ONRAD, Inc., one of the nation’s largest radiology groups, implemented Carestream’s Vue PACS to handle reading and reporting of nearly 1 million imaging studies a year. ONRAD has almost 100 radiologists and provides services to 275 healthcare providers in 35 states.

Digisonics (Booth #523), a leading integrator/provider of Enterprise PACS and Structured Reporting Systems, will showcase its latest offerings to improve workflow efficiency at this year’s Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

A new system designed to extract detailed imaging observations from narrative text reports using natural language processing (NLP) and integrate them with clinical decision support systems (DSS) has been proven effect using unstructured mammography reporting, according to results of a study published in the April issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.

Implementing structured reporting templates for standard chest CT exams does not result in an increase in false-negatives and can improve the accuracy of reporting for coronary calcification and aid in early detection of coronary heart disease, according to study results published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

If hospitals and integrated delivery networks are to leverage the potential of big data to significantly improve the health status of populations across the U.S., they are going to need a new kind of physician leader to light the way.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced an aggressive timeline for the transition from volume- to value-based payment earlier this year, it was the equivalent of reading healthcare the riot act: The status quo in healthcare is now the enemy.

Jan Oldenburg, senior manager in Ernst and Young’s healthcare practice, had come to the annual meeting of the Health Information and Management Systems Society in Orlando, Fla., to deliver a lecture on “What Do Consumers Really Want from Personal Health IT?”

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to Visage Imaging’s Visage Ease Pro, a native iOS application that allows for mobile diagnostic interpretation of most modalities, excluding mammography.