Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

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Doctor reports ‘pattern’ of misread mammograms at embattled breast imaging center

Radiologist and Allison Breast Center owner Michael Bigg is being sued by six women over wrongly interpreted scans. 

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Utilizing x-rays, radiology reports to forecast heart failure in the emergency department

MIT’s AI lab, Philips, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are working to implement the system in the Boston institution’s emergency department this fall.

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Radiologists reveal ‘RADCAT’ system to categorize imaging reports, convey important findings

The tool successfully communicated nearly 100% of nonurgent follow-up recommendations at one Rhode Island health system.

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‘Cause for concern’: Unread second opinion reports cost one radiology department tens of thousands

Additional interpretations often improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care, but not when they fall by the wayside, authors explained in AJR.

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Radiologists must become 'data wranglers' for a front seat in healthcare's future

The specialty needs to contribute more to the electronic health record to keep pace with data-driven care delivery, one informatics expert said during SIIM's virtual meeting.

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Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

How much structure do clinicians want in their musculoskeletal MRI reports?

Orthopedic providers judged three different knee MRI report templates based on readability, usefulness and quality. The results were published in Academic Radiology.

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Clinicians follow musculoskeletal MRI reports less often when further imaging is recommended

More can be done to change this trend, argued authors of a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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