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.

Solving the Data Sharing Dilemma

The path to the all-digital healthcare enterprise is strewn with integration hurdles that continue to challenge organizations striving to implement images and information across departments, from admission and registration to treatment and discharge.

Shirking Disaster

The traditional approach to disaster recovery may have reached the tipping point - requiring considerable design modifications.

Redesigning the Reading Room

Redesigning a soft-copy reading room is a multi-faceted and complex process. But facilities report that it is well worth the time and investment.

Top Ten Recommendations for Implementing PACS Security

The University of North Texas (UNT) recently performed a survey to assess PACS security architectures and usage in more than 40 institutions. The facilities ranged in size from 100- to 1,000-bed facilities, and represented anywhere from 50,000 to one million examinations per year.

Long-term Archive Media Costs

Reliability, longevity, cost and ability to grow easily are the key considerations for long-term media.

Cardiology PACS: Heart at Work

Cardiology departments are revamping their image capture and management systems with digital technology to combat growing patient volumes and enhance patient safety, efficiency and overall care.

PACS Archive Migration Strategies

Migrating your PACS archive and database is a non-trivial event; it can be costly, laborious and is in most instances un-anticipated.

Display Calibration Made Easy

Automatic and remote monitoring tools for display calibration are streamlining QC programs and bringing more consistent, high-quality softcopy image viewing.

Around the web

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.

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.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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