Abstract
The effective delivery of health care has become increasingly dependent on a wide range of medical data that includes a variety of images. Manual and computer-based medical records ordinarily do not contain image data, leaving the physician to deal with a fragmented patient record widely scattered throughout the hospital. The Department of Veterans Affairs is currently installing a prototype hospital information system workstation network to demonstrate the feasibility of providing image management and communications functionality as an integral part of an existing hospital information system. The core of this system is a data base management system adapted to handle images as a new data type. A general model for this network-based integration is discussed and various alternative architectures are examined.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Shannon, RH: IMACS and Radiology: Defining the Problems, First International Conference on Image Management and Communication, Washington DC, 1989
McCoy W: The Software Services Backplane, Presented at the VA Symposium on High-Speed Communications in Support of Images in Hospital Information Systems, Washington DC, 1989
Arenson RL, Seshadri SB, Kundel HL, et al: PACS at Penn, Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging III, 1989, pp 50–59
Levine B, Meissner M, Benson H, et al: Integration of a RIS with an IMACS. Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging III, 1989, pp 183–191
Lodder H, van Poppel BM, de Valk JP, et al: HIS-PACS Coupling in practice. Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging III, 1989, pp 301–306
Boehme J, Choplin RH, Maynard D: Early experience in interfacing PACS to RIS. Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging, III, 1989, pp 589–595
ACR-NEMA Digital Imaging and Communications Standard 300-1985, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Wash DC
Prior F, Nabijee KH: Information Management for Data Retrieval in a PACS. Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging III, 1989, pp 488–497
HL7 Application Protocol for Electronic Data Exchange in Health Care Environment (HL7), HL7 Working Group, c/o S Schultz II, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Kuljian Bldg, 2nd Floor, 3700 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers P1157: Medical Data Interchange Standard (MEDIX), Jack Harrington, Chair, Hewlett Packard, 300 Minuteman Rd, Andover, MA 01810
Dayhoff, RE: Multimedia databases in MUMPS: An object-oriented approach. MUG Quarterly 18(4):15–18, 1989
Brannigan V: Procurement of Hospital Information Systems in the Federal Republic of Germany, MUG Quarterly, 17(3):13–19, 1987-88
VA Fileman Used Worldwide, US Medicine, July 1990
Decentralized Hospital Computer Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Information Resources Management Office, Washington, DC 20420, 1989
Dayhoff RE: A medical image database system using a write once optical disk. Proc 11th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Washington DC, 1987, pp 549–552
Dayhoff, RE, Maloney DL, Shepard BM: Integration of Images with the Veterans Affairs Hospital Information System in a Distributed Environment, Proc of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1989
Dayhoff RE, Maloney DL: Providing PACS Functionality as an Integral Part of an Existing Hospital Information System, Proc Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Medical Imaging IV, 1990
von Blankensee HT: VA DHCP Replacement Systems: VAXclusters for the 90’s. Proc of the 1989 MUMPS Users’ Group Meeting, MUG Quarterly 19(1):80–81, 1989
Dayhoff RE, Maloney DL, Kuzmak PM, et al: Demonstration of Dept of VA’s Hospital Wide Image Workstation Network System, Proc of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1990
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
This is a US government work. There are no restrictions on its use.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Dayhoff, R.E., Maloney, D.L., Kuzmak, P.M. et al. Integrating medical images into hospital information systems. J Digit Imaging 4, 87–93 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03170416
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03170416