Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

How Konica Minolta’s next generation, cloud-based enterprise imaging is powering one practice’s growth
Finding the right enterprise imaging system is critical for radiology practices and hospitals that need to expand and scale their image management and reading capacity. For Houston Northwest Radiology Association, a large increase in the volume of images they manage for clients means it’s time to commit to a next-gen EI system.
ACR offers resources to achieve radiology AI best practices
Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the American College of Radiology, explains resources available through its Data Science Institute to evaluate and validate the quality of imaging algorithms.
PHOTO GALLERY: Examples of FDA-cleared AI in radiology
This is a photo gallery of artificial intelligence products cleared for clinical use in medical imaging by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Radiology by far is the leader of all clinical AI FDA approvals.
Alabama security breach exposes personal information of cardiologists, heart patients
Both patients and physicians were impacted by the incident, with outside forces gaining access to everything from names and social security numbers to banking information.
Cardiology still a leader in healthcare AI, trailing only radiology in FDA-cleared algorithms
At its current rate, the number of clinical AI models cleared by the FDA will break 1,000 before the end of 2024. Cardiology continues to play a significant role in this ongoing trend.

Geographic information systems a useful tool for population health planning in radiology

Providers have previously deployed such analytics tools in public health programs, but their use has been scarce in imaging, Johns Hopkins experts wrote in JACR.

October 26, 2021

ACR offers info-blocking update, including dealing with surprise radiology reports

New details also include eight exceptions to info-blocking rules, including issues related to privacy, security and charging fees for services that enhance interoperability.

October 1, 2021

5 Years into the Cloud, John Muir Health Is Just Getting Started

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One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500 MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as 3 GB of real estate on a finite-volume storage server.

Radiologists spend 44% less time generating prostate cancer screening reports with new approach

Patients also stand to benefit from more streamlined, consistent approaches to reporting, experts charged recently.

September 20, 2021

Radiology department automates process for spotting reports with actionable findings

The novel natural language processing technique can pinpoint overlooked details and avoid costly delays to patient care.

September 14, 2021

Reader-friendly myocardial perfusion imaging reports connect patients with their own healthcare

Focus groups requested 5 broad changes to reporting habits, which helped bolster readability, comprehension and knowledge of their future heart risks.

August 23, 2021

Radiologists use structured CT reports to create database of metastatic cancer patterns

Natural language processing was up to 99% accurate at spotting cancer spread across 13 different organs.

August 3, 2021

US cybersecurity agency reports critical vulnerabilities in Philips' Vue PACS

The Department of Homeland Security warned the problems can be remotely exploited through relatively low complexity attacks.

July 9, 2021

Informatics

How Konica Minolta’s next generation, cloud-based enterprise imaging is powering one practice’s growth

ACR offers resources to achieve radiology AI best practices

PHOTO GALLERY: Examples of FDA-cleared AI in radiology

Alabama security breach exposes personal information of cardiologists, heart patients

Cardiology still a leader in healthcare AI, trailing only radiology in FDA-cleared algorithms