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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Health plans partner with Lumeris to purchase NaviNet

Health IT vendor Lumeris is partnering with three health plans associated with the BlueCross BlueShield Association to acquire NaviNet, a health information exchange provider headquartered in Boston.

JAMIA: PACS potential great in ICU, but more research needed

PACS has shown potential to positively impact practices in the intensive care unit (ICU), particularly with regard to efficiency, though actual evidence is limited and much about how PACS affects the intensive care setting remains to be investigated, according to a review of literature published online Feb. 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

NCI using HL7 to move clinical trial data

The National Cancer Institute is partnering with Health Level Seven, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based nonprofit standards developer, to package clinical trial data using HL7 Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), allowing the information to be made available in patient EHRs

AJR: No repeats--Importing outside exams to PACS cuts imaging

Importing images from one institution to the PACS at another reduces the number of repeat imaging exams when transferring care of a patient between two facilities, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

HIMSS: Medical imaging moves to the cloud

LAS VEGASCloud-based image management can help deliver improved real-time access to medical images anywhere and on any device, Andrew J. Lee, PhD, chief scientist, Harris Healthcare Solutions in Melbourne, Fla., said Feb. 22 at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Patient Satisfaction: From Massages to DICOM

Patient satisfaction has become the metric du jour in imaging. Thats why it figures prominently in this issue.

HIMSS: Enterprise imaging project tops 1,200 terabytes

LAS VEGASCleveland Clinic is building an enterprise imaging repository that allows physicians to visualize everything that happens to the patient, including radiology images, tissue pathology, digital photos and more, according to Louis M. Lannum, director of enterprise imaging at Cleveland Clinic, who detailed the organizations progress toward an enterprise repository during a Feb. 21 session at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

HIMSS: Is the end of the CD era approaching?

LAS VEGASImage-enabled personal health records (PHRs), the cornerstone of an IHE-based image sharing network, have leveraged the cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) profile to engage consumers, David S. Mendelson, MD, chief of clinical informatics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, said during a Feb. 22 session at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. The PHR model mimics (and could augment) the CD-based image exchange model.

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