Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

IR team uses active dosimetry to reduce workers’ radiation exposure

Interventional radiology (IR) staffers at 189-bed Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts have shown that a commercially available real-time dosimetry system works well in reducing occupational radiation exposures.

Insignia team grows with appointment of Software Engineer

Insignia Medical Systems, the pioneering UK based Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) provider, is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Software Engineer, Brett Jones, who joins their growing development team.

MEDIAN Technologies and START expand relationship to three new centers in Grand Rapids, MI and Madrid, Spain

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France - SAN ANTONIO, US - June 28, 2016 - MEDIAN Technologies (ALMDT), a leading medical imaging software developer and service provider for image interpretation and management in oncology clinical trials, today announced the expansion of the company's relationship with START, a global Phase I oncology clinical trial organization, to include work in its Grand Rapids, MI and Madrid, Spain sites. 

Multimedia image tracking enables headache-free HIPAA compliance

SALT LAKE CITY—Novarad, a Utah-based healthcare technology company, will exhibit its latest advancements in universal viewing technology at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference and exhibition. This includes the ability to track and monitor the access and usage of not only DICOM, but clinical, non-DICOM multimedia. 

Mach7’s Enterprise Image Sharing Solution Selected for Image Share Validation Program Sponsored by RSNA

Burlington, VT – June 21, 2016 – Mach7 Technologies (ASX:M7T), a recognized leader in the enterprise imaging market will participate in the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) pilot program, Image Share Validation.

First fruits arrive from the HIMSS-SIIM enterprise-imaging workgroup

If enterprise imaging refers to visual clinical data acquired in nearly every corner of a healthcare institution’s realm—meaning not only radiology and cardiology but also pathology, ophthalmology, dermatology and maternal-fetal medicine, just to name a few—then enterprise-imaging governance refers to the people charged with putting all that data together to render it useful for clinical, financial and administrative end users. 

Thumbnail

Enterprise innovations at SIIM 2016

Sponsored by Intelerad

Change is in the air, can you feel it? Of course you can! You work in healthcare, change is what you do.

Thumbnail

Working together across the enterprise

Communication technology has long been credited with making the world “smaller.” But even today, some of the challenges with working across a healthcare enterprise seem quite large.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.