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Editor's e-Note
A visit to HIMSS 2014 showed how medical imaging is venturing out of the radiology department and into the enterprise. Just a few years ago, radiology was a small portion of the annual HIMSS conference; to be sure, EMR remains the star. But the vendor-neutral archive is growing as an approach to integrate images from across the enterprise into the EMR.

— Jim Knaub, editor
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VNA: More Than Just a New ‘A’ in PACS
By Jim Knaub

What would you want a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) to do for your organization? That was a hot question in the VNA-related education sessions and exhibits at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando late last month.

Some view a VNA as the last data migration they’ll ever need for their PACS, but that’s just one possible component of a VNA enterprise strategy. For example, Louis M. Lannum, director of enterprise imaging at the Cleveland Clinic, discussed his institution’s VNA project, which is designed to bring 60 different image-producing services from the clinic’s eight hospitals into one VNA and make those images accessible through its EMR system. Lannum said the organization’s IT team has worked through about one-half of those 60 services, and the project extends far beyond the radiology department. “Imaging decisions are no longer in the silo of radiology,” he said.

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