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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McKesson completes Portico acquisition

McKesson has completed its acquisition of Portico Systems, and will leverage Porticos technology to automate new reimbursement and network management strategies for health reform. Terms were not disclosed.

Merge lands major Chicago iConnect install

Interoperability and imaging IT company Merge Healthcare has locked an installation contract for its iConnect software at Childrens Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Indiana hospital to install Merge iConnect

Porter Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased Merges iConnect image interoperability platform.

athenahealth to buy Proxsys for up to $36M

athenahealth, a developer of cloud-based practice management, EHR and patient communication services, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proxsys, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of cloud-based care coordination services between physicians and hospitals.

S.C. provider to install Carestream RIS/PACS

Palmetto Primary Care of Charleston, S.C., has moved to replace its RIS/PACS with its installation of Carestream Healths Vue RIS and PACS platforms.

Express Scripts, Medco enter $29B merger

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions have entered into a definitive merger agreement.

Premier extends Agfa contract

Agfa HealthCare has been awarded a three-year contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, setting up the imaging and health IT company to offer film and other imaging accessories to thousands of U.S. providers.

Spine clinics tap Novarad

North Jersey Spine Group, in Wayne, N.J., and Alegent Health Back & Spine Institute, in Omaha, Neb., selected NovaOrtho, Novarads orthopedic PACS that facilitates image and information management and provides orthopedic pre-op templates.

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