Enterprise Imaging Strategy
A STRATEGIC SOLUTION FROM INNOVATIVE
Supporting Your Care Team—and Your Patients
with a Comprehensive Approach to Medical Imaging
Innovative’s comprehensive process begins with identifying the tools, systems and processes that support provider diagnosis ultimately ensuring complete access to the entire patient longitudinal record through unified EMR access and an uninterrupted workflow.
The concept of (and complexities around) sharing and integrating medical data continues to be a key topic for healthcare—particularly when it comes to imaging data. The good news? The technology now exists to support seamless storage and transfer of this type of information—and it has the power to improve operations and patient care.
Considering an Enterprise Imaging Strategy?
Here’s what you need to know.
What it is
An enterprise imaging strategy is a comprehensive plan designed to guide the implementation and adoption of enterprise imaging solutions within a healthcare organization. This includes how enterprises save, store, view, and securely manage medical multimedia across departments and stakeholders.
Why you need it
A comprehensive approach to image management yields far-reaching results.
- RImproved operational efficiency
- REnhanced continuity of care
- REnriched patient engagement
- RBetter physician access
- RImproved collaboration across departments
- ROptimized end-user adoption and satisfaction
- RImproved regulatory compliance
- RCan support telehealth and mobile heath initiatives
How it works
Innovative’s approach ensures that all imaging functionalities are considered so that strategy deployment drives the best possible outcomes—for capture, storage, viewing, and interoperability/image sharing.
Key components of the process:
- Define and communicate enterprise objectives
- Assess current state and identify roadblocks
- Define requirements, goals, and governance
- Secure stakeholder support
- Develop detailed project plans with timelines and milestones
- Define procurement and implementation process
- Review progress and refine plan as needed
Why Innovative
Innovative brings more than 18 years of experience in radiology-specific implementations including PACS and various third-party applications. We get radiology workflows from both an operational and an IT-architecture perspective, and we use a proven, vender-agnostic process to lead you and your team to a best-fit enterprise imaging solution.
Partnerships that stand the test of time
20+
Years in HIT consulting
400+
Healthcare systems served
4.500
Engagements
15,000
HIT professionals in our network
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