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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Short MRI protocols are part of imaging’s future, but radiologists must tread carefully

Experts from two top institutions shared their arguments for and against abbreviated exams in AJR.

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Standardizing chest CT reporting ups odds of early lung cancer diagnosis by nearly 25%

Kaiser Permanente’s system works by dividing patients with suspicious nodules into eight separate categories, similar to screening mammography. 

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Google partners with imaging software firm Claritas HealthTech for new teleradiology platform

The Singapore-based company has existing plans to roll out its tRAD platform in North America and the U.K., focusing on physician groups and telerad practices.

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Microsoft advances into radiology with new cloud-based medical imaging server

Healthcare systems can use the tool to merge clinical health information with imaging files and perform tasks that are difficult and expensive to complete with current approaches.

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Shifting to subspecialty-based radiology reporting significantly improves turnaround time

The gains were particularly notable in MRI and conventional radiography and at smaller hospitals, experts reported in Insights into Imaging. 

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Nanox signs deal with Ambra Health enabling image exchange capabilities with providers

The pair plan to integrate Ambra’s image exchange solution with Nanox.ARC systems as they are deployed via the startup’s cloud network.

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Sectra adds support for all high-volume digital pathology scanners in bid to improve cancer care

By including additional file format compatibilities, the imaging IT giant said providers now have the freedom to choose a scanner most suitable for their workflows.

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Hospital promises change after physician reads wrong CT scans, leading to 28-year-old patient’s death

Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now in the process of purchasing a new PACS system to reduce some unnecessary manual steps.