Imaging Informatics: Transition from Radiology to the Enterprise at Scottsdale Healthcare

James Whitfill, MD, CMO, Scottsdale Health Partners:  Imaging, once a radiology function for image capture, storage and display, is evolving to the Enterprise.  With this brings opportunity to extend image management technologies to other departments, and to apply IT processes like SOA and IT Service Management to PACS, and image enable the EMR.  Dr. Whitfill discusses how the visual and workflow components of imaging informatics requires special attention differing from the management of other enterprise systems.