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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A Telemammography Dynamo Rides New PACS from the Deep South to Boundless Frontiers

Sponsored by Sectra

Eight years ago, Women’s Imaging Associates in Birmingham, Ala., was a small, well-respected mammography practice serving six OB/GYN offices in its area. Today, having embraced a 100% telemedicine model, its three fulltime breast specialists read images for 22 client facilities scattered around the U.S.—not only OB offices but also outpatient imaging centers and hospitals large and small. 

Accuray Receives 510(k) Clearance for iDMS Data Management System Upgrade for the TomoTherapy System

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated ARAY announced today it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its iDMS™ Data Management System, enabling its use with the Company's TomoTherapy® platform. It's designed to integrate with a wide range of technologies, including the Radixact™, TomoTherapy® and CyberKnife® Systems, Accuray Precision™ Treatment Planning System, and third-party treatment planning and oncology information systems.

In the Nutmeg State, a radiation-dose research project of ‘gigantic proportions’

The Connecticut Hospital Association says it has launched the nation’s first statewide data repository for tracking imaging-related radiation dosage. The repository has the potential to help benchmark appropriate doses from coast to coast, according to an article published June 27 in the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals & Health Networks.

Many radiotherapy cases require elevated diligence for imaging

When there’s a near-miss or safety incident (NMSI) with a patient undergoing radiation therapy, and the incident was related to the disease or treatment itself, the lapse often involves imaging. But it’s not imaging per se that raises any particular risk.

Whatever effect AI has on radiology, at least it will keep people talking

Xconomy.com has posted a worthwhile overview and look ahead at AI in healthcare. Its reporter would have been remiss had he not “gone there” with radiology.

A radiology mess roils Australia

Migrating patient imaging data from one computer system to another demands attention to detail, as a healthcare system in Australia is learning in the wake of a mislabeling error affecting several hundred thousand medical images.

Fujifilm’s PACS gets go-ahead from Defense Department

The U.S. Department of Defense has given Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS the green light to operate on the department’s networks, granting the company an Authority to Operate (ATO) and making it the first medical-imaging vendor to obtain such clearance since DoD switched to its Risk Management Framework (RMF), according to a press release sent by Fujifilm Medical Systems USA.

RamSoft Partners with KenQuest Medical

Toronto, Ontario—June 15, 2017—RamSoft is happy to announce their distribution partnership with KenQuest Medical.

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