What should radiology be expending, in manpower as well as money, to help make medical imaging accessible to and from every clinical department? And what’s in enterprise imaging for radiology, anyway?

Healthcare is continually evolving toward a more collaborative, patient-centered experience which requires digital scans and electronic health records be available quickly.

According to a recent article from Clinical Innovation and Technology, researchers from New York's Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed machine learning technology capable of interpreting radiologist reports with an accuracy rate of 91 percent. 

During the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, GE Healthcare and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) teamed up on a new diagnostic tool that used imaging to provide individualized care for competing athletes.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2018—Change Healthcare today announced that it has been awarded a new Digital Imaging Network-PACS (DIN-PACS) IV contract by the United States Defense Logistics Agency. The DIN-PACS IV contract is a multiyear, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a combined five-year base period and one five-year option period.

While healthcare learns how to improve its response to cybersecurity threats, the number and ferocity of incidents continue to increase. Health Imaging spoke with Zack Hornberger, recently tabbed as director of cybersecurity and imaging informatics for Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), to discuss what medical imaging professionals can do to best prepare for handling cybersecurity breaches.

Cybersecurity researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba, Israel, warn that medical imaging devices are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-threats and are in need of ongoing security updates, according to a recent article by The Times of Israel.

What’s more impressive than highly sophisticated imaging techniques creating digital pictures of the inner body? Allowing those medical images to be displayed directly on a patient’s body as they move.