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.

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Leading children’s hospital shares its recipe for an enterprise imaging strategy

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

Over the last few years, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s enterprise imaging strategy has been simmering. After starting with radiology and cardiology, the hospital is preparing to add images from across all ‘ologies and fully bring its enterprise archive to a boil.

Core Sound Imaging, Inc is pleased to introduce Studycast® CoreShare

The new CoreShare feature allows cardiologists, vascular specialists, obstetricians, sonographers, and physicians to share echocardiograms, arterial images, ultrasounds, and more with a colleague across the country in seconds. They can easily email a secure link of the study images directly to their patients as well.

Kanteron Systems Selects Dicom Systems Unifier as UniversalEnterprise Imaging Adapter

Campbell, CA, March 16, 2016 – Dicom Systems, Inc., an Enterprise Imaging interoperability expert, announced today its partnership with Kanteron Systems, Inc. (USA, Spain, and UK). This partnership will deliver more comprehensive, real-time patient information to specialists, enabling improved correlation of clinical data and medical imaging within one, consolidated visual context. 

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Connecticut-Based Healthcare System Selects Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform for Enterprise Imaging

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 15 — Lawrence + Memorial Healthcare (New London, Conn.) signed a contract with Carestream Health to implement its Vue for Clinical Collaboration Platform to deliver next-generation enterprise image management. 

Insignia PACS goes live at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Insignia Medical Systems, the pioneering UK based Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) provider, has successfully installed and set live their first class integrated PACS and Reporting Solution at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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Dose-management software improves performance of CT techs

Dose-management software does the job when the job is monitoring CT technologists in real time to sharpen their attentiveness to radiation exposure.

FDA clears Elekta's iViewDose dosimetry software

Elekta, a Stockholm-based clinical solutions company, announced today that its iViewDose software has received 501(k) clearance from the FDA.

New NEC monitor receives FDA clearance

NEC Display Solutions of America announced today that its MultiSync MD211G5 medical-grade monitor has received FDA clearance for use in tomosynthesis and full field digital mammography (FFDM).

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.