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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Consolidated rad-path reports are coming soon to a practice near you

Sponsored by vRad

Earlier this year vRad and San Diego-based XIFIN (pronounced zy-fin) began closely collaborating on an online workflow that will offer referring physicians a one-stop fusion of all diagnostic reports—from radiology, pathology and clinical labs.

Agfa HealthCare receives FDA 510(k) clearance for XERO® Viewer Full Fidelity mobile diagnostic viewing

Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for diagnostic viewing with the XERO Viewer.

vRad white paper: how radiology can use imaging analytics to become an indispensable partner

Radiology provides critical value in the diagnostic process. However, significant changes in healthcare now require the specialty to think creatively about how to provide additional value beyond interpretation, including transparency into quality and economic performance. 

Viztek to showcase advancements in breast imaging at SIIM 2015

RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwired - May 12, 2015) - (SIIM Booth #525) -- Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, will debut its new Exa Mammo Viewer to attendees during the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 28-30 in Washington, DC. An extension of the Viztek Exa platform which debuted at SIIM in 2014, the Exa Mammo Viewer leverages advanced technologies to bring the benefits of single workstation viewing and remote access for any 2D or 3D mammography study to the specialty of breast imaging.

FUJIFILM expands healthcare IT portfolio at SIIM 2015

Stamford, C.T., May 28, 2015 (Booth#237) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with its latest acquisition of TeraMedica, Inc., by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) on May 28 – May 30 in Washington, D.C.

Agfa HealthCare debuts enterprise imaging exchange program at SIIM 2015

Agfa HealthCare announced today the launch of its Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program which establishes a secure health information exchange network between multispecialty collaborating health providers to exchange and share medical imaging data. The solution will be on display at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 26-31, 2015, in Washington, DC.

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SIIM15: Pictures at an exhibition

Chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee Richard H. Wiggins III, MD, FSIIM, CIIP, opened the meeting with an overview of the learning domains that rounded out this year’s theme, “Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise,” May 28–30, 2015, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.

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Governance: The devil in enterprise imaging details

An issue that surfaced repeatedly during the recent annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine had very little to do with imaging informatics technology and everything to do with how that technology is implemented: governance.

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