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.

Commercially available AI increases breast cancer detection by nearly 20%
Results from the world’s largest prospective artificial intelligence study revealed the system could significantly benefit breast cancer screening programs.
Radiology vendor Visage Imaging inks $19M deal with 1 of Midwest’s largest multispecialty groups
The seven-year agreement is with Illinois-based Duly Health and Care, which employs 1,000 physicians including 40 radiologists working across 150 locations.
ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms
Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, explains how the new Assess-AI National Radiology Data Registry is designed to help monitor accuracy and other metrics for radiology artificial intelligence.
Epic claims interoperability feature averted over 5.8M duplicative imaging exams in 1 year
This would amount to between 400,000 and 500,000 unnecessary scans each month, the Verona, Wisconsin-based vendor said in recently published research.
Imaging leaders share 7 key considerations for remote scanning programs
A new AHRA report provides an in-depth overview of concerns related to remote operations, highlighting everything from safety issues to regulatory oversight.

Sectra PACS named ‘Best in KLAS’ in US for 6th straight year

Sectra announced Thursday, Jan. 31, that its PACS was named ‘Best in KLAS’ in the United States for the sixth year in a row.

January 31, 2019

CDS implementation could impact as many as 19 million ED visits annually

How will the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 impact emergency department (ED) care in 2020 and beyond? That’s precisely what the authors of a new study published in Radiology wanted to find out.

January 30, 2019

Providers share their own experience building structured radiology report templates

Structured report templates are growing in popularity, but creating those templates and implementing them in a health system requires a significant amount of time and effort. After leading such an effort at their own system, a group of specialists wrote about the experience in a new analysis published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 29, 2019

Clinical Collaboration Platform Manages Millions of Imaging Studies, Radiology Reports at Local and Regional Facilities across the World

January 23, 2019

Structured reporting system earns rave reviews from radiologists, referring providers

The use of a structured template for brain tumor imaging can improve how radiologists and ordering physicians view radiology reports, according to new research published in Academic Radiology.

January 21, 2019

Plaque characteristics boost predictive power of CTA risk scoring

A CT angiography (CTA)-derived score that also incorporated the extent, location and composition of coronary plaque outperformed a model that focused only on the severity of stenosis, researchers reported Jan. 16 in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

January 18, 2019

How a Georgia health system found success using structured brain tumor reporting

After implementing a structured reporting template for brain tumor imaging, radiologists became more confident in their reports and felt they better facilitated decision-making, according to a single-center study published in Academic Radiology. Patients were also more satisfied with their reports.

January 18, 2019

DICOM data more accurate, reliable than RIS for MRI workflow improvements

DICOM metadata offers more accurate study information, according to a Jan. 8 study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging. This may ultimately help increase the efficiency of MRI exams while reducing their associated costs.

January 14, 2019

Enterprise Imaging

Commercially available AI increases breast cancer detection by nearly 20%

Radiology vendor Visage Imaging inks $19M deal with 1 of Midwest’s largest multispecialty groups

ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms

Epic claims interoperability feature averted over 5.8M duplicative imaging exams in 1 year

Imaging leaders share 7 key considerations for remote scanning programs