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| Louis Lannum, director enterprise imaging, Cleveland Clinic |
Among the next biggest challenges facing imaging IT professionals is to integrate imaging across the enterprise into EMR systems, which is why PARCA launched its Certified Healthcare Enterprise Architect, or CHEA certification last year. The Cleveland Clinic successfully completed its enterprise imaging system, called MyPractice nearly two years ago. To find out how they did it, PARCA talked with The Cleveland Clinic’s Louis Lannum and Kimberley Garriott. Mr. Lannum heads the enterprise imaging team that systematically integrated nearly any image, regardless of its capture modality, into a Clinical Imaging Library and integrated it into the patient EMR. Ms. Garriott joined Cleveland Clinic’s MyPractice Imaging team in 2011 as program manager for design and implementation of the enterprise imaging strategy. Both will be speaking at SIIMS 2014,
May 15-17 in Long Beach, and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention in San Diego in September. The Cleveland Clinic now offers their expertise in a consulting service for other health systems through MyPractice Imaging Solutions.
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| Kimberley Garriott, program manager, enterprise imaging, Cleveland Clinic |
Q. How did the Cleveland Clinic’s enterprise imaging program get started?
A. Lou – Radiology purchased a system to replace their legacy PACS and also bought a VNA as part of that strategy. Our ITD, Information Technology Division, took advantage of that VNA and created an enterprise program where we went out and developed workflows and image management strategies for other imaging departments.
