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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ACR launches new digital radiography pilot to standardize radiation dose variation in chest exams

The American College of Radiology announced its dose index registry project recently in JACR.

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Fujifilm ventures deeper into digital pathology with new partnership

The project will pilot scanners across multiple healthcare organizations, along with AI, voice recognition, and other capabilities.

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FDA adjusts policy for radiology software—ditching PACS for MIMPS

The new descriptions apply to eight total classification regulations, including three that are specific to imaging.

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How one radiology department leveraged a semi-automated workflow to solve its ‘plain film problem’

After expanding its community presence, one Texas academic center was saddled with 22% more radiographs and providers too overworked to read them.

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PACS problems: Training, complexity, performance hindering average users’ daily workflow

“There is a clear appetite among health professionals for significant improvements to existing PACS,” researchers reported recently in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

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ACR launches national imaging registry with big plans to transform radiology research

This new informatics platform is the "future" of radiology research registries, American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors Chair Howard B. Fleishon, MD, said.

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8 tips to help radiologists communicate with patients and physicians

Many young imaging providers don't receive formal education to develop or enhance their communication skills, experts warned in a new special review.

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Microsoft to acquire radiology vendor Nuance in $19.7B deal

Officials with the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant said healthcare artificial intelligence was a key piece of the blockbuster acquisition. 

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Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

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.