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.

Less than half of incidental interstitial lung abnormalities on CT exams are reported
This is despite experts cautioning that these findings should be "systematically and fully assessed" due to their progressive nature.
Are providers too trusting of AI's advice?
“When we rely too much on whatever the computer tells us, that’s a problem."
Pairing an alert system with CAD software halves time-to-treatment for pneumothorax
By expediting communication between radiologists and referring providers when suspicious findings are identified, the system has great potential to improve clinical outcomes in real-world scenarios, authors of a new study in JACR suggest.
Patients without PCPs struggle to access lung cancer screening, despite eligibility
It is estimated that up to one-third of the U.S. population does not have a primary care provider.
Rads are more accurate when they have access to patients' self-reported symptoms
This is especially true for lumbar MRIs, as these exams often show abnormalities without correlating symptoms, making it difficult to distinguish between incidental findings and the actual source of patients’ issues.

Standards Watch | User Beware: Virus Checkers on PACS Workstations

It was about a year ago that I did not receive a reply to an e-mail for several days from a PAC system administrator at a major institution in Houston. After three days, I called her and asked whether there might be a problem - finding out that the e-mail system had been down for three days, hopefully to be back up in another day or so.

March 1, 2004

Offsite Storage: Out of Site, Not Out of Mind

Effectively managing images cradle to grave is all about good planning. See why some facilities see offsite storage as the best plan.

March 1, 2004

RIS: More Than Managing Information

Improving patient care in today's busy and overloaded imaging environment means automating and continually refining digital workflow - an impossible endeavor without an efficient radiology information system.

March 1, 2004

Enterprise PACS in a New Enterprise

Sky Ridge Medical Center opened in August 2003 with a significant investment in cutting-edge technology and a commitment to a filmless environment.

February 1, 2004

Leveling the Field: Comparing Storage Media Costs

A range of more affordable storage choices is allowing storage area network access for mid-range and small-scale healthcare facilities.

February 1, 2004

Web-based PACS Packs Interest

The PACS of today is definitely a more mature sibling of the PACS of a decade ago.

January 1, 2004

Standards Watch | PACS Through the Years

PACS through the years definitely has been a "lessons learned" experience. This article describes some of the history, and evolution of these systems as well as early experiences.

January 1, 2004

Workstations: At your fingertips

Managing the flow of images from numerous modality scanners to specific workstations for post-processing is one of the critical elements in maintaining and boosting radiology department productivity.

January 1, 2004

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Cardiovascular Business

Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business

FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

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.

Enterprise Imaging

Less than half of incidental interstitial lung abnormalities on CT exams are reported

Are providers too trusting of AI's advice?

Pairing an alert system with CAD software halves time-to-treatment for pneumothorax

Patients without PCPs struggle to access lung cancer screening, despite eligibility

Rads are more accurate when they have access to patients' self-reported symptoms

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