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.

Ambra Health Offers Access to Medical Imaging with Epic Integrations

New capabilities use interoperability to enable patients and physicians alike to instantly access medical imaging. 

COVID-19 coronavirus

RSNA officially launches massive open database of COVID-19 medical images

It says more than 200 healthcare institutions across the globe have now expressed interest in participating, with “substantial” datasets already added to the repository. 

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EHR-based clinical decision support helps radiologists make dent in low-value pediatric imaging

When a child shows up at the emergency department with a traumatic brain injury, the encounter can often result in a costly head CT scan that provides little benefit to the patient, experts wrote Tuesday in JACR. 

Lung cancer cigarettes

Money, time and tech among barriers preventing widespread lung cancer screening adoption

That’s according to a new survey of various clinician types, published recently in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 

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How Harvard radiologists rapidly adopted a new reporting structure for possible COVID-19 patients

Others have previously designed such reporting and data systems, but those do not specifically address radiology department workflows, Brigham and Women's experts wrote in JACR

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More than 20% of patients have caught errors in their radiology report or other doc notes

That’s according to a new survey of almost 30,000 consumers, led by Harvard Medical School and published in JAMA Network Open

Nanox

Radiology disrupter Nanox collects $20M from South Korean telecom giant, eyeing 5G imaging

This is in addition to SK’s previous contribution of $5 million and balloons the Israeli system-maker’s fundraising total to $80 million from the likes of Fujifilm and Foxconn

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San Francisco startup dealing in cloud-based AI imaging technology raises $28M

Arterys announced the capital infusion on May 29, with the lion’s share of funding coming from Benslie Investment Group and Temasek Holdings.