Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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Enterprise PACS packs the punch when it doubles as a VNA too

Sponsored by Sectra

There is no doubt that vendor neutral archives (VNAs) have gained favor over the last several years in managing medical images. But there is some debate over whether hospitals really need both a VNA and a PACS. If PACS can do double duty as VNA and PACS, why do you need both? As we see it, you don’t, as long as you have a true enterprise PACS and here’s why.

IntellaPACS announces name change to Emergent Connect

In an effort to further its commitment to healthcare, IntellaPACS, a leading provider of cloud-based PACS software, has changed its corporate name to Emergent Connect.

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Riverside University Health System springboards from PACS upgrade to EMR collaboration

Sponsored by Sectra

Nearly two decades ago, the PACS race was on in Southern California’s Inland Empire. The main event pitted the regional medical center, 439-bed Riverside County Regional Medical Center, against the larger 719-bed Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). In 1998, Riverside won the race by about six months, installing the first PACS in the region and, in the process, becoming the first hospital in the U.S. to select Sectra PACS.

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PACS & EMR Integration: Carilion Clinic Improves Speed, Connectivity and Access

Sponsored by Sectra

It was early 2015 when the team at Carilion Clinic decided they had outgrown their PACS and needed to replace their decade-old system.

Physician-author explores the downside of PACS

The rapid adoption of PACS allowed the medical industry to watch the first specialty digitize before our eyes: radiology. While the economic and clinical benefits are substantiated and accepted by nearly all, Bob Wachter focuses on a different element; how they've affected the place of the radiologist within the care center. 

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PACS market on pace for growth through 2021

An aging, chronically ill population and the increasingly quick adoption of technology are contributors to the medical imaging management market's growth in the next five years, which will reach $5.78 billion by 2021, according to a Markets and Markets report.

SNMMI concerned about oncology coverage guidelines

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging expressed its concern with an updated list of oncology coding recommendations released by eviCore, a benefits management company. 

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PACS Roundtable, Part 2: The Ideal PACS-EMR Relationship

An expert panel weighs in on what makes the PACS-EMR integration click.

Around the web

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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