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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Real-time Video: Imaging 3.0 Toolkit?

Using real-time video to enhance radiology interpretations is not new. But the convergence of teleradiology and traditional telemedicine, which have followed different paths over the past 15 years, sure is.

July 2, 2014

FDA issues new medical and mobile device draft guidance

The FDA hopes to encourage innovation and interoperability by lowering the regulatory burden on medical device data systems in a new draft guidance published June 20.The document also proposes edits to the mobile medical applications guidance.

June 23, 2014

Making the transition from imaging IT to IS

Imaging IT personnel have unprecedented opportunities to make the transition from the radiology department to enterprise IT, says Louis Lannum, who recently did the same at the Cleveland Clinic.

June 23, 2014

RamSoft Launches Blog to Share Expertise in Radiology

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) May 29, 2014—RamSoft, a leading developer of RIS, PACS, and Teleradiology software solutions, announces the launch of the RamSoft Blog which will feature a wide variety of topics and discussions on workflow improvement strategies and radiology industry trends.

May 30, 2014

CMS Deems NRDR a Qualified Clinical Data Registry

Reston, Va. (May 27, 2014) - The American College of Radiology (ACR) National Radiology Data Registry (NRDR™) has been recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). 

May 27, 2014

All-American Teleradiology Launches Telemammography Services

Bay Village, OH (PRWEB) May 27, 2014—All-American Teleradiology announces a strategic partnership with Women's Imaging Associates of Birmingham, Alabama to provide digital breast imaging reading services including telemammography to complement its expanded 24/7/365 coverage.

May 27, 2014

MITA Announces Publication of New Edition of DICOM Standard

Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced the publication of the new edition of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard, which provides capabilities that allow digital imaging technologies to interact seamlessly. The updated edition of the international standard includes an extensible markup language (XML) representation of the standard.

May 23, 2014
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John Halamka, CIO: The internet increasingly is a swamp

The “internet increasingly is a swamp,” says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka in a recorded interview with Information Security Media Group, prompting the prominent CIO to focus in 2014 on what he calls “increased security maturity” throughout the healthcare enterprise.

May 13, 2014

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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