are an element of information content utilized in the decision process. As such, PACS is an element of the computerized patient record (CPR). This paper will explore how business processes can be optimized utilizing information technology automation in constructing a CPR. AN object-oriented methodology is proposed to consistently and precisely describe both the business process and the required automation to be provided by the CPR. By customizing the CPR user interfaces, the information technology department is able to support the creation of truly optimized automated business processes. The underlying technical foundation that enables creating fully customized user interfaces into the CPR is the system architecture. It also provides access to CPR functionality and information independent of a predefined, static, user interface.

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Kent Wreder and Eric Navarro "PACS as an element of the computerized patient record: a health care enterprise model", Proc. SPIE 3035, Medical Imaging 1997: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, (22 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274628

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