Paul J. Chang MD, Presenter: Co-founder, Stentor/Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV Technical Advisory Board, Amirsys, Inc Research Contracts, Koninklijke Philips NV Medical Advisory Board, lifeIMAGE Inc Medical Advisory Board, Merge Healthcare Incorporated

1) The participant will be introduced to the importance of information system integration and interoperability to support modern radiology workflow. 2) Examples of practical integration strategies that have been used successfully (e.g. web viewer EHR integration, single sign-on, RIS vs PACS driven workflow) will be discussed. 3) Advanced integration strategies, including using vendor APIs, state aggregation, SOA, and IHE, will be presented.

Modern radiology workflow requires consumption, choreography, and orchestration of content from multiple disparate information systems that do not natively “talk to each other.” Without optimal integration and interoperability amongst these systems, humans are required to serve as “integrating agents:” this frequently results in inefficiency and error. This session will provide an introduction to the importance of system integration and will provide a practical introduction to commonly used integration strategies. In addition, more advanced integration approaches, including leveraging vendor APIs (application programming interfaces), IHE, and SOA (service oriented architecture) will be discussed.  

Chang, P, Interoperability and Integration—from HL7, DICOM, IHE, to SOA.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/12020283.html