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.

'Technical issue' prevents providers from receiving alerts on actionable imaging findings for 3 years
The system uses color coded flags to alert general practitioners that a patient's imaging report contains "serious or unexpected” findings.
Generative AI model shows potential for reading chest X-rays used for TB screenings
Generative artificial intelligence models have shown great potential for improving multiple aspects of the radiology field, but a new analysis cautions that they still require significant oversight.
Radiology practice reportedly shutters after cyberattack, selling its property to local hospital system
Patients have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Pinehurst Radiology Associates, claiming it failed to protect their medical records.
4 cybersecurity best practices for radiology groups
Digitization of exams has made the imaging industry a “prime target” for cybercriminals, experts wrote recently in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Radiologists call on AMA to push for new federal IT interoperability standards
Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the ACR, explains a resolution adopted at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting calling for new health IT standards.

In oncology, subspecialist radiology reports significantly favored over those from generalists

Cancer docs claim CT reports from subspecialists were clearer and more accurate, according to a new Insights into Imaging study.

Health giant says the time for CDs is gone—$1M in savings underscores why

Burning studies and reports onto physical discs cost Yale New Haven Health nearly $550,000 in 2019 alone, one expert explained during the SIIM Annual Meeting.

‘Double whammy’: Pandemic worsens breast cancer screening disparities among minority women

Comparing mammography rates between April-December of 2020 against the same period in 2019, Washington state scientists found stark differences.

Radiology company Assured Imaging escapes class-action lawsuit over cyberattack

A federal judge ruled patients lacked legal standing to sue, saying the potentially stolen information didn't rise to the level of "certainly impending injury."

4 tips to help radiology departments vet and cancel inappropriate imaging requests

Vetting is an “extremely important” but often overlooked duty of physicians in imaging, U.K. experts wrote recently.

Radiology Partners quality initiative dramatically improves abdominal aortic aneurysm reporting and tracking

Prior to implementation, only 2% of reports for dangerous AAAs included follow-up recommendations, but that number jumped to 58% afterward, experts wrote in JACR.

With info-blocking rules now in place, radiology departments need to standardize embargo periods

Yale researchers conducted a "secret shopper" survey of more than 80 top U.S. hospitals for their special report, published in Radiology.

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Radiologists miss 24% of interval breast cancers they could have caught on initial screening mammogram

Double reading, optimizing image quality, and improving positioning are all ways to potentially address these misses, experts wrote in Academic Radiology.

Enterprise Imaging

'Technical issue' prevents providers from receiving alerts on actionable imaging findings for 3 years

Generative AI model shows potential for reading chest X-rays used for TB screenings

Radiology practice reportedly shutters after cyberattack, selling its property to local hospital system

4 cybersecurity best practices for radiology groups

Radiologists call on AMA to push for new federal IT interoperability standards