Enterprise imaging has been defined as "a set of strategies, initiatives, and workflows implemented across a healthcare enterprise to consistently and optimally capture, index, manage, store, distribute, view, exchange, and analyze all clinical imaging and multimedia content to enhance the electronic health record".
[1] The concepts of enterprise imaging are elucidated in a series of papers by members of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Workgroup.
[2][3] The use of the term enterprise imaging in this manner is relatively new, having previously been used to describe expanding access to radiology images throughout an enterprise.
[4][5] The concept of expanding PACS to include visible light imaging and other modalities beyond radiology and cardiology dates back to the relatively early days of PACS.
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