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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Long-Standing Customer-Vendor Partnership Brings Next-Generation PACS Technology to Market

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Vendor relationships can sometimes be mundane and ordinary, the kind that involve minimum communication and a lack of understanding of the visions and goals of each organization.

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Google axed release of vast x-ray dataset following NIH privacy concerns

The Silicon Valley giant was set to publish a dataset containing 100,000 chest x-rays, until it received an urgent call from the National Institutes of Health.

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3 patients dead after UK hospital failed to escalate imaging findings

St. George University Hospitals Foundation Trust in the U.K. admitted that missed radiology findings contributed to the death of three patients at its hospital, according to reporting from Health Services Journal.

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Publicly available imaging datasets may not be as reliable as radiologists think

An Australian researcher found labeling problems, some "significant," within two large, publicly available medical imaging datasets.

O-RADS: A new reporting system for ovarian, uterine masses

The Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System combines a common North American approach with a widely used European algorithmic technique, created by an American College of Radiology-sponsored team.

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Company tries image crowdsourcing to speed up AI’s proliferation in radiology

Presagen announced Oct. 30 the launch of its AI Open Projects platform, a tool that allows radiology practices worldwide to share images and help to build AI products that are “robust, scalable and unbiased.” 

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Geisinger launches ‘first-of-its-kind’ system to allow open access to past breast exams

Those involved said that such access is crucial for early cancer detection, and will hopefully help to avoid any unnecessary, duplicative testing in the future. 

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Imaging informaticists play a crucial role in implementing AI

Imaging informaticists can make a big impact on AI strategies, according to a new analysis published in Academic Radiology.