Quality Health Network® (QHN), the Health Information Exchange (HIE) providing secure exchange of electronic health information for clinical quality improvement purposes in western Colorado, and eHealth Technologies™ the leading provider of referral solutions incorporating image exchange solutions, announced today they have successfully enabled Aspen Valley Hospital (AVH) to share diagnostic quality medical images with healthcare providers across western Colorado.

If HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) gets its latest clinical decision support (CDS) initiative up and funded, all sorts of stakeholders will be regularly tapping into patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR)—and a new bite of alphabet soup will be everyday language for healthcare providers.

Lexmark has announced that it received 510(k) Class II clearance from the FDA for the NilRead enterprise viewer. Providers in the U.S. are now able to use the web-based, zero-footprint viewer to review and interpret a variety of imaging studies, including mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis.

The “CD factory” had to go. That was the consensus reached four years ago by all parties involved in the handling of diagnostic images at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), the regional healthcare hub in Western New York anchored by 800-bed Strong Memorial Hospital.

A recent profile in the Triangle Business Journal described Garner, N.C.-based Viztek as being in “growth mode” following FDA approval of its Exa PACS earlier this year.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Radiology Information Systems Market by Type, by Deployment Mode, by End User, by Component - Forecast to 2019" report to their offering.

Radiology has improved efficiency in recent years by borrowing ideas from other industries, and Imaging Advantage, a teleradiology group, is finding success by tapping into the business models of Amazon or Uber.

A certain number of radiology follow-up procedures could be avoided by conducting a comprehensive comparison with patients’ previous imaging studies, meaning PACS systems should be optimized to streamline review of priors for radiologists, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.