Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Nina Kottler, MD, Radiology Partners, offers overview of the U.S. AI regulatory landscape as government and radiologists work on ways to ensure artificial intelligence is not bias and works properly.

Overview of the regulatory landscape of AI in radiology

Nina Kottler, MD, associate chief medical officer for clinical AI at Radiology Partners, explains the movement toward greater regulation of artificial intelligence and the need for radiology practices and hospitals to learn how to perform quality assurance testing for bias.

Medical imaging trends to watch in 2025

The healthcare market analysis firm Signify Research released a list of predictions in radiology its analysts expect to see in 2025. 

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Automated tracking helps leave no incidental finding behind

Radiology researchers have developed and validated an automated program for tracking incidental imaging findings. The system facilitates communications between radiologists, patients and primary care providers whenever such findings turn up.  

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How a health system automatically integrates AI results into radiology reports

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has aimed to tackle this conundrum, developing a deep learning-based image analysis tool and AI “orchestrator.” 

Radiology "maestro" addresses department workflow hiccups.

'Ad hoc' shifts and radiology 'maestros': How one department addressed its workflow hiccups

The radiologist maestro assesses colleagues' needs in real-time and makes decisions accordingly at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Video of Steve Rankin, chief strategy officer for Enlitic, explaining how AI can help standardize labeling of medical images.

AI can help radiology standardize image exam data labeling

To fully leverage today's radiology IT systems, standardization is a necessity. Steve Rankin, chief strategy officer for Enlitic, explains how artificial intelligence can help.

PSG growth equity redo

Private equity firm PSG invests $80M in radiology vendor Core Sound Imaging

Its flagship product is the Studycast imaging workflow platform, which CSI billed as “more than a picture archiving and communication system." 

Video Christoph Wald explains how the Health AI Challenge help understand how foundational AI models work

ACR partners to create AI foundational model assessment website

Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors, explains the partnerships with academic institutions to create the Health AI Challenge will help provide a better understanding of how foundational AI models work.

 

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.