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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Less than 40% of providers adhere to radiologists’ follow-up recommendations for incidental findings

Standardized reporting and communication could boost that figure much higher, researchers suggested in JACR.

Vague language plagues radiology reporting, with chest and inpatient imaging the top offenders

More than 600,000 reports covering a five-year period showed widespread differences among individuals and subspecialities in how they convey uncertain findings.

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Pilot program reveals ‘integral’ role radiologists play in advising primary care providers

Easy access to expert opinions led to patient management changes in more than half of cases and avoided a number of unnecessary imaging exams.

Is remote reading here to stay? 4 leaders discuss radiology’s virtual future

COVID-19 is causing a work-from-home revolution, but imaging experts say maintaining appropriate in-house staff is crucial going forward.

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Top radiology groups team up for ‘massive’ COVID-19 imaging database

The ACR, RSNA and AAPM are all participating in the project, with funding coming from an agreement between the National Institutes of Health and University of Chicago, the groups announced recently.

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Intelerad acquires private cloud provider Radius

The move builds upon the Montreal tech company’s cloud-based imaging strategy and allows Intelerad to provide a flexible approach to managed services and a hybrid cloud solution to providers.

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ACR will coordinate imaging for upcoming COVID study

The multicenter COVID-19 Observational Study, or CORAL, will take an epidemiological approach to investigating the novel virus, the ACR announced Monday.

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Automated CO-RADS algorithm spots COVID-19 patients, may relieve overworked radiologists

Experts from the Netherlands first introduced their COVID-19 Reporting and Data System back in April.

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