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  • Muzammil A. Shafi, MD

    How Konica Minolta’s next generation, cloud-based enterprise imaging is powering one practice’s growth

    Finding the right enterprise imaging system is critical for radiology practices and hospitals that need to expand and scale their image management and reading capacity. For Houston Northwest Radiology Association, a large increase in the volume of images they manage for clients means it’s time to commit to a next-gen EI system.

  • Fresenius Kabi Image

    Generic Contrast Agents – Now You Have a Choice

    Visit Fresenius Kabi to learn more. Booth #3235. Fresenius Kabi has expanded their radiology portfolio to include additional cost-effective products, including the CT and MRI contrast agents featured in their booth this year at RSNA 2024.

  • Seno Scan

    A Physician, a Patient and a Technology Whose Time Is Now

    If certainty is the holy grail of diagnostic breast imaging, then opto-acoustic ultrasound is the treasure map showing exactly where to find it. While other imaging modalities can help distinguish a benign lesion from a malignant mass, only OA/US provides the radiologist with a more definitive diagnosis without invasive medicine, ionizing radiation or claustrophobic dread.

  • Enlitic Radiologist

    Konica Minolta Healthcare moves into enterprise imaging powered by AWS

    Konica Minolta Healthcare is introducing Exa Enterprise, a new enterprise imaging solution that encompasses the Exa PACS-RIS core powered by AWS’s proven cloud solution and its data. This new enterprise cloud solution will deliver exceptionally fast access to data and boost efficiency across imaging specialties.

  • Imaging scan

    Breast specialists have seen the future. It’s opto-acoustic imaging.

    Few radiology subspecialties can match breast imaging at adopting new imaging modalities to improve patient care. Consider: The past 10 to 15 years have seen the rise of digital breast tomosynthesis, automated breast ultrasound, breast MRI (with and without diffusion weighting), low-dose positron emission mammography and contrast-enhanced dual-energy digital mammography. That’s just to name a few.  

Enterprise Imaging and the Radiology Practice: Mecklenburg Radiology Associates

McKesson

Mecklenburg Radiology Associates (MRA), Charlotte, North Carolina, is the oldest continually operating radiology group in the state; its 40 radiologists and 10 physician assistants serve Novant Health’s four hospitals and nine imaging centers in the Southern Piedmont region of the state, as well as a number of other imaging centers, physician

VNA or ANV? Lessons From the Health System-Vendor Transition

McKesson

Following years of experience working on the enterprise IT team at Iowa Health System as an infrastructure architect, Tom Coppa takes a strong stance on the terminology used to refer to enterprise-wide image repositories—what some have taken to calling vendor-neutral archives (VNAs). “The idea of a VNA makes a lot of sense—it remains a very solid

Setting Expectations for Enterprise Image Management

McKesson

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was an early pioneer in establishing an enterprise image repository; its enterprise medical storage platform went live in 2005, and its vendor-neutral archive (VNA) went live in 2009, followed by an enterprise viewer in 2010. Chris Tomlinson, MBA, has helped to lead the charge in his role as

Digital Data and the Spoken Word: Bridging the Communication Gap

M*Modal

As radiology equipment becomes ever more advanced, so-called “structured data” only increases. Advanced 3D and reconstruction visualization generates measurements from multiple angles, and the digital information builds and builds.

Patient Satisfaction With Imaging Is Increasingly Critical to Referrers

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

As health care becomes increasingly consumer driven, patients are expecting higher levels of service and satisfaction from their providers, including providers of medical imaging. Elliot Silverman, director of imaging services at Palmetto General Hospital (Hialeah, Florida), notes that many patients have only a vague notion of what’s in store when

Radiology and Social Media: A Tale of Two Practices

iCRco

This article is third in a three-part series. To read the first article in the series, click here; to read the second, click here.

Patient Portals Unlock New Service Levels for Radiology

MMP

This article is the third in a four-part series. To read part one, click here; to read part two, click here.

Patient-centered Care, Technology, and the Imaging Center: ProScan Imaging

Proscan

In September, ProScan Imaging, which owns a network of 25 imaging centers in seven states, became the first organization in the world to install the high-field Echelon Oval 1.5T MRI system from Hitachi Medical Systems. Featuring an oval-shaped bore that measures 74 cm, the Echelon Oval reflects the growing trend toward patient centricity in imaging

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