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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Quest moves to buy Celera for $671M

Quest Diagnostics has commenced a tender offer for Celera, a genetic diagnostics developer, for $8 per share in cash, or approximately $671 million.

MD-IT buys transcription company

MD-IT, a provider of medical documentation software, has acquired Word For Word Transcription, a company in Lake Worth, Fla.

Voice Recognition: Five Strategies for Optimal Use

Since radiologists first began using voice recognition more than 30 years ago, supporters and resistors have debated the software intenselyin clinical journals as well as across reading room cubicle walls.

Outpatient Imaging Affiliates scoops up 7 imaging centers

Outpatient Imaging Affiliates has acquired seven outpatient imaging centers in Tennessee, Alabama and Colorado from Diagnostic Health.

Edwards buys Embrella for $43M

Edwards Lifesciences has acquired Embrella Cardiovascular, the developer of the Embrella Embolic Deflector System that can be used during transcatheter heart valve procedures, for a purchase price of approximately $43 million in cash.

ECR: TeraRecon emphasizes iNtuition

TeraRecon highlighted iNtuition at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 3 to March 7 in Vienna.

Physio-Control acquires maker of Lucas

Physio-Control, a subsidiary of Medtronic, has acquired privately held Jolife, developer of the Lucas chest compression system, headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

HIMSS: Merge's iConnect gets interoperability thumbs up

Merge Healthcare featured its health IT interoperability platform, including iConnect, which recently passed conformance testing at the IHE North American Connectathon, during the 2011 HIMSS conference last week in Orlando, Fla.

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