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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US Oncology scoops up N.C. rad onc center

Cancer Centers of North Carolina (CCNC), an affiliate of the United Network of US Oncology, has purchased Wake Radiology Oncology Services.

GPO aligns with Infinitt

Amerinet established an agreement with Infinitt North America for its full line of enterprise image and information management systems.

Radiology: New approaches to managing mega datasets

Interpreting the large imaging datasets generated by advanced imaging systems requires radiologists to adopt new tools and technologies, including some developed and used outside of healthcare, according to an overview published in the May issue of Radiology.

Awarepoint acquires Patient Care Technology

Awarepoint, a provider of real-time location system (RTLS) tools for hospitals, has acquired Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS).

KLAS: Providers prize RIS/PACS integration

Providers are looking for vendors that offer not only functionality, but also integration between a RIS and PACS, according to a recent report from market research firm KLAS.

Radiology: CD import for ED transfers could cut CT imaging by 484,000 exams

Brigham and Womens Hospital cut subsequent diagnostic imaging by 17 percent and subsequent CT imaging by 16 percent after implementing CD import to PACS among emergency department (ED) transfer patients, according to a study published in the May edition of Radiology. The authors characterized the CD import system as a partial success and noted the need for more reliable, health IT-based image transfer mechanisms.

Radiology: Lung lesion follow-up recommendationsroom for improvement

A group of radiologists generally agreed on nodule growth on follow-up CT scans at lung cancer screening, but differed in their follow-up recommendations for lower-risk nodules, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.

MD-IT, MDnetwork merge

Medical documentation software company MD-IT has completed a merger agreement with MDnetwork, a privately held EMR system optimization provider, under which MDnetwork will operate as a division of MD-IT. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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