Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics (also known as radiology informatics, a component of wider medical or healthcare informatics) includes systems to transfer images and radiology data between radiologists, referring physicians, patients and the entire enterprise. This includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), wider enterprise image systems, radiology information. systems (RIS), connections to share data with the electronic medical record (EMR), and software to enable advanced visualization, reporting, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, exam ordering, clinical decision support, dictation, and remote image sharing and viewing systems.

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Artificial intelligence prioritizes radiologists’ CT work list, reducing turnaround and wait times

The machine learning algorithm works by flagging abnormal, noncontrast exams for intracranial hemorrhage, experts wrote in Radiology: AI. 

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Standardizing chest CT reporting ups odds of early lung cancer diagnosis by nearly 25%

Kaiser Permanente’s system works by dividing patients with suspicious nodules into eight separate categories, similar to screening mammography. 

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Shifting to subspecialty-based radiology reporting significantly improves turnaround time

The gains were particularly notable in MRI and conventional radiography and at smaller hospitals, experts reported in Insights into Imaging. 

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Hospital promises change after physician reads wrong CT scans, leading to 28-year-old patient’s death

Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now in the process of purchasing a new PACS system to reduce some unnecessary manual steps. 

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3 steps for succeeding at imaging innovation in your radiology practice

Innovation is crucial to the evolution of radiology, but trailblazers who take shortcuts will be left disappointed, experts advised. 

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Structured oncology reporting for follow-up imaging of metastatic cancer patients scores high marks

This more uniform method of reporting has now become the "backbone of oncological imaging" at one high-volume cancer center. 

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Providing plain language and context in spine imaging reports helps drop opioid prescriptions

The intervention is inexpensive and simple to replicate, UW Medicine experts explained in JAMA Network Open. 

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RSNA offering cash, massive dataset for AI solutions to tackle pulmonary embolism

The Radiological Society of North America launched its fourth annual artificial intelligence challenge, hoping to help docs detect and characterize the condition. 

Around the web

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.

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

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