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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Lung-RADS provides radiologists performing LDCT with consistency, fewer false positives

To ensure structured reporting for the clinical reporting of lung cancer screening with low-dose CT (LDCT), the American College of Radiology (ACR) introduced the Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS).

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Do interventional radiologists prefer structured or free-text reports?

Using structured reports in interventional radiology (IR) is preferred by radiologists and referring physicians, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Carestream’s Successful R&D Efforts Earn 36 US Patents In 2017; 43 Additional Patents in Other Countries

Company Developing Innovative New Technologies for Medical and Healthcare IT Systems

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When providers in the same system share radiology reports with EHRs, patients benefit

Healthcare providers are being asked more and more to share diagnostic data through electronic health records (EHRs), but what kind of impact can that have on patient outcomes?

Radiologist allegedly threatens patients to cough up cash for rad reports

Tennessee-based radiologist Mark Winters closed the doors to his imaging facility, Digital Diagnostics, and allegedly threatened patients to pay extra money to “maintain” their imaging reports.

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Radiology-pathology report pairing system works wonders for radiologists

Radiology-pathology report pairing can provide potential opportunities for learning and improved accuracy when matched by organ systems, according to a new article published in Academic Radiology.

Computer glitch causes radiology department nightmare

Thousands of ultrasound reports have been affected by a glitch in an automatic computer system feed meant to send the reports to physicians at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

Change Healthcare acquires National Decision Support Company

Change Healthcare announced today that it has acquired National Decision Support Company (NDSC), a Madison, Wisconsin-based company known for delivering appropriate use criteria (AUC) for imaging, blood management and other specialties through its CareSelect platform.

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