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.

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Radiologists utilize novel CAD-RADS in 95% of coronary CTA reports

Massachusetts General Hospital doctors analyzed Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System usage in their high-volume cardiac CT services center for the study.

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Language processing translates free-text radiology reports for better lung cancer staging

Enhancing the reporting and staging process may speed up workflows and greatly improve imaging care, researchers explained recently.

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‘New frontier’: Hybrid tool eliminates time, cost of extracting clinical data from screening reports

The algorithm accurately gathers clinical information from colonoscopy screening and pathology documents.

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Structured CT reports improve cancer staging, communication between radiologists and surgeons

Templates helped imaging providers relay key features of gastric cancer and were preferred over free-text reporting.

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.

Psychiatry turns to AI for new help with an old problem

AI is poised to help settle an argument that’s been roiling academic psychiatry for more than a century: Are bipolar disorder and schizophrenia two distinct diagnoses—or points along a single continuum?

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Radiologists armed with millions of reports launching new study to pin down incidental findings

University of Washington Medicine researchers will develop a database of records outlining follow-up costs, diagnoses and health outcomes associated with various incidentalomas.

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Patients still waiting for clearer radiology reports, particularly when it comes to MRI exams

Unclear terms, report structure, and general confusion topped imaging-focused questions posted to online forums.