Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

Are LLMs ready for radiology? Research reveals how chatbots' performance has evolved over time
Large language models have shown great potential in medical imaging, but their success has been hindered by their wavering effectiveness. Now, nearly three years after ChatGPT's release, experts are sharing new insights.
ACR expands programs to help radiology practices integrate and trust AI
CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, explains American College of Radiology efforts to help members understand and enable easier integration of artificial intelligence.
Short-term breast cancer risk prediction improves when AI combines imaging with personal info
Understanding which women have the greatest short-term risk could enable providers to implement targeted screening strategies to ensure malignancies are caught at the earliest possible stage.
Primary care providers embrace AI-generated imaging results explanations
Stanford Health Care has developed an electronic health record-integrated tool for helping draft comments on radiology, pathology and lab findings.
Radiology department adopts new incidental findings approach that’s closing cases at a 99% clip
Researchers with Northwestern University in Chicago detailed their novel system in an analysis published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Are LLMs ready for radiology? Research reveals how chatbots' performance has evolved over time

Large language models have shown great potential in medical imaging, but their success has been hindered by their wavering effectiveness. Now, nearly three years after ChatGPT's release, experts are sharing new insights.

Dana Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, FACR, chief executive officer of the American College of Radiology (ACR), explains ACR efforts to help members understand and enable easier integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into practice while also ensuring it can be trusted.

ACR expands programs to help radiology practices integrate and trust AI

CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, explains American College of Radiology efforts to help members understand and enable easier integration of artificial intelligence.

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Short-term breast cancer risk prediction improves when AI combines imaging with personal info

Understanding which women have the greatest short-term risk could enable providers to implement targeted screening strategies to ensure malignancies are caught at the earliest possible stage.

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Primary care providers embrace AI-generated imaging results explanations

Stanford Health Care has developed an electronic health record-integrated tool for helping draft comments on radiology, pathology and lab findings.

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Radiology department adopts new incidental findings approach that’s closing cases at a 99% clip

Researchers with Northwestern University in Chicago detailed their novel system in an analysis published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

HHS announces crackdown on providers failing to share radiology results, other info

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the agency to increase resources dedicated to curbing the “harmful practice of information blocking.”

Radiologist beware: Patients accessing imaging results much quicker after legislative change

Outpatients treated at the Mayo Clinic saw a nearly 78% drop in the median time it took to access their radiology reports, falling from about 4.9 hours down to 1.1 after the Cures Act.

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Florida radiology practice reports data breach as attorneys eye lawsuit

Vital Imaging Diagnostic Centers recently alerted patients about the apparent cyberattack with an unauthorized party likely gaining access to private health information.