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.

Fujifilm Exhibits Enterprise Imaging Solutions and Artificial Intelligence Initiative at HIMSS 2019

Fujifilm will showcase its enterprise imaging and informatics solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Global Conference.

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AI helps researchers classify unstructured radiology reports

A recurrent neural network (RNN) can be trained to automatically classify important findings in unstructured radiology reports, according to new research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology

INFINITT PACS ranked No. 1 Category Leader by KLAS Research in 2 categories

INFINITT North America announced Friday, Feb. 1, that its INFINITT PACS has been ranked as the No. 1 Category Leader in the PACS Community Hospital and PACS Imaging Centers/Ambulatory categories by KLAS Research.

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Carestream takes home ‘Best in KLAS’ in 2 categories

Carestream Health announced Thursday, Jan. 31, that its solutions have been named ‘Best in KLAS’ in two different categories.

Sectra PACS named ‘Best in KLAS’ in US for 6th straight year

Sectra announced Thursday, Jan. 31, that its PACS was named ‘Best in KLAS’ in the United States for the sixth year in a row.

CDS implementation could impact as many as 19 million ED visits annually

How will the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 impact emergency department (ED) care in 2020 and beyond? That’s precisely what the authors of a new study published in Radiology wanted to find out.

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Providers share their own experience building structured radiology report templates

Structured report templates are growing in popularity, but creating those templates and implementing them in a health system requires a significant amount of time and effort. After leading such an effort at their own system, a group of specialists wrote about the experience in a new analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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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.