All aboard the Digital Imaging Adoption Model

DIAM Scale indicates where an organization is in terms
of digital imaging 

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PARCA eNews – Jan. 25, 2019 – HiMSS is extending the Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM) into the area of Enterprise Imaging (EI). 

In collaboration with professional societies including the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EUSOMII), in addition to highly regarded subject matter experts, the organization is expanding its DIAM initiative.

What is DIAM?

The objective of the DIAM eight-stage model is to assess and benchmark healthcare organizations’ ability to use information technology in medical imaging for the purpose of improving workflows, increase patient safety and improve quality of care.

The model includes the key factors needed to successfully and comprehensively implement, deploy and enable enterprise imaging capabilities. At the bottom level of the model, an organization has no electronic imaging management. At the top of the scale the enterprise is able to use analytics for key performance indicators for clinical, organizational and financial tracking. The idea is that the system uses statistics and clinical activities to personalize and improve patient care.

In between the DIAM model measure imaging IT infrastructure both for single service lines and enterprise wide, workflow and process security and integration of digitized image management.

The short summary is the DIAM allows an organization to identify and adopt the right digital strategy to improve patient outcomes.

You can get your DIAM score by filling out the survey. Click here to get the link to the survey.