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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InSite One, Insight Imaging ink results distribution contract

InSite One, a provider of data management and cloud storage services, has entered into a contract with Lake Forest, Calif.-based diagnostic imaging services Insight Imaging for the integration of InSite Ones results distribution tool for images and associated reports, InDex WebAccess, into Insight Imagings RadPortal.

Agfa expands client base by 150

Agfa HealthCare, a developer of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT software, has signed more than 150 agreements globally for its health IT tools during the first eight months of the year.

Ultrasonix releases ultrasound recording software

Ultrasonix has introduced SonixVCR, which is software that records, stores and exports ultrasound exams in a standard digital format.

Covisint nabs CDS developer DocSite

Covisint, a Compuware company, has acquired DocSite, a clinical decision support (CDS) and quality performance management company.

Digital pathology added to DICOM standards

The College of American Pathologists (CAP) has contributed to the expansion of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) medical image exchange standard, Supplement 145, for the accommodation of pathology.

MedAssets to buy Broadlane Group for $850M

MedAssets has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire the Broadlane Group for approximately $850 million in cash, with $725 million to be paid at closing and $125 million to be paid in January 2012.

Iasis Healthcare to acquire two providers for $95M

Iasis Healthcare has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Brim Holdings, which operates Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, and Pikes Peak Regional Hospital in Woodland Park, Colo., in a cash-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $95 million, subject to customary closing conditions and working capital adjustments.

RadNet to buy eRADs parent for $10.75M

RadNet, which provides fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 191 outpatient imaging centers, has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Image Medical, the parent of PACS developer eRAD, for $10.75 million in a combination of cash and promissory notes.

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