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.

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How a health system automatically integrates AI results into radiology reports

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has aimed to tackle this conundrum, developing a deep learning-based image analysis tool and AI “orchestrator.” 

Radiology "maestro" addresses department workflow hiccups.

'Ad hoc' shifts and radiology 'maestros': How one department addressed its workflow hiccups

The radiologist maestro assesses colleagues' needs in real-time and makes decisions accordingly at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Video of Steve Rankin, chief strategy officer for Enlitic, explaining how AI can help standardize labeling of medical images.

AI can help radiology standardize image exam data labeling

To fully leverage today's radiology IT systems, standardization is a necessity. Steve Rankin, chief strategy officer for Enlitic, explains how artificial intelligence can help.

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Private equity firm PSG invests $80M in radiology vendor Core Sound Imaging

Its flagship product is the Studycast imaging workflow platform, which CSI billed as “more than a picture archiving and communication system." 

Video Christoph Wald explains how the Health AI Challenge help understand how foundational AI models work

ACR partners to create AI foundational model assessment website

Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors, explains the partnerships with academic institutions to create the Health AI Challenge will help provide a better understanding of how foundational AI models work.

 

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Radiology vendor Visage Imaging inks $19M deal with 1 of Midwest’s largest multispecialty groups

The seven-year agreement is with Illinois-based Duly Health and Care, which employs 1,000 physicians including 40 radiologists working across 150 locations. 

Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board, explains the new ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical AI algorithms.

ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms

Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, explains how the new Assess-AI National Radiology Data Registry is designed to help monitor accuracy and other metrics for radiology artificial intelligence.

 

Epic

Epic claims interoperability feature averted over 5.8M duplicative imaging exams in 1 year

This would amount to between 400,000 and 500,000 unnecessary scans each month, the Verona, Wisconsin-based vendor said in recently published research.    

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The new F-18 flurpiridaz radiotracer is expected to help drive cardiac PET growth, but it requires waiting between rest and stress scans. Software from MultiFunctional Imaging can help care teams combat that problem.

News of an incident is a stark reminder that healthcare workers and patients aren’t the only ones who need to be aware around MRI suites.

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.