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 unveil Info-RADS to help patients comprehend their imaging findings

The Information Reporting and Data Systems tool explains if findings are not concerning or if they may require following up with a doctor, experts explained in JACR.

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ACR, Penn Medicine announce partnership to bring advanced analytics into everyday radiology practice

The pair has already developed the Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit, a software platform that analyzes brain, breast and lung cancer images.

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Former Mayo Clinic worker wrongly accessed 1,600 patient records, including medical images

The Rochester, Minnesota, system is notifying patients who received care at its Florida and Arizona locations.

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Top-Down Decision Stretches Enterprise Imaging across Texas University Health System

Sponsored by AGFA HealthCare

Last year the institutional leadership at Texas’s University Health System, which contracts with the UT Health San Antonio physician network, made the decision to move all inpatient imaging off the radiology department’s PACS and onto a new enterprise imaging (EI) platform. Their goal was internal consolidation. 

5 tips for safeguarding PACS and imaging devices against cyberattacks

Continually updating software and using virus scanners should be among the top priorities for IT departments, experts explained in Academic Radiology.

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Creating a better radiology report: 8 expert recommendations

Radiologists from the U.S., England and Australia shared their advice for improving these documents in RadioGraphics.

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Delay likely as November start date for new interoperability rules ‘nearly infeasible,’ ACR says

In April, the federal government pushed back enforcement of the new rules due to flexibility concerns for healthcare systems battling COVID-19.

Even novice radiologists benefit from RSNA's new COVID-19 reporting guidance

Attendings and trainees showed strong agreement when using the framework, experts explained in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

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