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.

RSNA 2016: How to apply business analytics to radiology

There’s a wealth of usable data in every imaging practice, including performance benchmarks, scanner data and EHR records. Building a business analytics framework to extract and visualize data can be challenging, but the use cases demonstrate impressive gains in productivity and value.

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RSNA 2016: Radiologists must become as centaurs joined at the midsection to AI

RSNA, Chicago—No two words struck more fear into the hearts of radiologists in 2016 than “artificial” and “intelligence.” The cascading virality of the hashtag #AI only intensified the sense that, slowly but surely, something doomful this way comes.

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From Volume to Value: Radiology’s New IT Value Platform

When it comes to demonstrating radiology’s value, IT will be indispensable, and yes, decision support is part of the platform

Charter Radiology Network formed to focus on ACA

Charter Radiology Network has been formed by two Connecticut radiology companies that will work together on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "triple aim" of improved patient health and satisfaction for a lower cost. 

Zebra Medical introduces new way to analyze medical scans

Zebra Medical Vision announced the launch of Profound, a service with the potential to help people receive fast, accurate medical image analysis over the internet.

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UMass Memorial Health Care Deploys Conserus Workflow Intelligence to Drive Efficiency and Quality Processes

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Case Study: UMass Memorial Health Care wanted to drive quality improvements within radiology services for its system of hospitals and clinics.

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Konica Minolta to debut IT advances at RSNA 2016

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

In the ongoing effort to improve its solutions with customer input, Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas will be showcasing new features in the Exa™ Platform that enhance patient engagement, referring provider satisfaction and imaging workflow productivity.

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Live Video Diagnostics Brings Breast Imaging Specialists Face-to-Face with Patients and Technologists, Regardless of Geographic Location

Sponsored by vRad

Breast-imaging patients and the radiologic technologists who serve them have long wished for a breast radiologist to be there for them—on call or already present—whenever questions or concerns arise in the exam room.

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.