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.

Intelerad Launches CosmosOne — a Living Medical Archive

Montreal, Canada – May 23, 2017 – Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in enterprise workflow solutions, today launched  CosmosOne™, a living medical archive that centralizes all types of patient health information, so it can be accessed and shared in real-time, regardless of its source or format. 

2 major healthcare players come together over AI expansion

GE and Boston’s Partners Healthcare are combining their considerable forces to inject AI deeper into healthcare, and they’re starting with—what else?—radiology. 

MRI contrast injector among devices attacked by WannaCry in U.S.

Medical devices hit in the U.S. by the WannaCry ransomware attacks included a Bayer-Medrad MRI contrast-agent injector, according to a Forbes reporter who has obtained from an unnamed source a screen capture of the attack in progress.

Ultrasound making waves beyond medicine

What do acoustic holograms, tractor beams, glasses for the totally blind and Martian scanners all have in common? 

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New pediatric heart MR faster, more adaptable to remote care

A newly proposed technique for contrast-enhanced 3D MR angiography is not substantially better on image quality than standard sequential 2D for planning the care of children with congenital heart disease. However, the 3D approach allows faster and offline planning, thereby reducing scan times significantly.

With money on the table, AI inches closer to aiding lung-cancer diagnosis

A contest with a $1 million kitty has brought out the best in research teams competing to develop algorithms for finding lung cancers in low-dose CT images. 

Sectra signs contract with US cancer center for enterprise imaging

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that it has signed a multi-year contract with City of Hope to install the Sectra Enterprise Image Management suite of products for display, transmission, and storage of all images throughout the healthcare system.

Open System Imaging Expands Digisonics OB/GYN Reporting Solution for Improved Workflow Efficiency

HOUSTON (April 25, 2017) – Open System Imaging in Chico, Calif., has selected Digisonics over the competition with help from their customers. 

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses some of the biggest obstacles facing the specialty in the new year. 

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.