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.

Carestream begins shipping upgraded clinical collaboration platform that expedites, enhances radiology reporting workflow

Carestream Health is now shipping an upgraded version of its Clinical Collaboration Platform that is designed to both expedite and enhance radiology reporting workflow.

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Computer-led protocol selection could automate workflow, save radiologists time

As their duties are seemingly always piled sky-high, radiologists often wonder which aspects of their job they can trust to automated technology. Selecting protocols for standard CT and MRI exams could be one of them, a group of Detroit researchers reported this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

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Hacker group aims at MRI, x-ray devices as part of corporate espionage operation

A group of hackers has been targeting and installing malware into x-rays, MRIs and other medical machines in the U.S. to learn more about such devices, according to an article published by Forbes.

Radiomic CT accurate in predicting spread of common lung cancer, enhancing surgical decisions

A team of researchers out of China found the CT-based radiomic signature of primary tumors can be used to quantitatively and noninvasively predict the spread of a common form of lung cancer to lymph nodes.

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Could a hacker expose a patient to excessive radiation during a CT scan? Maybe

Think about security breaches in healthcare and you might imagine patient information—Social Security numbers, addresses, insurance information, etc. But one recent article by the U.K.-based The Register explores possible implications for medical imaging devices.

Ordering providers are producing less clinical information in radiology requisitions

The quality of communication between ordering providers and radiologists via radiology requisitions is declining, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology. If this trend continues, it could potentially hurt a radiologist’s ability to provide the best patient care possible.

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Ambra Health to offer cloud-based medical imaging platform in Japan

Ambra Health has reached an agreement with MC Healthcare, a medical distributor and subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Corporation, to offer a cloud-based medical imaging platform in Japan.

Radiology requisitions are getting longer, but quality clinical information is declining

Radiologist requisitions are the primary means of acquiring clinical information and have been shown to improve diagnosis. But new research suggests the quality of clinical information in these forms is declining.