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.

University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio

Major academic medical system advances image management with Sectra Enterprise Imaging

Sponsored by Sectra

University Hospitals in Cleveland is half of the way through implementing a true enterprise image-management solution—a.k.a. VNA (vendor neutral archive)—and one key insider sees the advance as “a huge goldmine for patient care.”

February 24, 2016

Fujifilm Continues to Advance VNA Technology and Interoperability at HIMSS 2016

Healthcare providers realize efficiencies and reduce costs with Synapse VNA

February 22, 2016

Before, During and After: Building Physician Relationships

McKesson

Relationship building is one of the most time consuming aspects of running a business.

February 11, 2016
Marty Khatib, JD, RT

Confronting complexity in imaging

McKesson

Things are a bit complicated in healthcare, to say the least. Whether it's additional regulations, a competitive market or changing patient demographics, care delivery is becoming more complex every year.

February 11, 2016

Nine years into specialized IT program, a cardiovascular department grows in the L.A. basin

McKesson

A full year has gone by since 425-bed Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles went live with a new enterprise-wide EMR solution from Cerner.

February 11, 2016

Vital Images announces new data migration service

Minneapolis-based Vital Images, a Toshiba Group company, announced this week it is launching a “zero-cost” data migration service. 

February 10, 2016

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.

January 27, 2016

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.

January 27, 2016

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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