Multispecialty Enterprise Imaging Workgroup Consensus on Interactive Multimedia Reporting Current State and Road to...

Area of Science:

• Medical Informatics
• Clinical Communication
• Enterprise Imaging

Background:

• Healthcare generates vast amounts of diagnostic multimedia (images, videos, sound) during routine clinical care across various specialties.
• Current clinical notes or textual reports often fail to fully integrate and leverage this multimedia data effectively.
• Interactive visual communication tools, common outside medicine, are difficult to integrate into clinical workflows.

Purpose of the Study:

• To outline the current and future state of interactive multimedia reporting (IMR) in clinical practice.
• To define IMR through a consensus definition.
• To identify technical challenges and pave the way for future solutions in IMR integration.

Main Methods:

• A HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community workgroup convened to discuss and define IMR.
• A consensus definition of IMR was adopted.
• The white paper outlines the current state and desired future state of IMR.

Main Results:

• Interactive Multimedia Reporting (IMR) is defined as interactive medical documentation combining multimedia, metadata, annotations, text, and educational resources.
• IMR aims to optimize communication among medical professionals and between professionals and patients.
• Technical challenges impede the routine creation and EHR ingestion of IMR.

Conclusions:

• IMR represents a significant advancement in clinical documentation and communication.
• Overcoming technical barriers is crucial for the widespread adoption of IMR.
• Future efforts will focus on solving technical issues for seamless IMR integration into electronic health records.