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Patient Information System

In 1998, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) began a joint initiative called Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) to "bring together healthcare professionals, vendors, and IT executives to develop a framework within existing industry standards, which enables plug-and-play interoperability among systems from different vendors" (Vegoda, 2004)). This allows patient information to be transferred within and between departments seamlessly among systems so that caregivers can access all relevant patient information throughout the health system, and thus provide them with optimal care.

IHE is necessary because providing patients with optimal h4ealthcare requires that physicians have access to all relevant information concerning the patient (IHE, 2003). Currently, patient data is stored in many different systems which do not communicate effectively. Redundant entry of data can lead to errors and mismatches, and case decisions may have to be made without all pertinent data being available. IHE is designed to aid the flow of information between various personnel involved in a patient's care. It does not create new standards, but promotes the adoption of standards to meet specific clinical needs (HIMSS, 2004).

The IHE has "defined a common language within the Human Level-7 (HL-7) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards, which removes the ambiguity when discussing the interactions of processes within the systems" (Vegoda, 2004). DICOM is the standard for transferal of radiological images and other medical information between computers, and enables digital communication between diagnostic and therapeutic equipment and systems from various manufacturers (RSNA, 2004). This connectivity is important for the sake of cost-effectiveness in healthcare systems. DICOM can provide radiology services within a facility or across a...

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