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Chapter 3
What Can an HCM System Do that
Other Systems Can’t?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Taking Stock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Hospital Information System (HIS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Clinical Document Management System (DMS) . . . . . . . . 34
Universal Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Picture Archiving and Communication
System (PACS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Information systems or clinical subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4
HCM and Digital Files/Portals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Help! Yet Another Major IT Project?!?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Potential Routes of Digital Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The HCM System as a Trailblazer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
The HCM System as a Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
HCM and IHE-XDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
And what does all of this have to do with the HCM
system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
PART II
PREREQUISITES FOR AN HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 5
Components of an HCM System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Get in the Data: The Date Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Less Is More: Harmonization of Data Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Good Plan: Classification of Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Safely Stowed: The Data Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Stay Up To Date: The Data Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Private Party: The Access Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Different if the need arises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Seeing Precedes Comprehension: The Multi-Format
Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Multi-format viewer as a separate system – is that even
possible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Let It Out: Data Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Put It into Cold Storage: Archive Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53