Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

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Is your medical imaging data safe? 4.4M files exposed online, according to new report

More than two billion files—including approximately 4.4 million medical imaging files—have been exposed online across various storage technologies, according to a new report from Digital Shadows.

Intelerad commits $75 Million to R&D for new AI and cloud-based medical imaging software solutions

Montreal-based software company accelerates 20-year track record of international growth.

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4.4M medical imaging files exposed online, new report finds

Researchers estimate nearly 4.4 million medical imaging files were exposed through online file repositories—nearly double the number revealed last year, according to a May 30 report published by digital risk prevention company Digital Shadows.

Imaging utilization for low back pain on the rise

Imaging utilization for low back pain by primary care providers has increased in recent years, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Midwest Hospital Purchases Carestream’s Radiology PACS, Advanced Image Reading, Reporting Tools

Broadlawns Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa) purchased Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform (see video link) with features that include advanced visualization, mammography, 3D, lesion management, PET-CT applications and integrated voice recognition.

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How a hospital reduced unnecessary gadolinium use in MS patients

The method spared nearly 90% of patients from unnecessary contrast and additional imaging sequences, reported authors of a May 16 study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Automated feedback helps radiologists learn from pathology results

Would an automated radiology-pathology feedback tool provide value for radiologists? Researchers developed one and studied its effectiveness, sharing their findings in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.