Models of Information Systems devoted to Medical Imaging Labs: an experience in the CNR Clinical Physiology Institute

At the end of the 1990's, the SPERIGEST project, supported by the Italian Health Ministry, and fully developed at the Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, established an operative integrated clinical and healthcare information system. From that first implementation, a continuous evolution aims to realize and optimize procedures and protocols, by solving problems of: harmonization of instrumentation of different brands; management of multimedial data provided by different medical imaging labs; satisfaction of both clinical and research needs as well as legal and economical requirements; user-friendship of the provided tools. A ten years experience shows that the positive approach by medical and healthcare operators guarantees coordinated activity, higher efficiency, simplified procedures which imply a major concentration onto the medical decision-making issues.