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.

RSNA: Barco to highlight backlight display technology

Barco (Booth #8329) is showing its LED backlight technology, which has been integrated into Coronis Fusion 6MP DL display and Mammo Tomosynthesis 5MP display, at RSNA 2012 in Chicago, Nov. 25-30.

PACS: Dead, Dying or Re-born?

Three thought leaders weigh in. Is PACS is on the edge of obsolescence, or is a new and improved model is about to emerge?

itMD joins Pacsgear to participate in Open Image Exchange

Pacsgear has reached an agreement with itMD, a medical image sharing company, in which itMD will participate in the Open Image Exchange and integrate with Pacsgear using the cross-enterprise document sharing profile

Ga. ortho practice taps Merge for image archiving

Resurgens Orthopaedics in Georgia has selected Merge Honeycomb to archive patient images and provide a disaster recovery system.

Intelerad launches cloud-based disaster recovery

Intelerad Medical Systems has released Nuage Disaster Recovery Services, which provides hosted data archiving and disaster recovery for hospitals and ambulatory imaging providers.

Agfa teams with Canadian hospitals for pathology research

Agfa HealthCare has reached an agreement with the pathology department of the Enfant-Jésus and Saint-Sacrement Hospitals in Quebec City, Quebec for a three-year collaboration to conduct research to integrate digital pathology into the diagnostic workflow.

eRad adds Hawaiian company to distribution network

Hawai’i Pacific X-Ray has been named as the distributor in Hawai’i and the Pacific Basin area for eRAD’s line of radiology workflow products.

Intelerad launches enterprise diagnostics system

Intelerad Medical Systems has launched Flow by Intelerad.

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.