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.

vRad white paper: how radiology can use imaging analytics to become an indispensable partner

Radiology provides critical value in the diagnostic process. However, significant changes in healthcare now require the specialty to think creatively about how to provide additional value beyond interpretation, including transparency into quality and economic performance. 

Digisonics showcases enterprise PACS and structured reporting solutions at SIIM 2015

HOUSTON (May 7, 2015) – Digisonics (Booth #523), a leading integrator/provider of Enterprise PACS and Structured Reporting Systems, will showcase its latest offerings to improve workflow efficiency at this year’s Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Viztek to showcase advancements in breast imaging at SIIM 2015

RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwired - May 12, 2015) - (SIIM Booth #525) -- Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, will debut its new Exa Mammo Viewer to attendees during the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 28-30 in Washington, DC. An extension of the Viztek Exa platform which debuted at SIIM in 2014, the Exa Mammo Viewer leverages advanced technologies to bring the benefits of single workstation viewing and remote access for any 2D or 3D mammography study to the specialty of breast imaging.

FUJIFILM expands healthcare IT portfolio at SIIM 2015

Stamford, C.T., May 28, 2015 (Booth#237) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with its latest acquisition of TeraMedica, Inc., by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) on May 28 – May 30 in Washington, D.C.

Agfa HealthCare debuts enterprise imaging exchange program at SIIM 2015

Agfa HealthCare announced today the launch of its Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program which establishes a secure health information exchange network between multispecialty collaborating health providers to exchange and share medical imaging data. The solution will be on display at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 26-31, 2015, in Washington, DC.

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SIIM15: Pictures at an exhibition

Chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee Richard H. Wiggins III, MD, FSIIM, CIIP, opened the meeting with an overview of the learning domains that rounded out this year’s theme, “Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise,” May 28–30, 2015, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.

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Governance: The devil in enterprise imaging details

An issue that surfaced repeatedly during the recent annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine had very little to do with imaging informatics technology and everything to do with how that technology is implemented: governance.

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10 tips for creating an enterprise image strategy

“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

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