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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Spending spree? Baxter adds Synovis for $325M

Blood-product and intravenous-drug maker Baxter has acquired Synovis Life Technologies, which produces devices and biological products used in soft-tissue repair, for $325 million.

JACR: Direct communication with patients presents golden opportunity

As patient access to imaging data increases with the adoption of online patient portals, direct communication of study results to patients could provide an opportunity to improve patient satisfaction and reassert the importance of the physician-patient relationship in radiology, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

KLAS: Wave of PACS replacements will surpass $10M

PACS replacements, which had slowed overall, are expected to ramp up significantly riding a wave of replacements starting in the largest hospitals and eventually sweeping over smaller facilities. Nearly one in six hospitals and health systems with over 1,000 beds reported they have plans to replace their PACS, according to a recent report from market researcher KLAS.

RSNA: Meet the clinical diagnostic radiologist

CHICAGO--PACS has revolutionized radiology, but has separated radiologists from their clinical colleagues. Its essential for radiologists to re-define their role and become clinical diagnostic radiologists, according to a poster presentation on Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

RSNA: Personal cloud servers offer a low-cost, secure option

CHICAGO--Commercial cloud computing data sharing such as Evernote and Dropbox are used every day by the general public and offer all the advantages of mobile data retrieval, but they are not appropriate for radiologists to share medical information with one another. One alternative could be the creation of a personal cloud that is maintained by the department that uses it, according to a poster presentation at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

RSNA: Chang predicts PACS 3.0

CHICAGO--Radiology is witnessing the maturation of digital image management technologies and has entered a new phase, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, chair of radiology informatics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, during a session on Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

ACS acquires The Breakaway Group

ACS, a Xerox company, has acquired The Breakaway Group, developer of PromisePoint, a cloud-based service to help healthcare professionals accelerate their EMR adoption.

RSNA: Non-DICOM formatted CDs on the rise

CHICAGOOver the past decade, radiology has transitioned away from the use of hard copy films to digital media on CD, but one issue that still remains is ensuring that all files are in the internationally derived DICOM standard. While the majority of CDs are in DICOM format, there has been an increasing number of non-DICOM formats, according to a study presented at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA).

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