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.

Vital Images, Inc. tackles challenges in today’s enterprise imaging systems and operations

Vital Images, Inc., is pleased to announce the release of VioSuite Image Management and Vitality Solutions Business Intelligence. Joining the company’s flagship products, VitreaAdvanced® and VitreaView®, these new product families give healthcare administrators a robust set of tools to improve system-wide image access and image data analytics. 

FUJIFILM continues to innovate healthcare IT with Synapse VNA at HIMSS15

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with Synapse® VNA by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Healthcare Informatics Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibit from April 13 -16 in Chicago, IL. 

Viztek brings its IT-enabled Exa PACS platform to HIMSS 2015

Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, will unveil its latest upgrades to its Exa PACS, including new innovations to leverage health system IT investments, this week during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS 2015) annual meeting in Chicago. 

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Structured templates paired with CAD improves prostate MRI reporting

Implementation of structured reporting templates and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools can significantly elevate the quality of reporting for multiparametric MRI (mp-MRI), according to study results published online April 8 in Academic Radiology.

McKesson introduces Conserus™ to help optimize imaging workflows and clinical effectiveness

McKesson announces Conserus™, a suite of flexible, vendor-neutral solutions for healthcare IT enterprise and diagnostic imaging. The Conserus suite includes flexible quality and communication Workflows, Enterprise Worklists driven by clinical and business logic, an Enterprise Image Repository and a Clinical Data Exchange. 

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FDA clears monitor from NEC Display Solutions

NEC Display Solutions of America announced that its MultiSync MD322C8 LCD display for radiology has received 510(K) market clearance from the FDA.

DICOM Grid debuts "medical selfie" to share images using an iPhone

DICOM Grid today announced the release of "medical selfie", a new feature available through its mobile optimized medical image management platform. Using the feature, patients and care providers can upload medical pictures taken on an iOs device and securely share them with physicians.

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CDS improves the appropriateness of advanced inpatient imaging

The addition of point-of-care clinical decision support (CDS) software can increase the overall appropriateness of advanced imaging tests ordered by physicians, according to study results published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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.