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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RSNA21: Referring providers receive radiology reports 35 minutes faster under structured framework

Turnaround time improvements are likely due to the fewer number of edits required from the initial draft to finalized report.

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ACR offers info-blocking update, including dealing with surprise radiology reports

New details also include eight exceptions to info-blocking rules, including issues related to privacy, security and charging fees for services that enhance interoperability.

5 Years into the Cloud, John Muir Health Is Just Getting Started

Sponsored by Sectra

One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500 MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as 3 GB of real estate on a finite-volume storage server.

Radiologists spend 44% less time generating prostate cancer screening reports with new approach

Patients also stand to benefit from more streamlined, consistent approaches to reporting, experts charged recently.

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Radiology department automates process for spotting reports with actionable findings

The novel natural language processing technique can pinpoint overlooked details and avoid costly delays to patient care.

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Reader-friendly myocardial perfusion imaging reports connect patients with their own healthcare

Focus groups requested 5 broad changes to reporting habits, which helped bolster readability, comprehension and knowledge of their future heart risks.

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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.

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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.

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GE HealthCare launches new cardiac CT scanner with advanced AI capabilities

GE HealthCare designed the new-look Revolution Vibe CT scanner to help hospitals and health systems embrace CCTA and improve overall efficiency.

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Bracco updates HeartSee coronary flow capacity software with new diagnostic features

Clinicians have been using HeartSee to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease since the technology first debuted back in 2018. These latest updates, set to roll out to existing users, are designed to improve diagnostic performance and user access.

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Key trends in diagnostic heart testing: CT on the rise as some traditional techniques fall out of favor

The cardiac technologies clinicians use for CVD evaluations have changed significantly in recent years, according to a new analysis of CMS data. While some modalities are on the rise, others are being utilized much less than ever before.