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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4 emerging challenges holding teleradiology back from ensuring widespread imaging access

State-specific regulations and licensing are among the top issues impeding remote reading, researchers noted in AJR.

Medical center urges others to utilize secondary imaging reads after finding nearly 70% discrepancy rate

The University of Vermont Medical Center found most of its reinterpeted abdominal MRI cases contained at least one disagreement.

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Radiologists unveil Info-RADS to help patients comprehend their imaging findings

The Information Reporting and Data Systems tool explains if findings are not concerning or if they may require following up with a doctor, experts explained in JACR.

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ACR, Penn Medicine announce partnership to bring advanced analytics into everyday radiology practice

The pair has already developed the Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit, a software platform that analyzes brain, breast and lung cancer images.

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3 steps for succeeding at imaging innovation in your radiology practice

Innovation is crucial to the evolution of radiology, but trailblazers who take shortcuts will be left disappointed, experts advised. 

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Former Mayo Clinic worker wrongly accessed 1,600 patient records, including medical images

The Rochester, Minnesota, system is notifying patients who received care at its Florida and Arizona locations.

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Top-Down Decision Stretches Enterprise Imaging across Texas University Health System

Sponsored by AGFA HealthCare

Last year the institutional leadership at Texas’s University Health System, which contracts with the UT Health San Antonio physician network, made the decision to move all inpatient imaging off the radiology department’s PACS and onto a new enterprise imaging (EI) platform. Their goal was internal consolidation. 

5 tips for safeguarding PACS and imaging devices against cyberattacks

Continually updating software and using virus scanners should be among the top priorities for IT departments, experts explained in Academic Radiology.