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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NIH researchers develop CT needle-guidance app for smartphones

Radiology researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created an app that uses a smartphone’s camera and gyroscope to optimize needle-insertion angle for planning and performing percutaneous CT-guided biopsies and ablations.

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Tongue ultrasound shown effective for directing treatment of sleep apnea

Sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be evaluated with ultrasound images of the tongue captured as the patient, awake, performs a simple breathing exercise.

New MRI contrasting agent detects small, aggressive cancers

A new study published in Nature Communications highlights a newly developed contrasting agent for MRI that detects breast cancer in its earliest stages and can distinguish between aggressive and non-aggressive cancers.

Study shows low malignancy rate for clustered microcysts in breast

A new study in the American Journal of Roentgenology aimed to study the malignancy rate of lesions in the breast, identified as clustered microcysts, a common find on breast ultrasound.

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X-ray reads of long-dead Londoners relevant to healthcare today

Radiology has much to offer in establishing general levels of health or illness in populations of the past, and these insights can meaningfully inform modern-day medicine, according to researchers who examined the skeletons of more than 200 adults laid to rest during the 1700s and 1800s in the crypt of St. Bride’s Church in London.

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Reduced breast compression during DBT produces same results as standard compression

A new study in the American Journal of Roentgenology found that a reduction in breast compression during digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) will reduce pain for the patient and maintaining the integrity of the breast thickness and tissue coverage, while ensuring no clinically significant change in image quality.

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AI detects Alzheimer’s-related brain changes 10 years before symptoms appear

A team of researchers have developed an algorithm that can spot structural changes in the brain related to Alzheimer’s on an MRI up to 10 years before symptoms appear.

MRI plays an important role in pregnancy-associated breast cancers

A recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology states that breast MRI may play an important role in the management of pregnancy-associated breast cancers (PABC).

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Positron partners with Upbeat Cardiology Solutions to improve cardiac PET/CT access

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

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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.

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.