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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Pokémon, phone home for healthcare

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with drivers distracted by texting—other drivers, of course, never ever you or me—now comes Pokémon Go to engross both drivers and walkers, including millions of children. 

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New brain map more than doubles its defined areas

Imaging technology can be important for more than diagnosing or treating individuals—a new study published in the journal Nature shows the abilities of MRIs to facilitate new discoveries about the human body. 

Interpretations of dense breasts can vary among rads, study says

A woman who has a mammogram that shows she has dense breasts—more tissue than normal—is usually considered to be at a higher risk of breast cancer than other women. The denser tissue makes it harder for radiologists to detect breast cancer in mammograms. The extra tissue itself is another risk factor. 

Using radioguided sentinel lymph node biopsies could improve estimation of disease severity in papillary thyroid carcinoma

A new imaging method could help physicians detect serious types of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) more accurately, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery. 

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Adding PET scans to guided biopsies can improve prostate cancer detection

A new study published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine asserts that a new method of prostate cancer imaging can make guided biopsies more precise and general understanding of the cancer clearer.

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PACS Facts: Constructed vs. Deconstructed

Sponsored by Sectra

It can be safely said that the healthcare services industry is in a state of flux like never before. Reform initiatives driving the mandate to create interoperability are not in any way exempting medical imaging.

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California hospital expands imaging fleet

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calififornia, expanded its imaging capabilities by 11 portable machines, the hospital announced July 13. 

Medical imaging and construction make unlikely friends

Medical devices can be useful construction devices too, apparently. 

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.