ABSTRACT
Image management systems (IMS) act as an intermediary between the device and the electronic medical records (EMR), and they provide for viewing, accessing and retrieving image data. The reality is that a typical clinical environment will have many different device types of varying vintages, and all of them need to somehow store and access images, as well as being referenced in the EMR. With the IMS acting as the connection between the device and the EMR, it then becomes important to transfer the images into the IMS. It is important to consider infrastructure when setting up an image management system, as this will largely determine the setup. Local area networks, firewalls, connection bandwidths and the physical locations of servers are all factors that will directly influence backup, storage, retrieval and performance. Color management is the practice of managing color consistency and accuracy between devices.
