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.

Agfa HealthCare expands enterprise imaging platform with release of ICIS View 3.0, further extending ICIS viewing and integration capabilities

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of enterprise clinical imaging and IT solutions, announces today the global release for sale of ICIS(TM) View 3.0*, the medical images and results viewer for the comprehensive ICIS enterprise imaging solution.

Shina Systems Announces New Commercial Release of 3Di PACS

Shina Systems (http://www.shina-sys.com), the leading developer of advanced clinical image management, visualization and analysis software, announced today the new commercial release of its 3Di PACS solution. Shina Systems’ 3Di is a unique platform which allows clinicians, healthcare providers and patients to view medical images everywhere and for any purpose – from diagnostic image interpretation to intuitive viewing of images in a personal health record.

PACSGEAR Releases ModLink

PACSGEAR, the leading provider of connectivity for PACS and electronic health records, today announced the general availability of ModLink™, a software solution that transfers structured report measurements directly into PowerScribe 360 | Reporting from Nuance. By auto-populating reports with structured report values, ModLink saves valuable radiologist dictation time and reduces potential human error.

Carestream’s Powerful Vendor-Neutral Archive Can Equip Clinicians with a Holistic View of Patient Data to Help Enhance Care

Carestream’s vendor-neutral archive that unites DICOM and non-DICOM data from disparate clinical systems will be showcased at the 2013 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting held June 6-9 in Grapevine (Dallas), Texas. In addition to helping equip clinicians with a comprehensive view of patient clinical information, CARESTREAM Vue for Vendor-Neutral Archive can simplify and consolidate storage resources to simultaneously help reduce costs and enhance workflow by eliminating departmental silos of clinical information.

iPad nearly matches LCD monitors for interpreting brain CT

Detection of cerebral infarction was similar using LCD monitors with either gamma 2.2 calibration or gray-scale standard display function calibration, and only slightly worse performance was measured with use of an iPad, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Prominent French university to improve anatomy teaching using virtual medical technology from Sectra

Medical imaging IT company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract to deliver its Sectra Visualization Table to Université Claude Bernard in Lyon.  This makes Claude Bernard the first French university to improve its medical education using Sectra’s visualization table.

Dilemma solved: How to boost adherence to Fleischner Society guidelines

Data suggest radiologists’ adherence to Fleischner Society guidelines for managing pulmonary nodules incidentally detected on CT hovers in the 34 to 57 percent range. However, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston touts 82.8 percent adherence, likely related to departmental strategies, according to an article published in the June issue of Journal of American College of Radiology.

RamSoft Partners with DatumMedics to Offer Enhanced Radiology Workflow Solutions in Finland, Sweden and Estonia

RamSoft, a leader in RIS, PACS, Teleradiology, Routing and Viewing solutions, announces its partnership with DatumMedics to distribute its complete line of fully-customizable radiology workflow solutions in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

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.