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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Practical Informatics for the Practicing Radiologist: Part One

Nov. 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | S501ABC | Presented in conjunction with the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, this session provides a practical and easy-to-understand overview of the fundamentals of imaging informatics. Participants will learn the basics of speech recognition, structured reporting and business analytics.

Informatics and Meaningful Use—2012 Update (Informatics in Practice)

Nov. 25, 2:00-3:30 p.m. | E261 | This session, which is presented in association with the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, looks at Meaningful Use from a number of different angles. From large academic medical centers to application in the community, this session will present the ramification of Meaningful Use for radiologists.

IHE: Getting Images From the Department to The Enterprise to The Cloud

Nov. 25, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | S501ABC | This session gives the big picture on image sharing. It delves into the rationale behind sharing, different use cases for exchanging images and also touches on the RSNA Image Share program.

Agfa, TRIBVN partner to integrate pathology + radiology images

Agfa HealthCare has signed a collaboration agreement with TRIBVN for the global distribution of a system integrating digital pathology and radiology images.

Erie Country Medical Center taps Merge for enterprise image sharing

Erie Country Medical Center has picked Merge Healthcare’s iConnect Enterprise Archive and iConnect Access to provide web-based access to images and information.

FDA clears Vital Images universal viewer

Vital Images, part of the Toshiba Medical Systems Group, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for 3D viewing through its universal viewer, VitreaView. The company simultaneously released its tablet viewing capabilities for VitreaView.

Tenn. health system pens deals with Carestream

Erlanger Health System has purchased Carestream Health’s Vue RIS and DRX imaging systems and upgraded its Vue PACS.

Chicago teleradiology firm installs eRad platform

Metis|MD has gone live on the uniRAD teleradiology workflow platform from eRAD, a division of RadNet.

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