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.

Intelerad Announces Record Year for FY2017

Banner year includes company records for revenues and new customer signings, an expanded product and partners portfolio and investment in client services

Intelerad unveils imaging Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform

Interlad's latest cloud offering provides fully-hosted infrastructure and managed services.   

Sectra signs agreement with teleradiology provider to improve post-operative follow-up for orthopaedic customers

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra signs agreement with the global teleradiology provider Telemedicine Clinic (TMC). Through this agreement, Sectra can now offer its orthopaedic customers access to the service Sectra Implant Movement Analysis.

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Can electronic triggers help prevent delays in patient care?

Developing electronic triggers to detect delays in follow-up of abnormal mammographic results offers healthcare providers with an “unprecedented opportunity to improve care,” according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. But are the triggers successful enough for clinical use?

SIR 2018 online registration is now open

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has announced that online registration is now open for the SIR 2018 annual scientific meeting held from March 17-22 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif.        

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7 reasons why radiation exposure, patient dose are decreasing in cardiology

In the last decade, radiation exposure and patient dose has decreased in cardiology, according to trends analyzed and evaluated in a recent article published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.  

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Cloud-based image sharing improves efficiency, reporting times

Radiologists may want to invest in cloud-based image sharing software for departmental workflow purposes. New research in the American College of Radiology showed high efficacy of cloud-based image sharing in a mammography department.

End-of-life imaging spending key to evaluating participation in advanced payment models

A recent study in the American College of Radiology aimed to assess spending patterns on high-cost imaging during the final three months of life.

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.