RADIOLOGY AS AN ENTERPRISE MODEL FOR COLLABORATION :
DEVELOPING AN EHR-DRIVEN RADIOLOGY WORKFLOW
In the United States , Meaningful Use has been a major incentive to make patient information including labs and imaging universally available to clinicians through the EHR . But too often the major collaborative benefits of the EHR fail to become available to the “ ologies .” At UVA , the EHR-driven radiology workflow not only provides full clinical information to radiologists , but the collaborative workflow adopted by UVA has also helped the UVA Physicians ’ Group attest to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and receive nearly $ 1.5 million ( of which $ 981,594 came to the radiology department ).
AT UVA THE EHR NOT ONLY ACCESSES RADIOLOGY IMAGES AND REPORTS , IT ALSO DRIVES RADIOLOGY WORKFLOW .