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 systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Lessons learned after radiology department systematically reschedules 30,000 imaging studies

Clear communication has proven crucial and that will only continue as UC Health looks to recover, experts wrote in JACR. 

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Radiology interest groups urge Congress to delay implementation of imaging appropriate-use criteria

Several imaging industry lobbying groups are continuing to press national lawmakers to provide relief for radiology practices hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Radiology vendor Change Healthcare sells analytics business line for $55M

In the nine months ending Dec. 31, Connected Analytics generated about $48.6 million for the Tennessee-based tech company, or about 2.5% of its earnings. 

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Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

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Experts introduce CO-RADS as standardized way to assess CT imaging of COVID-19 patients

The COVID-19 Reporting and Data System is based on previous efforts at standardization and has logged solid results thus far, experts from the Dutch Radiological Society reported. 

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Feds delay enforcement of new interoperability rules to ease burden on providers

“In a pandemic of this magnitude, flexibility is paramount for a healthcare system under siege by COVID-19,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said. 

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Supporting Rural Health In Alaska, an Admin Grows into Her New PACS

Sponsored by Sectra

The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is a 173-bed hospital located in Anchorage, Ala., working in close partnership with Alaska’s rural health facilities to support a broad range of healthcare and related services.

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RSNA launching COVID-19 image-sharing initiative following ‘wave of requests’

The Radiological Society of North America said it’s creating a coronavirus imaging data repository in a bid to boost research on the novel disease. 

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