Phillipsburg, NJ--The 2018 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Services report, published January 30, 2018, ranks healthcare IT vendors and their solutions on customer satisfaction based on hundreds of interviews with healthcare providers. In this year’s report, INFINITT PACS ranked #1 in PACS Community and #1 in PACS Imaging Centers/Ambulatory categories.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced Thursday, Jan. 4, the publication of appropriate use criteria (AUC) for somatostatin receptor PET imaging in neuroendocrine tumors.

The large difference between learning about something and applying it to real-world situations is a truth that extends to high-risk profession of medicine. Experts say that medical undergraduate education lacks in simulation-based curriculum and is behind other professions that are risky in nature.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., , Aug. 8 — Carestream Health introduced new MR Brain Perfusion and MR Brain Diffusion modules that enable radiologists to read these imaging studies from a CARESTREAM Vue PACS diagnostic viewer (see video link). The company has received FDA 510(k) Clearance for use in the United States, and these new tools also have been approved for use in Europe and other countries across the globe.

Communication with referring physicians is essential in radiology, but it often becomes stressful and frustrating for radiologists when they struggle to track down the right person. This can lead to workflow delays that chip away at various quality metrics and have a negative impact on patient care. In a recent case study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Eduardo J. Matta, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and colleagues worked to improve communication between radiologists and referring physicians by implementing a new, PACS-based software solution.

A group of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital cut the incidence of delayed image delivery to PACS by two-thirds by using an automated system that alerted managers when the time-to-PACS (TTP) had exceeded a certain threshold. The internally developed web application—called Tempus Fugit—demonstrates the potency of targeted workflow intervention in an imaging department.

The IT team at Western Reserve Hospital, a 105-bed, physician-owned institution in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, already had considerable experience with remotely hosted solutions. In 2015, the time came to consider a remote option for its new PACS. 

While helping to steer 105-bed Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, toward a remotely hosted PACS solution, Jeffrey Unger, MD, repeatedly voiced one crucial concern: Would he and his fellow radiologists have to wait at their workstations, precious seconds ticking away, while PACS servers sitting hundreds of miles away processed massive datasets?