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 to showcase enterprise imaging solutions, AI initiative at HIMSS18

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. will be displaying its latest enterprise imaging and informatics solutions, and highlighting its artificial intelligence (AI) development initiative, March 5-9 at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas.

AHRA hosts stakeholders from imaging societies, vendors to discuss AUC requirements

AHRA, the Association for Medical Imaging Management, hosted representatives from numerous imaging societies and vendors on Feb. 20 to brainstorm recommendations on implementing CMS’s upcoming requirement that ordering physicians must consult clinical decision support/appropriate use criteria (AUC) when ordering certain advanced imaging services.
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Referring clinicians prefer structured radiology reports over prose reports

Referring clinicians of all experience levels find structured radiology reports to have better readability and better clinical utility than traditional prose reports, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Digital tool could decrease reporting variance among radiologists

A computer-based reporting tool could be reducing report variation among radiologists, according to data published this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Radiology in Rio: Evaluating medical imaging’s role at the 2016 Summer Olympics

With the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, holding its closing ceremony on Feb. 25, researchers are now sharing an investigation of imaging-depicted sports-related injuries that took place during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group published its full findings in Radiology.

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Team tracks timely CT workflow in acute stroke patients

Timely CT scans are a crucial component of a stroke patient’s immediate treatment plan, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a method for tracking efficiency in institutions nationwide.

Carestream Earns 2018 KLAS Category Leader Award for Global PACS in Asia/Oceania Region for Second Year Running

Carestream Health has again earned top ratings from healthcare IT and radiology professionals for its Carestream Radiology module of the Clinical Collaboration Platform CARESTREAM Vue Radiology PACS.

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Q&A: Mayo Clinic’s Persons and Nye on enterprise imaging, envisioned and realized

Enterprise imaging is top of mind for radiology because radiology has a place at the top of many efforts to drive “every-ology” image access into hospitals and health systems across the U.S. One health system lighting the way into enterprise imaging’s future is the Mayo Clinic. The multi-state, Rochester, Minn.-based institution has been pursuing enterprise imaging since as far back as 1999.

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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.