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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As COVID-19 approached one large health system it quickly installed at-home PACS workstations—here’s how

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System's Department of Radiology outfitted many of its rads with remote reading in order to promote social distancing, sharing their experience in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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One of the country’s top health information exchanges adds image-sharing capabilities

The more than 19,000 users of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization can now quickly share images, regardless of provider or electronic health record.

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Teleradiology adoption spiked during COVID-19 and is likely to continue

A small survey found a majority of rad practices leveraged internal resources to complete outside exam interpretations and plan to continue to do so after the pandemic.

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Patient-centered care may require radiologists embrace structured, easy-to-read reporting

Volunteers of an online survey prefer structured chest radiograph reports with less jargony language, and radiologists should take note, experts said in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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5 guidelines for navigating COVID-19 disruptions in IR education

Three imaging experts have fleshed out the “need-to-knows” of COVID-19’s impact on teachers and trainees in their specialty, interventional radiology.  

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Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

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Feds delay enforcement of new interoperability rules to ease burden on providers

“In a pandemic of this magnitude, flexibility is paramount for a healthcare system under siege by COVID-19,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said. 

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1-stop shopping for COVID-19 resources from RSNA

The Radiological Society of North America has rounded up and gathered together its online COVID-19 resources, enabling easy engagement with all things imaging, coronavirus and RSNA.

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