Enterprise imaging

Enterprise imaging has been defined as "a set of strategies, initiatives, and workflows implemented across a healthcare enterprise to consistently and optimally capture, index, manage, store, distribute, view, exchange, and analyze all clinical imaging and multimedia content to enhance the electronic health record".^[1] The concepts of enterprise imaging are elucidated in a series of papers by members of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Workgroup.^[2][3]

The use of the term enterprise imaging in this manner is relatively new, having previously been used to describe expanding access to radiology images throughout an enterprise.^[4][5] The concept of expanding PACS to include visible light imaging and other modalities beyond radiology and cardiology dates back to the relatively early days of PACS.^[6][7]

See also

• DICOM
• Digital Photography
• Vendor Neutral Archive
• Medical imaging
• Medical image sharing
• Data governance
• Picture archiving and communication system
• Medical specialty
• Medical photography
• Imaging informatics