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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How Harvard radiologists rapidly adopted a new reporting structure for possible COVID-19 patients

Others have previously designed such reporting and data systems, but those do not specifically address radiology department workflows, Brigham and Women's experts wrote in JACR

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More than 20% of patients have caught errors in their radiology report or other doc notes

That’s according to a new survey of almost 30,000 consumers, led by Harvard Medical School and published in JAMA Network Open

Nanox

Radiology disrupter Nanox collects $20M from South Korean telecom giant, eyeing 5G imaging

This is in addition to SK’s previous contribution of $5 million and balloons the Israeli system-maker’s fundraising total to $80 million from the likes of Fujifilm and Foxconn

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San Francisco startup dealing in cloud-based AI imaging technology raises $28M

Arterys announced the capital infusion on May 29, with the lion’s share of funding coming from Benslie Investment Group and Temasek Holdings. 

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Lessons learned after radiology department systematically reschedules 30,000 imaging studies

Clear communication has proven crucial and that will only continue as UC Health looks to recover, experts wrote in JACR

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Radiology interest groups urge Congress to delay implementation of imaging appropriate-use criteria

Several imaging industry lobbying groups are continuing to press national lawmakers to provide relief for radiology practices hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Radiology vendor Change Healthcare sells analytics business line for $55M

In the nine months ending Dec. 31, Connected Analytics generated about $48.6 million for the Tennessee-based tech company, or about 2.5% of its earnings. 

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Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

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.