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.

If incidental findings pass these 4 criteria, consider leaving off rad report

When radiologists discover harmless incidental findings, they are left with the complex, at times difficult choice of either including it in the radiology report or not mentioning it at all. In an original article published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues examined how they believe radiologists should react when facing such a dilemma.

What's in a word? Avoiding confusion on radiology reports

Much has been made recently about the language of radiology reporting, including discussion surrounding the inclusion or exclusion of certain words and phrases in final reports. But being aware of double meanings associated with commonly used terms—such as the word “stable”— is also critical when creating reports.

Imagix Using Intelerad Solutions to Connect to Quebec Health Record

Montreal, Canada – April 18, 2016 – Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in distributed medical imaging solutions, today announced that Imagix Medical Imaging, which is headquartered in Brossard, Quebec is deploying IntelePACS across their thirteen radiology clinics. Imagix will also use Intelerad solutions to connect to the Quebec Health Record (QHR), which is the province’s central repository of patient information.

Insignia goes from strength to strength

Insignia Medical Systems, the pioneering UK based Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) provider, has finished their first quarter on a high with the start of a 100TB migration for Oxford University Hospitals (OUH).

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Carestream Joins Intel® Storage Builders Program; Showcases Leadership in Cloud Technology

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 12 – Driven by explosive growth in medical imaging and other data, healthcare providers are eager to explore the advantages offered by moving image data storage and management to the cloud. As a leading supplier of secure cloud services for hospitals and other healthcare facilities, Carestream Health is the only healthcare company involved in the Intel® Storage Builders program and currently manages more than 15 billion images in 13 public and private cloud data centers across the globe.

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The key to a successful standardized structured reporting program? Get radiologists onboard

It is often people—not technology—that hinder the adoption and utilization of structured reporting standards in radiology departments. But having a successful standardized structured reporting program isn't impossible, according to an article published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

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Where’s the integration?

A recent study of PACS-EHR integration—or the lack thereof—hit a nerve. In a survey of the members of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments, just 47 percent of respondents reported that their PACS had been integrated with the EMR.

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HIMSS-SIIM Meetup: Enterprise imaging on an inter-organizational roll

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Workgroup already had a head of steam to build on when its leaders, members and potential new participants held a “meetup” on March 2 at the airy, sunlit HIMSS Spot during HIMSS16 in Las Vegas.

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The new technology shows early potential to make a significant impact on imaging workflows and patient care. 

Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.