Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Grow Your Multisite Business With a Single Sign-on Solution

Six months ago, Jesse Salen, vice president of sales and technology for Online Radiology Medical Group (ORMG), Riverside, Calif, found himself in a situation familiar to many radiology practices: upgrade ORMG’s RIS/PACS platform or face dissolution. ORMG had been in operation for nearly a decade, but the practice’s single-database PACS wasn’t

Intersociety Conference Urges Adoption of Structured Reports

Aside from referrers’ clear-cut preference for structured reports, radiologists have added cause to adopt the use of structured reporting. At its annual meeting last summer, the 2007 Intersociety Conference urged the adoption of structured reports, according to an article by N. Reed Dunnick, MD, and Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, in the May 2008 issue of

Solved: A Consistent and Simple DR/CR Interface

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Hospitals trying to send both CR and DR images to PACS, especially for the same patient, have encountered multiple problems in the past. CR and DR images acquired for the same diagnostic study, but through differing devices, might have been presented with a different look and feel because of the technologies with which they were acquired, delaying

A CIO at the Table

Most radiology practices have not invited their CIOs onto the executive committee, but a recent surve1 from the Center for CIO Leadership suggests that it may be time to set another place at the table. A practice benefits not only from hiring a well-qualified CIO, but also from empowering that person to be a member of the core executive committee

Enterprise PACS: A Good Thing for Radiology?

Considerable benefits accrue to the institution when approaching PACS outside the radiology box.

Bookmark This: Yottalook

Tired of sorting through attorney advertisements when you Google mesothelioma? Bookmark Yottalook, the search engine created by Khan Siddiqui, MD; Woojin Kim, MD; William Boonn, MD; and Nablie Safdar, MD. The creators used search algorithms to isolate and display only radiological content found in a Google search, but the tool is much more than a

Ron Hosenfeld and RivRad: Building an Effective Distributed Reading Solution

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

The road to a distributed reading model is paved with WAN accelerators, DICOM gateways, and sleepless nights, to hear one practice CIO describe it. Nonetheless, three and a half years after he began building a distributed reading solution to support the subspecialty reading model of Columbus, Ohio-based Riverside Radiology, CIO Ron Hosenfeld sleeps

Better Than Aspirin: Modality Testing and Troubleshooting

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Why does it typically take several days to get a new modality up and running, from a connectivity perspective?

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.

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