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.

Feds delay enforcement of new interoperability rules to ease burden on providers

“In a pandemic of this magnitude, flexibility is paramount for a healthcare system under siege by COVID-19,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said.

1-stop shopping for COVID-19 resources from RSNA

The Radiological Society of North America has rounded up and gathered together its online COVID-19 resources, enabling easy engagement with all things imaging, coronavirus and RSNA.

Sectra gains FDA clearance for digital pathology diagnostic, remote reading module

The module allows U.S. providers to view pathology slides side-by-side with medical images and doesn't require traditional microscopes.

Supporting Rural Health In Alaska, an Admin Grows into Her New PACS

Sponsored by Sectra

The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is a 173-bed hospital located in Anchorage, Ala., working in close partnership with Alaska’s rural health facilities to support a broad range of healthcare and related services.

Lung ultrasound for COVID-19: Expert physicians propose new international standards

Italian clinicians currently battling the pandemic outlined proper equipment usage, procedures, disease classification and data-sharing priorities in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

RSNA announces new COVID-19 imaging data archive initiative

The organization is also asking radiology leaders to share institution-specific coronavirus imaging data as part of its efforts to extinguish the pandemic.

RSNA launching COVID-19 image-sharing initiative following ‘wave of requests’

The Radiological Society of North America said it’s creating a coronavirus imaging data repository in a bid to boost research on the novel disease.

Radiologists gather COVID-19 second opinions from far-flung peers using WhatsApp

The coronavirus pandemic has the potential to overwhelm busy provider organizations, but social media could provide relief, according to one new study.

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