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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Wolters Kluwer Health to acquire Pharmacy OneSource

Wolters Kluwer Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Pharmacy OneSource, a healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that helps hospitals manage patient safety, compliance and efficiency.

ScImage, NextGen offer medical image integration module

ScImage, an enterprise imaging and informatics company, has partnered with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to jointly release a medical image integration module powered by ScImage technology that provides NextGen EHR users simultaneous access to patient- and study-centric medical images.

Q&A: What CMIOs need to know about the radiology department

Common ground can unite disparate factions, even in a healthcare setting. Process optimization and meaningful measurements are two areas that are crucial to both CMIOs and radiologists, according to Hans-Peter Busch, MD, radiologist, professor and physicist. In a recent interview with CMIO, Busch, manager of the imaging center at Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brder, a 600-bed hospital in Trier, Germany, said improved communication is also key to a solid working relationship between the CMIO and the radiology department.

Medtronic to buy blood pressure device developer for $800M

Medtronic has entered a merger agreement to acquire the privately held Ardian for an up-front cash payment of $800 million, plus commercial milestones equal to the annual revenue growth through the end of Medtronics fiscal year 2015. Ardian develops catheter-based therapies to treat hypertension and related conditions.

RSNA: PACS may endanger relationship between rads and clinicians

CHICAGO--The transition to digital image management may have diminished the role of the radiologist as a member of the clinical team and made it more difficult for radiologists to remain connected with their clinical colleagues, according to a pilot study to be presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 28 to Dec. 3.

LeMaitre nabs Angiotech's vascular graft unit for $2.8M, cuts off Edwards

LeMaitre Vascular has purchased Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Lifespan Vascular Graft manufacturing business for $2.8 million.

Cardinal Health looks to buy pharma distributor for $1.3B

Cardinal Health is planning to acquire Kinray, a pharmaceutical distributor, for $1.3 billion in an all-cash transaction that will expand its ability to serve retail independent pharmacies in the northeastern U.S.

RSNA: Infinitt's PACS goes mobile

Infinitt, (Booth 2818) a developer of image and information management technologies for healthcare, is introducing its Infinitt Mobile PACS at this year's Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference, to be held Nov. 28 to Dec. 3 in Chicago.

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