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.

RSS icon

Imaging Reaches for the Cloud

The surge in imaging study volume and pursuit of quality has yielded both tremendous benefits and contentious repercussions for patients, providers and payors. But behind the scenes, IT leadership is working on a cardinal issuewhere to store the ballooning number of studies and allow quick recall when needed.

Carestream secures PACS orders

Naval Medical Center San Diego has purchased a radiology and cardiology PACS and Clinical Data Archive from Carestream Health.

Medtronic completes $800M purchase of Ardian

Medtronic has completed the acquisition of privately held Ardian, a developer of catheter-based therapies to treat hypertension and related conditions.

Atherotech bought by private equity firm

Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York City and San Francisco, has acquired Atherotech, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of cardiometabolic testing services that offers the VAP (Vertical Auto Profile) advanced lipid profile test.

California rad practice taps Merge iConnect

Radiology Associates of Sacramento, a private radiology practice in northern California, has expanded its Merge Healthcare suite to include Merge iConnect.

Tampa Heart acquires Heart & Vascular Institute of Florida South

The Tampa Bay Heart Institute at Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., acquired the Heart and Vascular Institute of Florida South on Jan. 1.

JACR: Failure to comply with DICOM, IHE linked to CD viewing problems

A survey published in the January issue of the Journal of American College of Radiology outlined three primary problems associated with portable media exchange: access, importability and viewing issues. The authors also reported noncompliance and a lack of knowledge about compliance with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Portable Data for Imaging (IHE PDI) and DICOM.

JACR: RTs suffer repetitive stress differently from rads

Seventy percent of radiology technologists (RTs) reported work-related repetitive stress symptoms, while nearly half had been previously diagnosed with the syndrome, according to a study performed at a large academic institution and published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Displaying 1657 - 1664 of 1984

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business
Positron partners with Upbeat Cardiology Solutions to improve cardiac PET/CT access

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.