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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How one radiology practice dove into the big-data revolution, bolstered productivity by 10%

Advanced Radiology Services has built a data warehouse internally that’s transforming the way its clinicians tackle problems. 

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Radiology reports must evolve to serve patient audience, expert asserts

Michigan Medicine's Vivek Kalia, MD, recently made this call to action to his peers in a new Academic Radiology editorial. 

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Hospital warns customers after imaging server security breach

Roosevelt General Hospital is urging its customers to stay vigilant, as information affected included dates of birth, social security numbers and insurance details. 

RSNA issues updated guidelines to help make imaging interoperability a reality

As part of the rollout, Ambra Health, LifeImage and Philips Healthcare have committed to adopting this framework. 

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7 ways radiologists can harness imaging informatics to reduce burnout

Experts recently made their pitch for informatics as a burnout-buster in a new analysis, set to be published in February’s Clinical Imaging. 

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Simple visual aid in EHR reduces duplicate imaging orders by 40%

Researchers with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, recently made that discovery through a years-long experiment involving tens of thousands of patients. 

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Radiologists must play central role in battling gun violence, expert argues

With so many gunshot victims requiring some type of imaging, radiologists can play a “pivotal” role in addressing this epidemic of violence, including building a database to better track violence’s aftermath. 

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CT Phone Home: RBJ Receives Word From the CT Front Lines That You Might Not Have Heard

Forty years after physicist Allan Cormack and electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield jointly won a Nobel Prize for inventing computed tomography as we know it, the modality continues to generate new or improved uses and iterations. RBJ spoke with several trailblazers who are still plumbing the depths of CT applications.