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 take to Facebook for subspecialized info sharing

Many radiologists use Twitter and LinkedIn for staying up on matters related to their work. A study published online Nov. 12 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology shows they’d do well to tap, for the same purposes, the social-media platform that’s commonly thought of as a purely personal online space.

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RSNA 2017: Carestream shows new mobile X-ray system with carbon nanotube technology

Carestream's new DRX-Revolution nano mobile X-ray system can help enhance bedside imaging in critical care and inpatient areas.        

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Combined PET/MRI detects kidney transplant infections

A group of German researchers has developed a nuclear medicine test that can detect infections in kidney transplant tissue, according to a study published in Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 

Dollar-per-scan AI vendor taps Google for reach

The AI startup that’s offering radiology algorithms at $1 per scan is looking to Google Cloud to help deliver the service.

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Tweeting journal articles merely drives Twitter-driven traffic

Members of the online radiology community, take note: Personally tweeting links to articles posted ahead of print in online medical journals doesn’t increase overall pageviews of these articles. It just increases the number of people who find their way to any given “article in press” via Twitter.

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AI accurately tells children’s age from hand x-rays

Stanford researchers have developed a deep-learning neural network model that can determine the bone age of children from a hand radiograph about as accurately as both an expert radiologist and an existing software package that uses a feature-extraction approach and has been cleared for clinical in use in Europe.

Intelerad announces expansion of cloud-based imaging solution suite

Intelerad Medical Systems, based in Montreal, Canada, has announced today the expansion of its cloud-based solution suite that now offers a complete cloud-based imaging platform to the medical imaging community, according to an Intelerad press release.  

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Radiology AI vendor to sell use of its algorithms for $1 per scan

A medical AI startup is offering its image-interpretation algorithms for a flat $1 per read.

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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.