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.

Signify Research analyst Amy Thompson discusses connecting pathology and others with enterprise imaging systems.

Interest rising to connect pathology, other departments to enterprise imaging systems

Signify Research senior analyst Amy Thompson explains the trend of connecting various departments to enterprise imaging systems. She said digital pathology may soon become the third largest user of these systems.

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Interpretive AI for medical imaging: 5 points of skepticism, idealism

Surveying the landscape of interpretive AI in radiology, two researchers note a yawning gap between great expectations set in the recent past and actual clinical implementations as of spring 2023.

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New AI tool helps radiologists reduce read times by up to 40%

Its use dropped the average time needed to examine a finding at all timepoints from 107 seconds to 65 seconds, with pulmonary nodule assessments benefiting from the greatest reductions.

Google's latest large language model is poised to give ChatGPT a run for its money in imaging

One of the main goals of Med-PaLM 2 is to “synthesize information like X-rays and mammograms to one day improve patient outcomes.” 

Natural language processing helps increase follow-up imaging adherence, resulting in significant revenue

A new paper details how a team at the University of California utilized a hybrid system consisting of a quality coordinator and NLP software to bring in more than $60,000 in additional revenue from follow-up imaging alone.

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Nearly 90% of significant incidental findings on lung cancer screenings are considered reportable

These findings highlight a need for more stringent and standardized reporting guidelines relative to incidental findings, authors of the new study suggested.

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ChatGPT helps radiologist churn out 16 papers in 4 months

“Healthcare is going to change. Writing is going to change. Research is going to change. I’m just trying to publish now and show it so people can know about it and explore more.” 

PHOTO GALLERY of radiology technologies at HIMSS 2023

Many new imaging solutions were on display at the world's largest health informatics conference, held at McCormick Place in Chicago.

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

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.