DAVID VEENEMAN TITLE : VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS COMPANY : ONTARIO CLINICAL IMAGING NETWORK ( OCINET )
Veeneman works in partnership with healthcare providers in Ontario in the delivery of Diagnostic Imaging Repository services , shared Picture Archive and Communication Systems ( PACS ), and the Provincial Emergency Neuro Image Transfer System ( ENITS ).
With 28 years of healthcare experience both locally and abroad , Veeneman brings direct clinical experience from a wide array of healthcare environments ranging from large multi-facility academic / research centres to rural medical aid stations .
Throughout his career , Veeneman has been at the forefront of transformational change through enabling technology and has successfully transitioned several large-scale multi-facility initiatives from the project phase to sustainable operational models .
As Shamji describes , one of the recommendations for imaging from that blueprint was to centralise images and make them available regionally . “ The Ontario government took that to heart , and in 2010 started the four imaging repositories in Ontario .”
The main objective was to increase speed in the imaging process , ultimately providing a better experience for patients .
“ When you go to the hospital and you get an image taken , if there is something detected you have to go see a specialist who often works at a different hospital . If there ’ s a suspicion of cancer , you go to the cancer centre for example .
“ If they have your images available to them , you get treatment much faster ,” adds Shamji . “ In the old days , they would have to repeat that image . You would have to wait for availability for that image to be taken and then wait for the reading .