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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Radiologists, referrers prefer switch to subspecialized reporting system over modality-based scheme

Imaging team members said productivity, confidence and turnaround times all improved under a centralized reporting system.

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What radiology providers can do to prepare for the new ‘AI data paradigm’

Data streams are becoming an increasingly important part of the specialty's value to healthcare, and practices will need new mechanisms to utilize this information.

New ACR report identifies 3 pressing concerns when sharing patient imaging data

Organizations must consider everything from de-identifying image data and rad report info, and establishing proper frameworks.

5 Years into the Cloud, John Muir Health Is Just Getting Started

Sponsored by Sectra

One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500 MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as 3 GB of real estate on a finite-volume storage server.

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Imaging consortium releases first-of-its-kind database to help fight lung disease

Radiologists, pulmonologists and AI experts are overseeing the Open Source Imaging Consortium Data Repository, with backing from groups such as Siemens Healthineers.

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Ditching paper for e-worklist translates to ‘substantially’ shorter wait times for breast imaging patients

Brigham and Women's recently started using an electronic health record-embedded tool, resulting in many improvements for preoperative breast localization procedures.

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HHS announces webinar to help radiologists, other clinicians maneuver info-blocking rules

Presenters will highlight basic requirements and exceptions of the rules but are unlikely to discuss enforcement topics that have yet to be finalized.

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ACR TI-RADS recommends 25%-50% fewer biopsies than other commonly used thyroid systems

The results are particularly noteworthy given patients were chosen at random, rather than assessing recommendations for those with high-risk nodules.

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