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= Enterprise Imaging =

Definition
The collaborative HIMSS-SIIM member workgroup on the Definition of Enterprise Imaging defines Enterprise Imaging 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.”

History
The first foundations of the Enterprise Imaging were published in May 2016 which represented the first formal definition of Enterprise Imaging. The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Workgroup continues to deliver guidelines and recommendations as of April 2021.

The need driving Enterprise Imaging initiatives
As EHRs were installed, enterprises learned that many care groups had similarly isolated and fragmented approaches to image management. Enterprises also learned that many specialties had similar image capture, image storage, and image distribution unmet needs. In many clinical specialties, such as dermatology or endoscopy, textual descriptions of an image often scream for the image itself; supplementing text with the images better conveys information. Enterprise Imaging as a program or initiative developed as a result of the unmet need to clinically support imaging workflows, procure and manage scalable IT infrastructure, develop operational policy, and centralize governance and communications to accommodate the full body of enterprise multimedia clinical content, the imaging of a health enterprise.

Ongoing Work
The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise imaging working group further expanded the concepts into a series of open-access whitepapers which provide guidelines and recommendations to the Society for Imaging informatics in Medicine   and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) communities.