Journal of Digital Imaging Open Access Article

Christopher J. Roth, David A. Clunie, David J. Vining, Seth J. Berkowitz, Alejandro Berlin, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette, Shawn D. Clark, Toby C. Cornish, Monief Eid, Cree M. Gaskin, Alexander K. Goel, Genevieve C. Jacobs, David Kwan, Damien M. Luviano, Morgan P. McBee, Kelly Miller, Abdul Moiz Hafiz, Ceferino Obcemea, Anil V. Parwani, Veronica Rotemberg, Elliot L. Silver, Erik S. Storm, James E. Tcheng, Karen S. Thullner & Les R. Folio

Abstract

Diagnostic and evidential static image, video clip, and sound multimedia are captured during routine clinical care in cardiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, pathology, physiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, endoscopic procedural specialties, and other medical disciplines. Providers typically describe the multimedia findings in contemporaneous electronic health record clinical notes or associate a textual interpretative report. Visual communication aids commonly used to connect, synthesize, and supplement multimedia and descriptive text outside medicine remain technically challenging to integrate into patient care. Such beneficial interactive elements may include hyperlinks between text, multimedia elements, alphanumeric and geometric annotations, tables, graphs, timelines, diagrams, anatomic maps, and hyperlinks to external educational references that patients or provider consumers may find valuable. This HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community workgroup white paper outlines the current and desired clinical future state of interactive multimedia reporting (IMR). The workgroup adopted a consensus definition of IMR as “interactive medical documentation that combines clinical images, videos, sound, imaging metadata, and/or image annotations with text, typographic emphases, tables, graphs, event timelines, anatomic maps, hyperlinks, and/or educational resources to optimize communication between medical professionals, and between medical professionals and their patients.” This white paper also serves as a precursor for future efforts toward solving technical issues impeding routine interactive multimedia report creation and ingestion into electronic health records.

Publish Date

Jun 15, 2021

Topic

  • HIMSS-SIIM

Resource Type

  • White Paper

Audience Type

  • Clinician
  • Developer
  • Imaging IT
  • Researcher/Scientist

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