Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

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Ahead in the Cloud: Imaging Cloud Applications and Ideas

The data-intensive nature of radiology has long kept the specialty on the cutting edge of IT. That’s why cloud computing is a relatively old concept among imaging-informatics veterans.

Idea in Search of a Business Model: Solving the Image-sharing Dilemma

The deftness of data movement between sites creates a deception that it’s easy; it’s not. Leaving aside technical problems with integration, servers, and storage, the more central problem might be this: Who pays the bill to set image exchange in motion?

Children’s Hospital Colorado Reaps the Benefits of an Image-enabled EHR

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Since opening on February 17, 1910, the 375-bed Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC), in Aurora has tried to be a leader in providing the best health-care outcomes for children.

The VNA Revealed: Understanding Its Role in a Health-delivery System

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Many radiology administrators remember purchasing their first or second PACS: It was probably no small financial commitment, and justifying the expense might have been a painful process.

Duke University Health System Selects Epic-friendly VNA

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

When Duke University Health System (DUHS) in Durham, North Carolina, goes live with its full-blown Epic electronic health record (EHR) implementation in June 2013

ImagingBiz: Influence and Leadership

American College of Radiology (ACR)

I am pleased to announce a new addition to our comprehensive news and information portal in the form of a series of video commentaries. Within these occasional commentaries, I will take the opportunity to discuss the implications for medical imaging leaders of the various trends and issues facing our profession. This first video is a brief

Health IT for Patient–Provider Connection

Digital health care gives patients a new opportunity to engage with their care providers on an unprecedented scale. With the electronic exchange of health information, consumers can access their medical records electronically, share them with providers, and make informed decisions. These advances in health IT make possible better consumer engagement, as well as more efficient and effective care.

Boston Children's Hospital: Notes From an AV Superuser

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Advanced visualization technology in imaging continues to garner acceptance within the radiology arena, yielding improvements in practice patterns and opportunities for enhanced cooperation with clinicians. Sanjay Prabhu, MBBS, FRCR, is a staff radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and director of Boston Children’s Advanced

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