Remote Reporting for Imaging (TeleRadiology) - Proposal

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1. Proposed Workitem: Remote Reporting for Imaging (TeleRadiology) Workflow Definition

  • Proposal Editor: Chris Lindop
  • Editor: <Name of candidate Lead Editor for the Profile, if known>
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  • Domain: Radiology

2. The Problem

Cross-Enterprise or Community Diagnostic Image Sharing Repositories is a growing service internationally and has proven effective for sharing of previously acquired images and reports. The current IHE XDS-I.b infrastructure effectively supports this. eReferral specifies a Workflow Definition for community referral. This WD does manage patient referrals for imaging. eReferral does not address the remote reading of images outside of the initial referral or sharing of priors.

Cross-enterprise image sharing, beyond this initial step has the capability to attain efficiencies and reduce cost at a macro-scale level:

  • Improve throughput of radiology depts by allowing any radiologist in the community to read and report a study
  • Align the number of resources (staff, equipment) with the needs of the community as opposed to considering individual hospitals only
  • Facilitate assignment of studies to physicians that are best qualified to read them (e.g., a SPECT expert may be leveraged across the community)

Currently, to meet this need, HCIT suppliers have built proprietary systems with non-standard methods for managing this workflow.

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4. Standards and Systems

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