DIGITAL IMAGING ADOPTION MODEL (DIAM)

Optimize your medical imaging and make access secure.

maturity models
Optimize your healthcare imaging capabilities

Measure capabilities related to the secure delivery of medical imaging to improve quality of care, patient safety and organizational efficiency in a systematic, holistic, and effective way.

  • Enhance your diagnostic accuracy

    DIAM guides you in adopting advanced imaging technologies that improve diagnostic precision and reduce the likelihood of errors.

  • Give patients access to their imaging

    You’ll enable patients to access their images and image-related reports, so they’ve got the information they need to shape their care journey.

  • Drive clinical and operational collaboration

    You’ll connect imaging technologies across multiple areas of your system to improve interoperability and multidisciplinary collaboration.

  • Improve patient safety and trust

    DIAM guides systems towards using simple digital imaging reports that are easier for patients to understand and discuss with their care team.

  • Optimize all your healthcare imaging

    DIAM helps systems improve diagnostic accuracy and make imaging data safe and accessible— to patients and providers.

  • Keep your workflows standardized and secure

    You’ll unify how you store, show and share medical images throughout your system, and develop policies for safe, confidential storage of patient imaging.

  • Reaching Diam Stage 7 shows that our medical imaging management system fully complies with international standards and is efficiently utilized with the patient's health as the top priority.

    Jean- Hyoung Lee

    Manager of IT Infrastructure, Samsung Medical Center

Your DIAM journey

Explore the stages of the DIAM implementation process and see how this solution will improve your management of digital imaging.

  • Little or no electronic management

    Your organization has not installed key enterprise and/or specialized imaging information systems for imaging acquisition (orders or encounters-based workflows), image-related reports and/or clinical notes, and/or digital image archiving, in at least two service areas (image-producing departments/units).

  • Electronic image management covering the service area(s)

    Key specialized medical imaging information systems are installed for managing image acquisition workflows (orders or encounters-based workflows), imaging-related reports and/or clinical notes, and/or digital image archiving, in at least two departments/service areas.

  • Electronic image management covering a variety of images across the enterprise

    Images and associated reports/clinical notes, created in at least three image-producing service areas or 80% of all medical images/videos produced in the organization, are accessed via multiple, unique links within the EMR (or similar enterprise-wide user interface).

  • Imaging governance and strategy

    An enterprise imaging strategy is in place, including appropriate governance and oversight. Clinical image acquisition and communication workflows are formalized, implemented and designed to support clinicians within their normal care processes. 
Imaging specialists can access all types of images/multimedia from a single point of entry that connects them directly to specialty clinical viewers as needed.

  • Fully integrated image management with efficient enterprise-wide image sharing

    Your organization makes use of an enterprise-centralized repository where image content is stored.
Clinical image, multimedia, and metadata capture and storage processes are standardized, enabling order and encounter-based image acquisition, and sharing workflows across the enterprise.

  • Advanced imaging analytics

    Clinical, organizational, and financial parameters are systematically tracked, benchmarked (internally and externally), and can be presented in real time through dashboards, balanced scorecards, etc. Your organization uses internal and external data for making predictions about needed therapies and examinations, follow-up measures, etc.

  • Clinical decision support and value-based imaging

    Systems are in place that are capable of providing feedback about the appropriateness to perform an examination based on patient preconditions, history and approved guidelines. Alternative examinations and suggestions for standardized care practices/best practice guidelines are directly integrated into the electronic workflow.

  • External image exchange and patient engagement

    The majority of image-producing service areas are exchanging and/or sharing images and reports and/or clinical notes based on recognized standards with care organizations of all types, including local, regional, or national health information exchanges.The application(s) used in image-producing service areas support multidisciplinary interactive collaboration. Patients can make appointments, access reports, and download images specific to them.

Talk to an expert about our maturity models

There's a HIMSS maturity model for everyone, and each model classifies a dimension of your digital health from Stages 0 to 7. Your system’s future starts right here.

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