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 systems, artificial 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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Imaging at HIMSS.16: Session Previews

Sponsored by Intelerad

Every year, the HIMSS annual meeting tackles the biggest issues in healthcare informatics, and managing medical images is always a big topic of discussion. This year’s focus is on enterprise imaging and the inherent challenges with managing different types of images from the various specialties around a hospital or system.

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Tools for enterprise imaging success

Managing medical images has always been a Herculean undertaking, even when the image types were contained to the “traditional” modalities of radiology. Now that an avalanche of different image types are coming down from all over the enterprise, will providers be snowed under?

FDA clearance announced for FUJIFILM Synapse 5 PACS

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., announced today that its Synapse 5 PACS technology has received FDA 510 (k) clearance for sale and distribution in the U.S.

HIMSS reports on 2016’s ‘growth technologies’

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics has published a report on some of the technologies shaping hospitals’ purchase plans in 2016.

Vital Images launches new ‘VNA on demand’ platform

Vital Images announced today the launch of VNA on demand, a “next generation vendor neutral platform” which will allow customers to store only desired images and control the process of image storage more efficiently, the company said in a press release.

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Study shows newest version of PI-RADS improves cancer diagnosis

The second version of the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) is effective at preoperatively predicting clinically significant prostate cancers, according to results of a Korean study published online in the journal Radiology.

New app allows providers to calculate contrast agent doses

GadCalc, a new iOS app for smartphones and tablets, helps healthcare providers track contrast agent doses. The University of Wisconsin-Madison radiology department first made its gadolinium dose calculator available to the public in 2014, and it was such a hit that the technology has now been developed into GadCalc. 

vRAD selects Double Black Imaging LED displays

vRad, a leading teleradiology service and telemedicine company with over 350 radiologists, has selected Double Black Imaging as their display provider.  Double Black Imaging develops auto-calibrating LED systems for PACS and Mammography along with their X-CAL Calibration Software suite which is written in Westminster, CO.

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