ETIAM showcased new features to its ETIAM-Connect image sharing and management system at HIMSS 2013. Debuting is a new analytics dashboard (or functionality) that tracks enterprise image activity, including volume and destination of outside images, movement of images within the hospital, and external image sharing. In addition, for outside images entering the enterprise, ETIAM also introduced enhanced automated reconciliation of patient identifiers to seamlessly incorporate outside images in an internal PACS.
The increased cross-enterprise image exchange necessitates ingestion of appropriate images in the enterprise PACS. Automation of the process is extremely beneficial. ETIAM’s automatic reconciliation of patient identifiers ensures information integrity and streamlines image communications throughout the hospital and appropriate incorporation in the PACS.
With ETIAM-Connect, all medical images entering a facility on CD and DVD can be directly transferred from the clinical department involved to the enterprise PACS or other IT system accessible by all clinicians, with a complete management and automation of patient information reconciliation. The system also handles non-standard DICOM such as iSite, Amicas, and SCImage images.
If desired, the institution can decide to import into the PACS only select studies and temporarily store others on a web-accessible local ETIAM server, where they can be accessed by all clinicians as needed. This enables broad image access without storing images of patients seen on a consultative basis only.
