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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Biosensors acquires U.S. stent maker for $1.1M

Biosensors International Group has acquired certain assets of CardioMind for a total consideration of $1.1 million. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., CardioMind develops stent systems to treat small coronary lesions.

KLAS: CVIS is dropping the ball

Thirty percent of respondents in a new report from research firm KLAS are considering replacing their cardiovascular information system (CVIS) software because of ongoing frustrations with product functionality and integration.

Opportunity knocks

Imaging informatics seems to face a series of impossible demands. Clinicians want rich PACS/EMR integration with one-click image access in the EMR; administrators demand real-time, customized dashboards; and dollars and staff are in short supply. Nevertheless, smart players in the image management world are finding ways to leverage technology and people to devise real solutions.

Intelerad introduces InteleViewer for Apple products

Intelerad Medical Systems has released an image and report access application for Mac users, the 64-bit InteleViewer for Macintosh computers from Apple.

Select Medical seeks to buy Regency hospitals for $210M

Select Medical Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity securities of Regency Hospital Company, an operator of long-term, acute-care hospitals, for approximately $210 million, including certain assumed liabilities.

Sectra mammo PACS deployed Down Under

Sectra has signed a contract with the Australian Capital Territory department of health to install its breast imaging PACS and three MicroDose Mammography units in Canberra, Australia.

Merge offers Portuguese version of eFilmWorkstation

Merge Healthcare has entered a distribution agreement with Microdata Tecnologia, a PACS and medical imaging technology manufacturer in Brazil, where it will have exclusive access to a Portuguese language version of Merges eFilm Workstation.

ABII certifies 64 new imaging informatics pros

The American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII) has named 64 new certified imaging informatics professionals, following the completion of the seventh ABII exam in March.

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