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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Distinguished Diagnostic Imaging banks on Exa Platform to extend reach in NYC

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

It was a gutsy move even by the standards of the borough that is home to the New York Yankees, the birthplace of hip-hop, and the largest zoo in the East: At just 23 years old, with no direct experience in healthcare, Joel Reisman decided to dive into the deep end of the outpatient medical imaging business in the Bronx.

Piecing together patient data: Integrated EHR a high priority for radiologists

According to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, an integrated EHR is a bigger priority to radiologists than having access to the most advanced clinical features.

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The ICD-10 rollercoaster rolls along

What an up-and-down, fast-and-slow, twisting, turning run ICD-10 has been on over the last four seasons. 

Mach7 Technologies awarded key patent

Mach7 Technologies, an enterprise image management company based out of Burlington, Vt., announced this week it now has a patent in the U.S. for handheld medical imaging. 

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HIMSS: Cloud-based image storage up in 2015

Despite some general concerns about keeping data safe and secure, cloud-based image storage was up in 2015, according to a recent report published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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Big Brother? Satirical article ponders putting rads under 24/7 surveillance

Call it a "modest proposal" for radiology. For a recent satirical article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Richard B. Gunderman, MD, and Benjamin R. Gray, MD, Indiana University department of radiology, had a little fun at the expense of the imaging industry. 

Merge Healthcare, MedAllies announce agreement

Merge Healthcare and MedAllies are collaborating to improve interoperability for almost 300,000 physicians, the companies announced this week.

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Merge and University of Miami Health System Working Together to Gain Control of Imaging Across the Enterprise

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

Radiology and cardiology departments have long produced significant imaging volumes, but the volumes of imaging exams performed in other specialties are now easily surpassing that amount.

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.