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.

FDA clears new cloud-native advanced imaging suite
The product will become available to certain users as early as next week, according to a news release on its recent approval.
Over half of emergency CT requests are considered 'inadequate'
Up to 72% of CT requisitions from ED providers could be considered inadequate according to RI-RADS, which was developed to evaluate the clinical reasoning quality of imaging orders.
Radiology experts advocate against purging decade-old imaging data
Researchers with the University of Virginia recently aimed to answer this question, sharing their findings in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine.
Lack of standardized PSMA PET/CT reporting hindering patient care
A new assessment details numerous discrepancies between scoring systems, which could have a detrimental impact on patient care, experts contend.
Radiology resident-led quality improvement project boosts incidental findings follow-up rate
The monthly audit is used to identify findings that may have been missed by referring providers within their network, along with initiating communication of radiologists' recommendations.

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.

Creating a better radiology report: 8 expert recommendations

Radiologists from the U.S., England and Australia shared their advice for improving these documents in RadioGraphics.

Delay likely as November start date for new interoperability rules ‘nearly infeasible,’ ACR says

In April, the federal government pushed back enforcement of the new rules due to flexibility concerns for healthcare systems battling COVID-19.

Structured oncology reporting for follow-up imaging of metastatic cancer patients scores high marks

This more uniform method of reporting has now become the "backbone of oncological imaging" at one high-volume cancer center.

Novant Health Brings Cardiology into Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise Imaging

FDA clears new cloud-native advanced imaging suite

Over half of emergency CT requests are considered 'inadequate'

Radiology experts advocate against purging decade-old imaging data

Lack of standardized PSMA PET/CT reporting hindering patient care

Radiology resident-led quality improvement project boosts incidental findings follow-up rate