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.

Radiologists use structured CT reports to create database of metastatic cancer patterns

Natural language processing was up to 99% accurate at spotting cancer spread across 13 different organs.

August 3, 2021

US cybersecurity agency reports critical vulnerabilities in Philips' Vue PACS

The Department of Homeland Security warned the problems can be remotely exploited through relatively low complexity attacks.

July 9, 2021

Radiologists utilize novel CAD-RADS in 95% of coronary CTA reports

Massachusetts General Hospital doctors analyzed Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System usage in their high-volume cardiac CT services center for the study.

July 7, 2021
lung cancer

Language processing translates free-text radiology reports for better lung cancer staging

Enhancing the reporting and staging process may speed up workflows and greatly improve imaging care, researchers explained recently.

June 14, 2021
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‘New frontier’: Hybrid tool eliminates time, cost of extracting clinical data from screening reports

The algorithm accurately gathers clinical information from colonoscopy screening and pathology documents.

June 10, 2021
Reporting

Structured CT reports improve cancer staging, communication between radiologists and surgeons

Templates helped imaging providers relay key features of gastric cancer and were preferred over free-text reporting.

June 10, 2021
Money Eye

Health giant says the time for CDs is gone—$1M in savings underscores why

Burning studies and reports onto physical discs cost Yale New Haven Health nearly $550,000 in 2019 alone, one expert explained during the SIIM Annual Meeting.

May 26, 2021

Radiologists armed with millions of reports launching new study to pin down incidental findings

University of Washington Medicine researchers will develop a database of records outlining follow-up costs, diagnoses and health outcomes associated with various incidentalomas.

May 11, 2021

Around the web

"Gen AI can help tackle repetitive tasks and provide insights into massive datasets, saving valuable time," Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said Tuesday. 

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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