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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Attending radiologists must embrace a dynamic approach to readouts for trainees to properly develop

The impact of readouts on young rads is "profound, but often overlooked," radiologists argued recently.

‘Zero’ watermarking images provides needed security, but can’t fully safeguard radiology data

It particularly falls short at determining if a modified image belongs to the original author or someone else's similar image.

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CMS finalizes rule to speed up Medicare coverage of breakthrough imaging devices

Administrator Seema Verma said Medicare beneficiaries have traditionally not had predictable, immediate access to innovative devices, but that will change following a recent announcement.

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Having attending radiologists cover overnight reporting reduces ED imaging callbacks by 90%

University of Toronto researchers also believe this practice will decrease costs and enhance patient flow in their emergency department, they explained in Emergency Radiology.

Rapid go-live as first trust in Greater Manchester patient diagnostic imaging initiative deploys Sectra solution

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first of eight NHS trusts in the UK to deploy the imaging IT solution.

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Radiologists assert new data consent agreements are needed before patient trust is gone

Most current approaches are complex and don't specifically discuss imaging, researchers explained in an opinion piece published recently in JACR.

patient image portal sharing covid-19

Radiology providers struggling to share images in a timely fashion, steer patients to portals

That's according to a new survey of academic medical center leaders, published in Clinical Imaging

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RSNA’s first dataset of annotated COVID-19 images officially published

This initial repository includes 120 chest CT scans from four international care sites, with thousands of more coming soon.