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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5 Steps Radiologists Can Take Today to Improve Reports

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

For all its high-tech gadgets, tools, prompts, aids and reminders, the modern radiology report really isn’t all that different from the first of its kind, rendered as a longhand note.

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Optimizing reading protocols: At Legacy Health, a never-ending job

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Those who think PACS optimization ends following a successful implementation should think again: Thirteen years after Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health implemented Synapse PACS, the work is ongoing to keep 50-plus radiologists happy and maximally productive.

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Futureproofing workflows

McKesson

When the merger and acquisition frenzy catches up to your organization, will it cause headaches for your imaging workflows?

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Montage–Nuance integration synergizes analytics capabilities

Sponsored by Nuance

William Boonn, MD, had barely begun his career as a radiologist when his department colleagues started approaching him and fellow IT-savvy radiologist Woojin Kim, MD, with questions about analytics and data-mining. And why not?

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Innovation, collaboration and highly creative computation: What Sectra saw at the hackathon

Sponsored by Sectra

The sun, the moon and some bright minds were working overtime on the southern shore of Lake Erie the last weekend in September. The occasion was the first-ever Cleveland Medical Hackathon.

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Michael Peters, ACR: The MU–MIPS connection and Stage 3 MU

Sponsored by Konica Minolta

According to CMS's latest attestation data, some 4,720 unique diagnostic radiologists have at least one year of participation in Stage 1 or Stage 2 Meaningful Use under their belts. This cohort has made around 9,000 unique attestations since 2011, showing quantifiable and clinically significant use of certified EHR technology.

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How improving prior authorization helps your patients, referring physicians, and your imaging practice

Sponsored by Merge, an IBM company

Imaging Specialists of Charleston, a radiologist-owned, full-service medical imaging center in a South Carolina suburb faces stiff competition in its region, specifically from a trio of hospital-based imaging providers.

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As referrers seek efficient communications with radiologists, Direct Messaging offers a key solution

RamSoft

Secure Direct Messaging capabilities have become must-have components for many if not most users of RIS and PACS. While Meaningful Use’s requirements around the technology have spurred much of the adoption, Direct Messaging has grown in popularity by its own merits.