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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JDI: Voice recognition is double-edged sword

While voice recognition dictation systems hold many benefits, the systems are a double-edged sword because of their many pitfalls, including high error rates, according to research published in the August edition of the Journal of Digital Imaging.

East coast practices tap Merge for meaningful use

Reston Radiology Consultants in Reston, Va., Washington Radiology Associates in Washington, D.C., Shady Grove Radiological Consultants in Germantown, Md., and Advanced Diagnostic Radiology in Cumberland, Md., have selected Merge RIS to meet meaningful use (MU) requirements.

Baxter to buy Baxa for $380M for larger piece of IV industry

Baxter International, maker of intravenous (IV) devices, is intending to buy Baxa, which makes devices used to prepare liquid medication. Baxter is headquartered in Deerfield, Ill., and is worth around $18 billion, according to public records. 

Aptiv Solutions acquires Medical Device Consultants

Aptiv Solutions, a Reston, Va.-based developer of clinical trial management services to the medical device industry, purchased Medical Device Consultants (MDCI), a device and diagnostic service provider that has prepared and submitted more than 600 successful 510(k)s.

CAE Healthcare acquires METI for $130M

CAE Healthcare, a developer of medical education simulators and software based in Montreal, has purchased Medical Education Technologies (METI), which previously competed in the same market space, for $130 million.

Lockheed Martin's acquisition to expand health IT reach

Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin has entered in to a definitive agreement to acquire QTC Holdings. Terms and conditions of the agreement were not disclosed.

JACR: NLP remains underused in radiology

Although natural language processing (NLP) offers multiple useful applications, radiologists have not yet embraced the technology, according to an article published in the September issue of Journal of American College of Radiology.

AJR: Volume reading speeds mass casualty workflow

Sixty-four slice CT, coupled with volume image reading, demonstrated significant time savings in a simulated mass casualty incident, according to a study published in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

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