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.

Dollar-per-scan AI vendor taps Google for reach

The AI startup that’s offering radiology algorithms at $1 per scan is looking to Google Cloud to help deliver the service.

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Tweeting journal articles merely drives Twitter-driven traffic

Members of the online radiology community, take note: Personally tweeting links to articles posted ahead of print in online medical journals doesn’t increase overall pageviews of these articles. It just increases the number of people who find their way to any given “article in press” via Twitter.

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AI accurately tells children’s age from hand x-rays

Stanford researchers have developed a deep-learning neural network model that can determine the bone age of children from a hand radiograph about as accurately as both an expert radiologist and an existing software package that uses a feature-extraction approach and has been cleared for clinical in use in Europe.

Intelerad announces expansion of cloud-based imaging solution suite

Intelerad Medical Systems, based in Montreal, Canada, has announced today the expansion of its cloud-based solution suite that now offers a complete cloud-based imaging platform to the medical imaging community, according to an Intelerad press release.  

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Radiology AI vendor to sell use of its algorithms for $1 per scan

A medical AI startup is offering its image-interpretation algorithms for a flat $1 per read.

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C. diff infection trail leads straight to a CT scanner

Health informaticists at UC-San Francisco have tracked down the source of many cases of Clostridium difficile infection that had vexed a UCSF hospital. The clues—there for the piecing together in the EMR—led to a CT scanner in the emergency department.

Carestream Introduces Easy, Affordable Upgrade to DR

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Carestream Health makes converting to DR easy and affordable with the launch of its CARESTREAM DRX-Transportable System/Lite.

Is the end in sight for computed tomography?

European researchers at various sites on the continent are trying to develop an imaging system that can produce 3D images of internal anatomic structures from a single X-ray exposure.

Around the web

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care. 

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.