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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Q&A: SIIM Chair Paul G. Nagy on image exchange, enterprise imaging and deep learning

The Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) wrapped up a successful SIIM 2017 in Pittsburgh earlier this summer, and now its members are preparing for the second annual Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (C-MIMI) in September.

Agfa Healthcare to provide enterprise imaging platform to Australia’s ACT Health

Agfa Healthcare announced it has signed a three-plus-four-year contract to provide its enterprise imaging platform to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health, which covers patients throughout Australia. Several solutions are involved in the contract, including Enterprise Imaging for Radiology, the XERO universal image viewer, Enterprise Imaging Business Intelligence and more.

Mach7 Technologies hires new CEO

Mach7 Technologies, a Burlington, Vermont-based healthcare company focused on enterprise imaging, has hired Michael Jackman to be its new CEO. Jackman is a veteran of the healthcare IT industry with almost three decades of hands-on experience.

Cleaning up: 3 tips for reducing and reorganizing imaging codes at your institution

A team at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston recently reduced its imaging (IMG) codes—which are used internally to define and keep track of procedures as they pass through various information systems—from more than 1,300 to fewer than 850. How'd they do it? 

Carestream Enables Reading of MR Perfusion, MR Diffusion Studies Directly From Vue PACS Diagnostic Viewer

ROCHESTER, N.Y., , Aug. 8 — Carestream Health introduced new MR Brain Perfusion and MR Brain Diffusion modules that enable radiologists to read these imaging studies from a CARESTREAM Vue PACS diagnostic viewer (see video link). The company has received FDA 510(k) Clearance for use in the United States, and these new tools also have been approved for use in Europe and other countries across the globe.

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Q&A: Jahni Tapley on Saving Lives and Bucking Trends in Rural Oklahoma

Sponsored by vRad

For small rural hospitals such as McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., an on-staff radiologist is a luxury. After losing its single in-house radiologist, the facility floated between several different teleradiology providers before finally landing on vRad—largely due to vRad’s strong breast health portfolio.

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Now Hiring? Don’t Let Today’s Market Challenges Hold You Back

Sponsored by vRad

The radiology job market has had its fair share of ups and downs, as one can see by simply scanning the last 15 years of data from Merritt Hawkins, a popular physician search firm. In 2003, radiology was the No. 1 most requested search assignment at Merritt Hawkins. 

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Embracing value-based care: Radiologists are more than read, rinse, repeat

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

The shift to value-based care is looking like less of a transition and more of a reality for imaging departments.

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