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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Clinical informatics is now board-certified medical subspecialty

AMIAthe association for informatics professionalscompleted a multi-year initiative to elevate clinical informatics (CI) to an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) subspecialty certified by an examination administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and available to physicians who have primary specialty certification through the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Imaging & Informatics Boost Oncology Care

Clinicians working in the multidisciplinary field of oncology are realizing momentous gains in quality and efficiency, partially due to the integration of PACS and the EMR. The informatics-driven results include more informed, expedited and coordinated patient care.

Intermedix buys emergency management software developer

Intermedix, which develops technology-based business services to the emergency healthcare services industry, has acquired Collaborative Fusion of Pittsburgh for an undisclosed sum.

Varian Medical to buy Calypso for $10M

Varian Medical Systems has signed a definitive agreement with Calypso Medical Technologies under which Varian will acquire Calypso.

vRad partners with Doctors Without Borders

Virtual Radiologic (vRad) has announced a global charitable initiative to provide pro bono diagnostic radiology services to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Carestream Health to upgrade Scottish PACS

National Services Scotland (NSS) has reached a new agreement with Carestream Health to upgrade and migrate PACS across the countrys 34 hospitals.

Customers first

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning, according to Bill Gates. The business magnate makes a challenging, and astutely accurate, observation. Imaging stakeholders would do well to heed Gates.

Amirsys, CAP align for pathology education

Amirsys and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) have formed a new partnership to jointly develop online educational products for pathologists.

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.