Enterprise Imaging — Organization-Wide Image Management

What Is Enterprise Imaging?

Enterprise Imaging is the strategy and platform that extends medical image management beyond radiology to ALL departments that generate images: cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, pathology, endoscopy, and more. It represents the natural evolution of the traditional PACS, which historically served only the radiology department.

The premise is simple but transformative: a modern hospital generates images across dozens of departments, not just radiology. Wound photographs in nursing, fundoscopy images in ophthalmology, endoscopy videos in gastroenterology, dermoscopic images — all of these need to be stored, linked to the patient record, and available for clinical review.

Enterprise Imaging uses a VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive) as a unified storage layer, with a web viewer that enables access to any image from any department. Vendors like Philips, Fujifilm, and Agfa actively market Enterprise Imaging solutions. The ultimate goal is a single platform for all "-ologies" in the hospital, eliminating visual information silos.

Why It Matters in Healthcare

• Comprehensive patient view: clinicians access all patient images from a single point, regardless of which department generated them.
• Silo elimination: replaces multiple departmental imaging systems with a consolidated platform.
• Operational efficiency: reduces maintenance, licensing, and support costs by unifying imaging infrastructure.
• Better interdepartmental collaboration: facilitates cross-specialty consultation when correlating images from different sources.
• DICOM and beyond: supports both DICOM images and non-standard formats (photos, videos, scanned documents).

How Davix Relates to Enterprise Imaging

• The integrated architecture of Davix PACS/RIS with the Davix HIS enables image access from any clinical department across the organization.
• Cloud-native storage with a VNA approach, consolidating DICOM and non-DICOM images in a single repository.
• Web-based viewer accessible from any device, allowing clinicians from all specialties to review images without specialized software.
• Native integration between HIS clinical data and images, automatically linking studies to the patient's clinical context.
• Multi-site support enabling an Enterprise Imaging strategy across an entire health network, not just a single hospital.

Evolve your image management beyond radiology. Discover how Davix enables an Enterprise Imaging strategy for your entire organization.