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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Google's machine learning to study radiotherapy for oral cancers

Google’s machine-learning division, DeepMind, is partnering with the U.K.’s National Health Service through the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in an effort to treat oral cancers more efficiently, according to Fortune.   

Imaging technology comes to Canadian medical classroom

Computed tomography images will be making a bigger-than-normal impact on some medical students at the University of British Columbia, according to Phys.org. 

vRad expands national imaging database

Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a Mednax company that specializes in teleradiology services and telemedicine, has enhanced and updated its Radiology Patient Care Indices, a national radiology database.

Thyroid cancer possibly over-diagnosed

Methods to diagnose thyroid cancer may be almost too good, according to the authors of a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Brain atrophy related to treatment time, but not recovery likelihood, in SRSE patients

Patients with super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) could end up with brain atrophy after a prolonged seizure and treatment, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology. 

Portable PET scanner allows for views of brains in motion

Researchers will now be able to find out what’s going on in study subjects’ brains as they move around, perform tasks or speak. That’s because a project from doctors at the University of Virginia Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging have invented the first wearable PET scanner, called the AM-PET Helmet. 

Healthier lifestyle associated with fewer dementia-related brain proteins in PET scans

Having a lower BMI, eating healthier foods and getting more physicial activity could be associated with fewer PET scan-detectable amyloid and tau proteins in the brain in adults with subjective memory impairment and mild cognitive impairment, according to a new study. 

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PACS Roundtable, Part 2: The Ideal PACS-EMR Relationship

An expert panel weighs in on what makes the PACS-EMR integration click.

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