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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HHS warns more than 275 million medical images are vulnerable due to unsecured PACS

Part of the problem also involves storing images via the DICOM format, which can be exploited to falsify scans, install malware and sabotage research.

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Radiologists can help drop unnecessary opioid prescriptions with low-cost imaging reporting change

Patients often visit their primary care provider for lower back pain, with imaging revealing no acute injury and only common signs of wear and tear, UW experts wrote recently.  

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6 ways blockchain could change radiology as we know it

The European Society of Radiology published a whitepaper detailing the power of this emerging distributed database technology in Insights into Imaging.

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Radiology reporting may be missing a crucial perspective—patient feedback

Researchers embedded a two-question survey into electronic health records at two institutions to gain insight into how consumers and providers view imaging reports.

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Hospital reduces radiology reporting disruptions, CT wait times with simple practice tweak

The academic imaging department found that plain computed tomography head scans produced numerous phone calls from referrers, pulling rads away from their work. 

5 tips radiology practices must consider to combat cybersecurity threats

Healthcare lags other industries in funding programs to combat cyberattacks, and successful breeches can leave imaging departments reeling.

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PET/CT insights predict immunotherapy response in patients with advanced lung cancer

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers used PET/CT features to help develop their deep learning tool.

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Interactive radiology reporting may become a competitive advantage in value-based care

HIMSS and SIIM detailed the current and future goals of interactive multimedia reporting in a new whitepaper published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.