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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Patient portals help radiologists demonstrate value, increase visibility

What does it mean for radiology now that more and more patients are gaining online access to their radiology reports? According to a new analysis published in Academic Radiology, the widespread adoption of patient portals helps radiologists increase their visibility and provide additional value.

Clinicians, patients agree: Include obesity-related information in radiology reports

Clinicians and patients both prefer to have obesity-related information included in radiology reports, according to a new study published in Clinical Radiology.

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Q&A: Jahni Tapley on Saving Lives and Bucking Trends in Rural Oklahoma

Sponsored by vRad

For small rural hospitals such as McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., an on-staff radiologist is a luxury. After losing its single in-house radiologist, the facility floated between several different teleradiology providers before finally landing on vRad—largely due to vRad’s strong breast health portfolio.

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Now Hiring? Don’t Let Today’s Market Challenges Hold You Back

Sponsored by vRad

The radiology job market has had its fair share of ups and downs, as one can see by simply scanning the last 15 years of data from Merritt Hawkins, a popular physician search firm. In 2003, radiology was the No. 1 most requested search assignment at Merritt Hawkins. 

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Embracing value-based care: Radiologists are more than read, rinse, repeat

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

The shift to value-based care is looking like less of a transition and more of a reality for imaging departments.

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Enterprise imaging spurs a bold vision of unparalleled care for countless kids in Northeast Ohio

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

At Akron Children’s Hospital, the road to fully realized patient-centered care for kids leads to a scenario in which all patient information—including consent forms, admissions documents, diagnostic images and multimedia files—is readily accessible through the facility’s EHR.

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Installed a VNA? Your Enterprise Imaging Journey Has Only Just Begun

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

If your hospital or healthcare system is like most others in the U.S. today, you have an EHR that’s proving expensive to maintain while working well below its potential for centralized, cost-saving image sharing. You’re fretting over non-DICOM images acquired with smartphones and insecurely siloed in numerous clinical departments. And you’re also talking a lot about enterprise imaging (EI) as a way to broach both those touchy topics and a host of others.

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How the Right Imaging Equipment Helps a Small-Town Hospital Deliver Big-City Medicine

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

When it comes to ensuring patients receive the best possible imaging experience, Star Valley Medical Center in Afton, Wyo. went the extra mile so that patients don’t have to.