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Chapter 6
Well Integrated: HCM in the Hospital IT
Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Thing about Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
HCM Integration: How It Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Hospital Information System (HIS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Document Management System (DMS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Clinical subsystems and modalities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Groups of institutions, cross-institutional files and
portals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
PART III
ROLLOUT OF AN HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 7
Is Your Institution Ready for HCM?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Look Before You Leap …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Digitization with HCM – who would benefit?. . . . . . . . . . . 68
Better not: in these cases you can do without HCM. . . . . 69
Velvet gloves instead of sledgehammer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
What else you should demonstrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 8
Let’s Do It: How to Implement Your HCM Project . 73
All Beginnings Are Hard? Not Necessarily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Leveraging workforce clout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
It always comes down to money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
One Thing at a Time: Implementation in Seven Steps. . . . . . . . 75
Step one: patient information from HIS to HCM. . . . . . . . 76
Step two: prepare structuring of data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Step three: ensuring archiving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Step four: access authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Step five: importing data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Step six: rolling out the multi-format viewer. . . . . . . . . . . 84
Step seven: sharing data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85