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1 1 3 J U N E 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E D I G I T A L O R would be the story of the patient," says one physician. "Now, with integrating the images into the electronic record, you get a much more comprehensive view of the patient's surgical history." Challenges of video integration Your job is to manage the clinical imaging workflow, to make sure your surgeons can view and manipulate the images and video that they capture both during and after the case. Displaying images in operative and endoscopic suites is the easy part. Storing and routing those images to the patient's EHR — and ensuring that your docs have secure on-demand access — is the real challenge. You'd think it'd be easy to find a comprehensive image management solution that lets surgeons view and manipulate video and images intra-operatively and post-operatively. But there are 4 major hurdles we're still trying to clear. • First, there are dozens of different image-capture devices in your ORs — scope video, X-rays, ultrasounds, MRIs and CTs. Importing all of these different imaging modalities is technically difficult. You want to find an image management vendor that can get all of these devices to "speak to each other" and store all of these images into one central storage deposi- tory. • Second, you want your system to associate the appropriate patient demographics to the images at the time of room setup. You don't want your OR staff typing patient demographics on the image acquisition device. This needless step creates the potential for data entry error (mistyped medical record number or name, for example). You want a system that supports the integration of multiple image-capture devices regardless of the vendor. Most of today's image management solutions can decipher imaging from a variety of vendor devices, but they can't interpret the patient demographic data unless it's generated Tips for Seamless Video Integration OSE_1406_part2_Layout 1 6/13/14 11:42 AM Page 113