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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Embedded reading rooms mean more face time with clinicians

Embedding reading rooms in clinical areas, rather than locating them centrally in a separate area of an institution, increased the amount of face-to-face interaction between radiologists and clinicians, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Battlefield Innovations Boost Medical Care from Baghdad to Boston

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” observes David W. Ross, DO, with Front Range Emergency Specialists in Colorado Springs, Colo., explaining that many advances in trauma management originate on the battlefield.

Heroes & Leaders: Boston & Beyond

The simple definition of hero is one who shows great courage and is admired for achievements and noble qualities. We witnessed countless acts of heroism in April as first responders, runners, bystanders and providers responded to the Boston Marathon bombings.

Radiology? There’s an App for that—The iPad & Imaging

While tablet computing had been around long before the launch of the iPad in spring 2010, its move into the mainstream has been nothing short of revolutionary. Tablets are everywhere, including medicine, and they hold particular promise for radiology.

SIIM Takes Dallas by Storm

The Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) slated its 2013 annual meeting for the Big D. This year’s meeting highlights innovation and entrepreneurship in imaging informatics in learning tracks, special sessions and in Innovation Alley, says Katherine P. Andriole, PhD, committee chair and associate professor, department of radiology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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Next-gen Productivity for Enterprise Imaging

Sponsored by GE Healthcare

Radiology departments have been seeking ways to work better—managing images from multiple PACS and multiple departments and seeking to increase radiologists' reading efficiency by delivering more information to their workstation. But in a world of disparate PACS and multi-ology images, what is the solution?

Merge Reports Record First Quarter Sales

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced its financial and business results for the first quarter of 2013.

Teleradiology and telemedicine technology offers patients same-day second opinions from board certified experts

USARAD.com, a leading US Joint Commission Accredited teleradiology and telemedicine solutions provider is officially launching long awaited SecondOpinions.com at the American Telemedicine Association Conference in Austin, Texas, May 5-7.

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