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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ACR updates Appropriateness Criteria, adds new topics

The latest version of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria features updates to 19 topics and adds eight new criteria.

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Fujifilm’s Synapse RIS receives ONC certification

The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has granted HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR certification to Synapse RIS version 6.3.3, from Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A.

Pancreatic surgeons give high marks to structured reporting

Structured reporting of results for multiphasic CT resulted in improved cancer reporting and surgery planning, according to a study published in the February edition of Radiology.

Barriers to useful comparisons of CDS

When it comes to implementing clinical decision support (CDS) systems, system purchasers often lack enough available information to study, compare and contrast systems, according to an article published online Feb. 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Quality of indications improve with computerized physician order entry

The use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in typical inpatient settings increases the quality of imaging indications and improves overall communication among clinicians and radiologists, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Making data work for radiology: Siegel sees future for CDS support

The potential for big data in radiology is limitless—but the industry has a good amount of work ahead if it’s going to capitalize on potential, according to a webinar hosted Jan. 29 by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.

3D printing assists surgeons with practice models

3D printers are providing surgeons with lifelike models and their patients with deeper understanding of the procedures they face.  In addition to more traditional 3D printers that can build muscle and and other structures, newer technologies avialable at places like Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are now able to recreate flesh and bone.

DR Systems ranked top 25 EHR vendor

DR Systems (www.drsys.com), a leader in healthcare imaging and information technologies, was recently named one of the largest vendors of electronic health record (EHR) systems in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare, a major healthcare research and media company.

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