PACS administrators should lead strategic shift to enterprise imaging

Paul Chang, MD, University of Chicago
Medicine

As many health care organizations move from radiology-centric PACS systems to enterprise imaging, the challenge of making it all work to improve workflow for providers and patients requires a paradigm shift in thinking, says Paul Chang, MD, professor of radiology and vice chair of radiology informatics at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Dr. Chang has been a leader in imaging informatics and is a sought after speaker at major health care IT symposia including HIMSS, SIIM and RSNA, where he will be presenting and leading several discussions at RSNA 2014, Nov. 30 - Dec. 5. He is an outspoken advocate for strategic thinking in the development of health care enterprise IT.

“The PACS administrator must establish a comprehensive framework, a strategic perspective toward enterprise imaging,” he told PARCA eNews by phone. “It is not just how to get images outside the firewall, or how to get cardiology online, what is needed is a reproducible methodology."

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