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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Brainlab to acquire Voyant Health

Radiology and health IT manufacturer Brainlab has entered a definitive agreement to acquire surgical IT company Voyant Health, the companies said June 6.

Florida rad group taps GE workflow suite

Radiology & Imaging Specialists of Lakeland, Fla., has invested in GE Healthcare Centricity OneView to create a single radiologist workflow across multiple hospitals.

Insulet picks up Neighborhood Diabetes for $63M

Insulet, a diabetes device developer, has acquired Neighborhood Diabetes, a medical equipment distributor of diabetes supplies for an estimated $63 million in cash and stock.

SIIM Q&A: Vendor neutral archives at a glance

WASHINGTON, D.C.A  panel of industry members shared a wealth of expertise about vendor neutral archives during a June 4 question and answer session at the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

SIIM: Radiology report comparator builds know-how

WASHINGTON, D.C.IT has enabled radiologists to read a larger volume of studies from just about anywhere; but in the process, radiologists have often become more distanced from residents, who may render inaccurate preliminary reports without ever finding out their mistakes. Although technology has given rise to this cleavage in training, IT may also deliver the solution, according to a June 2 presentation at the meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

SIIM: Vital Images introduces universal viewer

Vital Images is debuting VitreaView, a universal viewer that provides uniform access to patient imaging and is accessible through the EMR, EHR and health information exchange, at the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Washington, D.C., June 2-5.

Novarad unveils combined C-PACS, CVIIS

Novarad will debut NovaCardio, an integrated C-PACS image and cardiovascular image and information management system (CVIIS).

Terumo buys stem cell firm for $70M

Terumo Americas Holding, a U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Terumo, has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Harvest Technologies, a biotechnology developer of point-of-care technologies that allows physicians to derive autologous, adult stem cells from their patients, for $70 million.

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