par
Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | February 12, 2018
From the January/February 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Who’s in charge here?
Imaging has historically been under the control of radiology, but now that it’s entering the greater hospital enterprise, will that continue to be the case? At some health care organizations, imaging has become the core responsibility of the IT department.
“To the hospital CIO who thinks of imaging ultimately as part of the EHR, it would seem most logical to have the people whose core expertise is IT, storage and backup to have responsibility for that,” says Siegel. Unfortunately, he adds, there is a precedent for radiology departments, which may operate at all hours of the day and night, to be more responsive to technical issues than conventional hospital IT staff.
Ad Statistics
Times Displayed: 2157
Times Visited: 29 Keep biomedical devices ready to go, so care teams can be ready to care for patients. GE HealthCare’s ReadySee™ helps overcome frustrations due to lack of network and device visibility, manual troubleshooting, and downtime.
Eighty-six percent of the CIOs that took part in the LifeIMAGE survey reported that their IT department owns enterprise imaging either exclusively or as a shared initiative with their radiology departments. In addition, almost half of them believe that a successful enterprise image strategy requires shared responsibility.
Back to HCB News
