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.

Vital to Demonstrate New Image Sharing Strategy

Sharing capabilities for Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging Customers

Happy hour in mere minutes? Ultrasound may hasten liquor aging

When it comes to top-shelf libations, it is often true that the longer it's aged, the better it tastes. But Spanish researchers may have found a shortcut to waiting years for that perfect flavor.

Meet some startups driving AI deeper into radiology

“It’s only a matter of time before every x-ray machine is connected to the cloud and one human doctor per hospital puts his hand on your shoulder when he reads you the output from the AI algorithm.”

Artificial intelligence is still coming for rads’ jobs—or was it ever?

Technology futurists continue to predict the doomsday scenario of artificial intelligence rising to steal medical diagnosticians’ jobs right out from under them. 

‘2017 Best in KLAS’—Sectra is Rated #1 in Customer Satisfaction for Large Hospital/IDN PACS by US Healthcare Providers

 International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that for the fourth consecutive year in the US, Sectra PACS has been named ‘Best in KLAS’ for PACS (Large Hospital/IDN) category.

Exercising can help 'attenuate age-related neurodegeneration'

Assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, Scott Hayes, PhD, and his research team, were prompted to do research on cardiac fitness and brain health in older adults after serveral animal studies that showed physical activity positively impacting memory performance and brain regions critical for memory. 

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Partners with 7Dimaging to Strengthen its Educational Offering

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leading provider in musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK), has partnered with 7Dimaging to strengthen its educational resources by offering the mskNAV™ Education Tool.

John Muir Health to Install a Sectra Cloud-Based Archive for Enterprise Imaging

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that John Muir Health has purchased an archive to store radiology and cardiology studies in the cloud.

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.