VARIOUS ASPECTS OF E-HEALTH SOLUTIONS BASED ON PACS/RIS AND THE CHALLENGES THEY MAY POSE FOR THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXECUTIVE

Abstract

Wide expansion of digital solutions into the health care and, in particular, into the diagnostics made their assessment and choice a key challenge for a Chief Medical Officer, also a complicated as an important one. As a result of the various governmental programs of health care modernization and development as well as highly intense growth of private medicine market, numerous contemporary radiological systems are serving in medical centers and clinics now processing large-scale clinical data on a daily basis that are to be managed effectively. The paper reviews major scripts of medical images management and gives practical tips to the Heads of various medical facilities on the effective installation and modernization of RACS/RIS systems. The special attention is given to the risks of different approaches to medical image processing in view of incremental popularization of e-health technologies in Russian health care system. The paper is intended for the healthcare administrators, the Heads of Radiology Departments, the Heads of MRI/CT Centers and other specialists interested in efficiency improvement of medical images management and e-health systems within their companies.