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.

AI differentiates 2 types of autoimmune arthritis on CT

Computer scientists, rheumatologists and immunologists have pooled skill sets to develop a neural network that can distinguish between rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis while also recognizing healthy joints with no arthritis at all.

Unclear ownership, uneven assessments hamper informed-consent efforts in IR

The interventional radiology practice of an academic medical center has identified four challenges to securing informed consent from patients or their medical decision-makers. 

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3 indications auguring well for the future of pediatric PET/MRI

In pediatric care settings, hybrid PET/MR imaging combines “exquisite soft-tissue information obtained by MR imaging with functional information provided by PET.”

Portable MRI detects sports injuries near the point of play

Applied physicists have developed a portable MRI system that can screen young tennis players for wrist injuries in a minivan or suchlike passenger vehicle. 

Cross-sectional imaging ordered downstream for just 15% of emergency POCUS patients

Using point-of-care ultrasound in emergency settings does not lead to overutilization of follow-up imaging with cross-sectional CT, MRI or additional ultrasounds. 

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ARRS 2022 discusses pitfalls of radiologist 'tunnel vision'

"Inattention blindness bias" causes radiologists to unintentionally overlook what could be considered an obvious or significant finding.

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Most imaging AI algorithms perform unimpressively in external validation exercises

Some 81% of the models—70 of 86 DL algorithms reported in 83 separate studies—diminished at least somewhat in diagnostic accuracy compared with their accuracy on internal datasets.

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Remote shifts boost radiologist well-being and dilute physician burnout

Staff who participated in a hybrid remote schedule reported better work/life balance and increased productivity, according to a new survey.