Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

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Sectra, INFINITT PACS among Best in KLAS winners

The People’s Choice Awards, Grammys and Oscars aren’t the only prestigious awards that get handed out at this time of year. Research firm KLAS announced the winners of its annual Best in KLAS: Software & Services  awards today, celebrating top-ranking companies based on the feedback of their own customers. 

lifeIMAGE acquires women’s imaging network Mammosphere

lifeIMAGE, a medical image exchange platform based in Waltham, Mass., has acquired women’s imaging network Mammosphere, according to a company press release.

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Distinguished Diagnostic Imaging banks on Exa Platform to extend reach in NYC

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

It was a gutsy move even by the standards of the borough that is home to the New York Yankees, the birthplace of hip-hop, and the largest zoo in the East: At just 23 years old, with no direct experience in healthcare, Joel Reisman decided to dive into the deep end of the outpatient medical imaging business in the Bronx.

Piecing together patient data: Integrated EHR a high priority for radiologists

According to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, an integrated EHR is a bigger priority to radiologists than having access to the most advanced clinical features.

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The ICD-10 rollercoaster rolls along

What an up-and-down, fast-and-slow, twisting, turning run ICD-10 has been on over the last four seasons. 

Mach7 Technologies awarded key patent

Mach7 Technologies, an enterprise image management company based out of Burlington, Vt., announced this week it now has a patent in the U.S. for handheld medical imaging. 

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HIMSS: Cloud-based image storage up in 2015

Despite some general concerns about keeping data safe and secure, cloud-based image storage was up in 2015, according to a recent report published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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Big Brother? Satirical article ponders putting rads under 24/7 surveillance

Call it a "modest proposal" for radiology. For a recent satirical article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Richard B. Gunderman, MD, and Benjamin R. Gray, MD, Indiana University department of radiology, had a little fun at the expense of the imaging industry. 

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The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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