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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GE Healthcare IT appoints Jackman as new VP

GE Healthcare IT has appointed Michael Jackman, MBA, to the role of vice president and general manager of its specialty solutions business.

NLP Speaks Volumes

Providers are harnessing natural language processing (NLP) to address unstructured data challenges and reinvent patient care and clinician workflow.

Siegel to deliver Dwyer lecture at SIIM annual meeting

Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor and vice chair of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, will deliver the 2012 Dwyer Lecture at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting on June 8 in Orlando, Fla.

Zimmer purchases Synvasive

Surgical product maker Zimmer has acquired Synvasive Technology, best known for its Stablecut surgical-saw blades and eLibra system used in knee replacement surgery.

Report: Double-digit growth to propel PACS market to $5.4B by 2017

The global PACS market, valued at $2.8 billion in 2010, is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 percent to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to a MarketResearch.com report titled Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) Global Opportunity Assessment, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2017.

Positron buys Manhattan Isotope for $3.5M

Positron has acquired all of the assets and business operations and retained all employees of Manhattan Isotope Technology (MIT). In exchange, MIT will receive cash advances, assumption of certain indebtedness and earn-out consideration of $3.5 million, based on 20 percent of the net income from sales relating to radioisotope and radiopharmaceutical operations of MIT.

Sectra to bring RIS/PACS to Nashville General Hospital at Meharry

Sectra, the healthcare IT system developer based in Linkping, Sweden, has reached a multi-year agreement to bring its RIS/PACS suite to Nashville General Hospital at Meharry in Nashville, Tenn.

JACR: PACS can communicate images, but not physician trust

The widespread adoption of PACS has led to a number of improvements in patient careincreased productivity, elimination of film, increased image accessibilitybut along with those benefits, PACS adoption has put a wedge in communication between radiologists and referring physicians, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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