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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RSNA: Informatics will drive patient-centric radiology

CHICAGORadiology informatics is in its infancy, and new technologies combined with continued governmental oversight, will  bring radiologists into a more patient-centric, less department-dependent environment, according to a Nov. 28 presentation by Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Image Management Across the Ologies: A Tale of Two Modalities

A growing number of hospitals are transitioning to an enterprise-wide, centralized archive that houses both radiology and non-radiology imaging datasets.

Weathering the Storm: Cloud Technology & Disaster Recovery

More facilities have turned to virtualization and cloud data storage as part of the comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

RSNA: Department mindset must keep pace with image sharing tech

CHICAGOAs network and internet-based image sharing strategies begin to overtake physical media such as CDs, care providers need a different mindset when it comes to image communication, according to a presentation on Nov. 27 at the 97th annual scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Covidien grows in gastroenterology with $325M Barrx buy

Three days before Thanksgiving, healthcare behemoth Covidien announced that it will gobble up Barrx Medical for $325 million in cash.

Display Upgrade Makes the Grade

NDS Surgical Imaging, LLC

When Kaleida Health, a five-hospital system in Buffalo, N.Y., began the process of replacing its radiology PACS and cardiology PACS in mid-2010, it also decided to refresh its displays. The enterprise-wide upgrade entailed display systems across four department, radiology, cardiology, emergency medicine and critical care.

RSNA: Putting patients in charge of image sharing makes for better care

CHICAGOPatients at three major medical institutions can control the sharing of their medical images and reports with their physicians and medical providers through the use of the RSNA Image Share network, demonstrated Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). By facilitating access to imaging exams for patients and physicians, the network potentially reduces unnecessary examinations, minimizes patient radiation exposure and enables better informed medical decisions.

3D Systems to buy Vidar for $137M

3D systems will acquire Vidar Systems. The news is part of a wider announcement in which the Contex Group, a subsidiary of Ratos, signed an agreement to sell its subsidiaries Vidar Systemes and Z Corporation to 3D Systems for $137 million.

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