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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Digital pathology consortium ready for open source business

The Open Source Digital Pathology Consortium (OpenDP) announced its formation earlier this month at the Pathology Informatics 2011 meeting in Pittsburgh.

OPKO buys Claro Diagnostics

Miami-based OPKO Health has acquired Woburn, Mass.-based Claro Diagnostics, a developer of a method to use microfluidics to perform up to 20 tests with a drop of blood.

KLAS: Teleradiology market shifting

Teleradiology Solutions is the number one ranked teleradiology firm in the U.S., according to a new KLAS report titled Teleradiology Services 2011: Times are Changing.

Cerner to acquire Clairvia

Kansas City-based Cerner has reached an agreement to acquire Durham, N.C.-based Clairvia, a healthcare workforce management technology developer, for an undisclosed sum.

Survey: Diagnostic errors prevalent, CPOE can help

Nearly half of physicians encounter diagnostic errors in their practice at least monthly, according to a 6,400-clinician survey commissioned by QuantiaMD.

AHIMA announces Triumph Award winners

SALT LAKE CITY--The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced its annual AHIMA Triumph Awards recipients, which honor the excellence, dedication and service of health information management (HIM) professionals and their accomplishments in the HIM field. The presentations were made during AHIMAs 83rd Convention and Exhibit on Oct. 3.

AHIMA pushes for HIM workforce to be included in jobs bill

SALT LAKE CITYThe American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced its HIM Jobs for America Initiative at AHIMAs 83rd annual convention Oct. 3, in what the association said will be a sustained effort to support employment in the U.S., as well as help improve healthcare for underserved Americans.

Elekta divests pathology software to Sunquest for $33M

Elekta, a Stockholm-based maker of equipment and software used in radiation oncology and neurosurgery, has divested its Anatomic Pathology Information System business to U.S.-based Sunquest Information Systems for $32.8 million.

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