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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.