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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AAMI keynote: Converging technologies make for exponential advances

CHARLOTTE, N.C.Healthcare technologies are not just getting more sophisticated. As multiple areas of research, innovation and data management rise and converge, theyre leading toward exponential advances tooadvances that will challenge even the most tech-savvy healthcare technology managers to keep up. That was the crux of the June 2 welcome address and keynote session at the 2012 annual conference of AAMI, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.

New imaging device may help unravel chronic ear infection mysteries

A novel device that weds the capabilities of low-coherence tomography (LCT) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) identified bacterial biofilms, which have been linked to chronic otitis media (OM). The technology could inform understanding of chronic OM and enable early detection and treatment monitoring, according to a study published online May 28 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

New clinical informatics subspecialty is a go

The American Board of Medical Specialties has approved the American Board of Preventive Medicine's application for subspecialty certification in clinical informatics.

SAP purchasing Ariba for $4.3B

SAP America has entered into an agreement to acquire Ariba, a cloud-based business commerce network, for an enterprise value of approximately $4.3 billion.

Omnicell buys med management developer for $156M

Supply management tools and analytics software developer Omnicell has completed the acquisition of MTS Medication Technologies, a medication management equipment and software developer, for $156 million.

ONC offers $150K to solve ophthalmology interoperability woes

Figuring out how to improve interoperability among office-based ophthalmic imaging devices would solve a lot of headaches related to data management within the specialty, and, thanks to a contest from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), it could also make a developer or team of developers $100,000 richer.

Agilents $2.2B acquisition expands penetration in cancer diagnostics

Agilent, a developer of biological, chemical and electronic analysis equipment that spun off from Hewlett-Packard in the late 1990s, is planning to buy Danish cancer-diagnostics concern Dako for $2.2 billion, in cash, from its current owner, a Swedish private equity firm called EQT.

Telemis tacks on cloud storage to its PACS

Telemis has added a cloud data storage to the options available for its PACS customers to provide storage and access to data such as PET/CT scans, and to meet patient-data handling requirements imposed by local or national authorities.

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