Six considerations that separate a true enterprise imaging strategy from a departmental one.
Health systems are pulling imaging out of departmental silos and putting it in the patient record. Emergency, wound care, trauma and dermatology all generate images that clinicians need to see in the chart. Yet many imaging strategies are still designed as if radiology were the only consumer. The result is imaging stranded in departmental systems, downtime plans that have never been tested, and access controls no one owns.
This paper covers the six decisions that separate an enterprise imaging strategy from a radiology one: image-enabling the EHR, downtime access, ransomware recovery, AI readiness, and routing rules.