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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RIS/PACS Migration & Integration Offer Challenges for Imaging Centers

Deploying PACS capabilities beyond a single radiology facility provides the opportunity of extending the reach of diagnostic imaging to a greatly expanded customer base. The benefits to imaging center practitioners are straightforwardincreased market share and greater efficiencies from existing personnel.

OrthoPACS: The Information Backbone of the Orthopedic Clinic

Due to growing imaging utilization and the push toward heightened integration between IT systems and imaging modalities, orthopedic clinics are increasingly adopting PACS in their practices.

Digital Endoscopy: Challenges for Enterprise Imaging

At first glance, it would seem that the pieces are in place for bringing digital endoscopy onto the enterprise PACS; however, according to a pair of healthcare informatics pioneers who have set themselves this task, there are still issues remaining to be resolved.

PACS: An Enterprise Priority

Deploying PACS beyond the physical and virtual walls of the radiology department or imaging center, regardless of size, provides the opportunity to extend beyond the reach of diagnostic imaging to a broader range of caregivers and enabling improved efficiencies, cost savings and better patient care.

Good Image Management: Infiltrating Molecular Imaging

The growing interest in nuclear medicine, especially the surge inhybrid imaging, calls for good workflow and plenty of storage. PET/CTand SPECT/CT are changing the way cancer is detected and tracked sovendors of information systems, PACS and software vendors are offeringsolutions designed to meet the new image management landscape.

Blurring the Lines: Interfaced vs. Integrated RIS/PACS

The differences between interfaced and integrated RIS/PACS are nolonger cut and dry as industry definitions are redefined and manyvendors offer single, integrated solutions with clear benefits.

Availability, Applications Drive New Archive Strategies

Data availability is crucial for the provision of quality medical care. Healthcare data flows and interacts with multiple sources within and across institutions. Therefore, the backbone of the diagnostic matrix—patient histories, imaging studies and lab results—must be available at all times whenever and wherever they’re needed.

Inside the Transition to Next-Generation Image Management

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

Radiology operates in a constantly and rapidly changing environment. Consequently, digital image management is an ongoing project. The common denominators at hospitals across the country include investment in new data-intense imaging modalities, PACS infusion throughout the enterprise, bursting archives and overburdened radiologists and technologists. 

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