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.

Surgeon accidentally removes woman's kidney, blames missing radiology results

A Florida-based surgeon must pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman’s kidney because he thought it was a cancerous mass. The surgeon has pointed out that the patient's radiology results were not at the hospital at the time of the surgery.

January 11, 2019

VA hospital representatives in Pacific Northwest select Carestream as their enterprise PACS supplier

Carestream

Carestream has been awarded a multimillion-dollar healthcare IT contract for Veterans Affairs hospitals in the Pacific Northwest region, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and parts of Montana.

January 8, 2019

VA Hospital Representatives in Pacific Northwest Select Carestream as Their Enterprise PACS Supplier

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 8 — Carestream has been awarded a multimillion-dollar healthcare IT contract for Veterans Affairs hospitals in the Pacific Northwest region, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and parts of Montana. Carestream will install its Clinical Collaboration Platform (see video link) throughout VISN 20 healthcare facilities. The implementation of Carestream’s enterprise imaging platform (including Vue PACS, Vue Motion and Vue Archive) will help unify imaging and simplify medical image management.

January 8, 2019

How AI can help extract follow-up recommendations from radiology reports

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help providers identify follow-up recommendations in radiology reports, according to new research published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

January 4, 2019

How a breast imaging center plans to improve patient-centered care

Long wait times can negatively impact patient satisfaction, which then harms the patient-centered, value-based care imaging departments seek to provide. But collecting the necessary data for improvements can be difficult, according to the authors of a case study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

January 3, 2019

Inconsistent imaging: CT radiation doses vary around the world

CT protocols and radiation doses vary significantly across different countries, according to a new study published in the BMJ. The authors added, however, that developing a consistent standard “should be possible.”

January 3, 2019

International group announces success of project aimed at improving lung cancer detection

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has announced the completion of an Early Lung Imaging Confederation (ELIC) pilot project designed to improve early lung cancer detection by establishing a large network of shared CT images.

December 20, 2018

Breast imaging clinic closely monitors workflow to improve efficiency

A hospital-based breast imaging clinic implemented a real-time location system (RTLS) to track its workflow, learning important information that will lead to better patient care moving forward.

December 20, 2018

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