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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MRI contrast injector among devices attacked by WannaCry in U.S.

Medical devices hit in the U.S. by the WannaCry ransomware attacks included a Bayer-Medrad MRI contrast-agent injector, according to a Forbes reporter who has obtained from an unnamed source a screen capture of the attack in progress.

Ultrasound making waves beyond medicine

What do acoustic holograms, tractor beams, glasses for the totally blind and Martian scanners all have in common? 

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New pediatric heart MR faster, more adaptable to remote care

A newly proposed technique for contrast-enhanced 3D MR angiography is not substantially better on image quality than standard sequential 2D for planning the care of children with congenital heart disease. However, the 3D approach allows faster and offline planning, thereby reducing scan times significantly.

With money on the table, AI inches closer to aiding lung-cancer diagnosis

A contest with a $1 million kitty has brought out the best in research teams competing to develop algorithms for finding lung cancers in low-dose CT images. 

Sectra signs contract with US cancer center for enterprise imaging

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that it has signed a multi-year contract with City of Hope to install the Sectra Enterprise Image Management suite of products for display, transmission, and storage of all images throughout the healthcare system.

Open System Imaging Expands Digisonics OB/GYN Reporting Solution for Improved Workflow Efficiency

HOUSTON (April 25, 2017) – Open System Imaging in Chico, Calif., has selected Digisonics over the competition with help from their customers. 

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Rounding radiology residents improve patient care, referrer communication—and their specialty’s status

Members of a large academic radiology department have shown the value that resident-driven imaging rounds can add to patient care in a multidisciplinary care-delivery model. In the process, they’ve demonstrated a way the specialty can spotlight its contributions in the era of bundled payments and outcomes-oriented incentives. 

Cancer guidelines after active treatment have low specificity, consistency

In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis, a group of researchers examined the specificity and consistency of recommendations for cancer surveillance after effective treatment across guidelines.

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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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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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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.