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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Consortium to purchase Kinetic Concepts for $6.3B

A consortium comprised of Apax Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) has entered into a merger agreement to purchase global medical technology company Kinetic Concepts (KCI) for $68.50 per share, or $6.3 billion.

Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires TREK Diagnostic Systems

Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired TREK Diagnostic Systems from Magellan Biosciences.

Bacterin acquires assets of Robinson MedSurg

Bacterin International Holdings has acquired the assets of Robinson MedSurg (RMS).

Siemens highlights CT offerings at SCCT

Siemens Healthcare sponsored a series of symposia and showcased its most recent CT scanner and image interpretation software at this years meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.

AJR: Cumulative dose estimates should not guide CT decision-making

As the movement to include dose estimates in the EMR gains traction, physicians need to proceed with caution and avoid using cumulative radiation dose estimates to inform individual patient care, according to an editorial published in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

NCI designates Roswell Park Cancer Institute a center of excellence

Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has been named a Center of Quantitative Imaging Excellence by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

TeraRecon to demo iNtuition Cloud at SCCT

Health IT company TeraRecon showed iNtuition advanced visualization and cloud products at this years scientific meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.

DigiPath to develop pathologist-driven advisory board

Digital pathology company DigiPath has fielded a medical advisory board in an attempt to expand international adoption of digital pathology systems.

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