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.

Rapid go-live as first trust in Greater Manchester patient diagnostic imaging initiative deploys Sectra solution

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first of eight NHS trusts in the UK to deploy the imaging IT solution.

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Standardized reporting can elevate radiologists’ top product from single-use to reusable asset

In a talk during RSNA's annual meeting, one expert urged the specialty to forge its own path, before it's forced to follow others.

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Doctor reports ‘pattern’ of misread mammograms at embattled breast imaging center

Radiologist and Allison Breast Center owner Michael Bigg is being sued by six women over wrongly interpreted scans. 

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Utilizing x-rays, radiology reports to forecast heart failure in the emergency department

MIT’s AI lab, Philips, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are working to implement the system in the Boston institution’s emergency department this fall.

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Novant Health Brings Cardiology into Agfa HealthCare's Enterprise Imaging

Sponsored by AGFA HealthCare

As recently as eight months ago, cardiologists sitting down to work with medical images at Novant Health had plenty of choices on where and how to go about that part of their jobs.

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Radiologists reveal ‘RADCAT’ system to categorize imaging reports, convey important findings

The tool successfully communicated nearly 100% of nonurgent follow-up recommendations at one Rhode Island health system.

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Pandemic has opened doors for telehealth, but security concerns could narrow the space

More than half of Americans, 54%, have seen doctors remotely during the COVID crisis. However, some 48% might not touch telehealth again if their data were to get hacked during a telehealth-related breach.

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‘Cause for concern’: Unread second opinion reports cost one radiology department tens of thousands

Additional interpretations often improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care, but not when they fall by the wayside, authors explained in AJR.