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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Medical image-sharing startup PocketHealth balloons fundraising to nearly $23M

Founded in 2016, the company offers what it believes is the first “patient-centric” solution allowing consumers to instantly access their images.

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Scaling structured radiology reporting template use across multiple health systems to build a data registry

Pennsylvania imaging experts offered several key lessons learned, including the need to engage rads and continuously monitor data accuracy. 

Study analyzes use of AI to alert patients, physicians to incidental imaging findings

Aiming to prevent delayed or missed care, Northwestern Medicine uses natural language processing to screen signed reports for text that indicates a follow-up recommendation.

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Regardless of specialty, female physicians spend more time in the EHR than men

“Our findings provide a potential mechanism for the gender gap in burnout, which has implications for workforce mental health and physician retention,” experts wrote Thursday. 

VIDEO: Creating a telecardiology program

Ami Bhatt, MD, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) chief innovation officer, and former director of telecardiology at Mass General Hospital, explains how to create and manage a cardiac telemedicine program.
 

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Application for reporting adverse contrast reactions significantly increases radiologists’ thoroughness

Mass General has piloted the use of a new tool called CISaR (Contrast Incident Support and Reporting) to vastly improve documentation.

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What impact do clinical histories have on radiologists' diagnostic performance?

The availability of clinical histories is beneficial to radiologists but has previously been shown to create bias and increase false positives in some cases.

This Is Enterprise Imaging

Sponsored by Sectra

First there was PACS: picture archiving and communications systems. Over the last decade, as managing medical imaging has expanded far beyond radiology, enterprise imaging was born. But what is enterprise imaging in its best form?