Transcript PACS EPR Integration

PACS EPR Integration
Via Meditech’s PCS EMR Solution
Rex Osborn
How does MEDITECH work with a
PACs system?
Steps 1 & 2
1. MEDITECH automatically transmits patient
demographic data, exam information, and
results from departmental applications to
PACS
2. MEDITECH’s HCIS working with industry
standard PACS, allows clinicians to view
radiology images and a patients record,
simultaneously
Steps 3 & 4
3. Clinicians simply click on the icon to view patients’
images and read any reports associated with those
exams.
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Clinicians are pointed directly to the desired
patients exams and reports residing on the PACs.
No need to re-identify patients or exams.
4. Image statuses are passed from PACs into
MEDITECH’s Enterprise Medical Record, so
clinicians viewing patients’ records immediately know
both the availability of images and the status of any
exams.
How Meditech Communicates w/ PACS
PACS Integration
PACS Data FlowRequirements
to Meditech
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Patient Data
Scheduling Data
Orders
Reports
Patient data
Order
Information
MPPS
Validation
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Meditech
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Study Data
Patient Data
Scheduling
Data
Orders
Reports
RIS-PACS
Interface
To achieve the workflow and automatic data validation
benefits of PACS, organizations must have tight
integration between their HIS/RIS, modalities and
PACS.
PACS
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Data Validation
Image Routing
Pre-fetching
On-Demand
Query
Interfaces Required Between
PACS & MEDITECH
TCP
/ IP (HL7 Network)
MEDITECH Admission /
Discharge/Transfer Information
to PACS vendor (Uni-directional)
MEDITECH Imaging & Therapeutic Services Orders and
Status Updates to PACS system (Bi-directional)
MEDITECH Imaging & Therapeutic Services Reports to
PACS system (Uni-directional)
PACS system status updates to
MEDITECH Imaging & Therapeutic
Services Application (Uni-directional)
Accessing Images @ the EHR a.k.a HCIS