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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Connecting the Dots

HIMSS 2012 is right around the corner, and the conference provides the ideal setting to reflect on the expanding role of imaging informatics across the enterprise.

CardioNet buys ECG Scanning

CardioNet, a wireless medical technology company with a focus on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, has acquired ECG Scanning & Medical Services.

50-card group Midwest Heart joins with Advocate

Midwest Heart Specialists, an independent cardiology practice in Illinois with 50 physicians, has integrated with Advocate Medical Group, and will now be known as Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical Group.

A PHR Based Radiology Image Exchange - Interoperability through Patient Empowerment: 02.21, 9:45-10:45am

This session will present an IHE-based image sharing network that has adapted the XDS profile to engage consumers in image-enabled PHRs. 

Enterprise Imaging: Expanding Beyond the PACS: 02.21, 12:15-1:15pm

This session will focus on the enterprise PACS project at Cleveland Clinic, which includes all image-generating departments. Topics include workflow, support models and financing.

McKesson nabs peerVue

McKesson has acquired peerVue, which provides radiology workflow and communications systems.

Guiding Clinicians Toward Accountability with CDS: 02.22, 2:15-3:15pm

In this session, the speaker will discuss principles of effective clinical decision support (CDS) to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care, and provide examples of how CDS can support accountable care.

Telus delves further into EMRs with Wolf Medical purchase

EMR vendor Wolf Medical Systems has been acquired by Telus Health Solutions, a telecommunications company, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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