Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

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High- and low-tech communication improvements

Finding ways to bridge gaps in communication—both physician-to-physician and physician-to-patient—is a big focus in the search for value in radiology. Two of this week’s top read stories dealt with just this topic.

Healthcare challenges meet promising opportunities: GE Healthcare offers more outcome-driven solutions to support quality care

Healthcare systems’ operational costs continue to spiral out of control, increasing in all aspects of the organization. With a rapidly changing industry environment and evolving patient populations, GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is showcasing a suite of new and enhanced offerings at the 2015 AAMI Annual Conference and Expo to help address these challenges.

FORE Support Services Launches Breakthrough Automated Prior Authorization Software for Imaging Centers at RBMA 2015 Summit

FORE Support Services, a premier developer of health care financial process automation, has announced the launch of its AuthPal automated prior authorization technology. The announcement was made today at the June Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) 2015 Radiology Summit Conference.

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Enterprise imaging: Don’t neglect workflow

Images are being generated everywhere throughout an enterprise. Are you prepared?

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SIIM 2015: Easing the burden of CT protocol monitoring

National Harbor, Md.—Manually maintaining and updating CT scan protocols can be a Herculean task, with protocols extracted in Excel or XML format that can run 25,000 lines long. A tool to help parse these protocols would be a boon to many providers, and that’s just what a group from the University of Pennsylvania set out to create.

SIIM 2015: Prototype system helps patients understand their reports

National Harbor, Md.—Patients want access to their imaging reports, but chances are they won’t be able to make heads or tails of many of the terms used to communicate findings. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania saw a need to make reports more patient-centric.

SIIM 2015: The importance of integrating visible light imaging with PACS

National Harbor, Md. — Radiology departments shouldn’t be alone in harnessing the power of PACS. Visible light imaging can help unlock the value of PACS and distribute it universally throughout an entire enterprise.

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10 tips for creating an enterprise image strategy

“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

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