Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics (also known as radiology informatics, a component of wider medical or healthcare informatics) includes systems to transfer images and radiology data between radiologists, referring physicians, patients and the entire enterprise. This includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), wider enterprise image systems, radiology information. systems (RIS), connections to share data with the electronic medical record (EMR), and software to enable advanced visualization, reporting, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, exam ordering, clinical decision support, dictation, and remote image sharing and viewing systems.

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US Radiology Specialists will pay $450K for failing to upgrade hardware to prevent ransomware attack

Stemming from this alleged oversight, a “threat actor” gained access to its network and stole personal health information from 198,260 patients across the U.S. 

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Fujifilm Healthcare providing image data management for Pentagon

Fujifilm Healthcare can now offer its Synapse 7x service to all organizations within the DoD.

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Hospital faulted after 20-week MRI delay, missing opportunity for earlier diagnosis of terminal cancer

Dunedin Hospital has since ordered an additional MRI scanner to address lagging wait times and is updating processes to better track cancer patients' progress. 

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Integration moves radiology image viewing and analysis onto single platform

Radical Imaging's FlexView now integrates with the Apollo Enterprise Imaging suite. 

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Radiology provider Akumin restores most systems following ransomware attack

The Plantation, Florida-based imaging center operator recently reached “important milestones” in its comeback from a debilitating October cyberattack. 

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Radiology vendor Covera Health raises up to $50M in financing, acquires AI firm

Coupled with its acquisition of CoRead—an AI quality assurance company used by over 2,000 hospitals—the startup plans to rapidly scale its offerings. 

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Roche, Ibex Medical Analytics and AWS partner for better cancer diagnostics

The three companies are partnering to bring AI tools to Roche’s digital pathology platform to streamline cancer diagnoses.

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Patients prefer radiology reports that are structured, more challenging to read

The finding suggests that healthcare consumers desire greater detail in the reports, allowing them to seek further info about diseases or findings.