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.

On Display: Monitors Show Their True Colors

Film on a lightbox or a digital image on a monitor - while the purpose is the same, the technology behind each is oh so different. The bottom line remains that the radiologist wants to know that the images - analog or digital - are of optimal diagnostic q

December 1, 2003

Integrated RIS-PACS: Is it the Right Choice?

While PACS enables radical changes in how an imaging center or radiology department manages its business, the intelligence features of the radiology information system (RIS) manage department workflow.

December 1, 2003

More Than Remote Success

The value of PACS escalates as radiologists expand their volume of work and other providers seek subspecialty expertise through teleradiology.

December 1, 2003

Accessing Patient Information Via PACS

Doctors at California's San Antonio Community Hospital make life-and-death decisions daily. Read a first-hand account of how the healthcare facility keeps its PACS operating virtually flawlessly.

November 1, 2003

Standards Watch | DICOM Turns 20: A Retrospective and a Look Forward

A large group of DICOM geeks, gurus and other interested parties gathered in September in Baltimore to celebrate the DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) 20-year anniversary.

November 1, 2003

A Big Byte: PACS Widen Image Storage Boundaries

Image storage has become the primary concern and key component of PACS, in large part because as much as 60 percent of all hospital storage is used by and originates with the system.

November 1, 2003

Film Digitizers

Film digitizers are helping radiology departments bridge the technology gap between analog film and the digital imaging environment.

October 1, 2003

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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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