POCUS Has Arrived: Does Your System’s Workflow Need to Catch Up?

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is transforming clinical workflows, allowing clinicians to make quick, informed decisions at the bedside. But as POCUS use grows, healthcare systems face challenges in workflow integration, image management, and maintaining consistent standards.

Join us to explore the evolution and modernization of POCUS workflows, focusing on solutions for image archival, governance, and seamless IT-clinician integration. We’ll provide a historical overview of POCUS management, common compliance gaps, and real-life examples of successful POCUS integrations with existing imaging systems.

Objectives

• Define point-of-care ultrasound and establish use cases in clinical care.
• Describe the historical context of POCUS image archival and bring you up to date with modern POCUS managers.
• Define key governance features of a POCUS workflow solution and construct the relationship that needs to exist between clinician-POCUS users and IT.
• Illustrate real-life examples of how POCUS can interface with the Imaging system.

Resources

• Navigating Challenges as Ultrasound Goes Mobile.
• Report of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation Workgroup: Anatomic Ontology Assessment.

CE Credit

SIIM has approved this activity for 1.0 hours of SIIM IIP Credits towards certification and re-certification by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII).