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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Cloud-based imaging spinoff inHeart raises $4.2M for AI-based heart arrhythmia solution

It’s cloud software turns preoperative medical images into a 3D “digital twin” of the patient’s heart enabling providers to plan procedures and navigate instruments during surgery.

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COVID-19 prep: Remote reading program leads to 140% boost in reporting productivity

St. Mary’s Hospital in London launched its pilot in 2019 and early success helped establish remote reading capabilities for nearly all of its rad consultants by the beginning of the lockdown.

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Radiologists must become 'data wranglers' for a front seat in healthcare's future

The specialty needs to contribute more to the electronic health record to keep pace with data-driven care delivery, one informatics expert said during SIIM's virtual meeting.

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Mayo Clinic launches Sectra’s digital pathology solution across its health systems

After it’s tested and properly configured during the initial rollout phase, Mayo will gradually introduce the solution across all of its departments in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona.

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New ACR registry selected as imaging repository for ongoing study into COVID-19 treatments

ACR’s Center for Research and Innovation will gather and house all diagnostic scans for the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study, or VIRUS, the groups announced Tuesday.

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ACR launches COVID-19 imaging registry to help tackle the pandemic

Participating institutions will contribute demographic information, signs and symptoms data, imaging exams, lab tests and patient outcomes.

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Emergency docs heavily utilize secondary outside imaging reads, paying ‘dividends’ for patients

About 80% of physicians requested an extra set of eyes from an outside facility either “always” or “most of the time,” and more than 90% said such consultations improved care.

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Access to imaging exams via online portals saves money for patients, hospitals

If everyone would have logged in and downloaded their exams over the two-year study period, both users and the institutions could have saved a good chunk of change, according to new research.

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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.