Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM)
The HIMSS Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM) helps healthcare organizations measure capabilities related to the secure delivery of medical imaging and its associated processes to improve quality of care, patient safety and organizational efficiency in both hospitals and diagnostic centers. The globally applicable DIAM facilitates enterprise imaging covering all areas of the health system, enabling management of digital imaging and multimedia content in a systematic, holistic, efficient and effective manner.
With the DIAM, realize operational and clinical improvements related to healthcare imaging while assessing and advancing IT-supported processes and collaboration across your entire organization. Organizations can leverage the DIAM to improve the person-enabled health and governance and workforce dimensions of digital health.

Engage Patients
Enable patients to access their images, image-related reports and other non-acute digital imaging-related materials to provide a comprehensive understanding that involves the patient in their own care journey.

Drive Clinical and Operational Collaboration
Focus on healthcare imaging technologies across multiple areas of the health system to encourage strong multidisciplinary collaboration and build a culture of stakeholder engagement.

Improve Patient Safety
Improve patient safety by using structured digital imaging reports that are easier for patients to understand because they are less ambiguous and more complete than traditional reports.

Standardize and Secure Healthcare Imaging Technology
Store, display and distribute medical images throughout the enterprise while standardizing and securing workflows to ensure protected health information is captured, exchanged and stored in a secure manner. Ensure medical images are fully traceable and retrievable to provide the best possible care outcomes.
DIAM Stages
*Stages 5–7 are non-hierarchical and can be adopted in any order.
To reach Stage 7, all three of the Stage 5–7 criteria must be met.
To reach Stage 6, two of the Stage 5–7 criteria must be met.
To reach Stage 5, one of the Stage 5–7 criteria must be met.
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The DIAM was developed with the support of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), the European Society of Radiology (ESR), and the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EUSOMII).