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.

Cardiology groups to Trump administration: AI still has a long way to go
Multiple cardiology societies responded to an HHS request for public feedback by outlining some of the current barriers to wider AI adoption. "It is essential that any policy frameworks must reaffirm that clinicians—not algorithms—remain at the center of patient care," ACC President Christopher Kramer, MD, said.
Key radiology IT trends worth watching
In this video interview, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine leaders discuss some of the biggest imaging IT trends emerging in 2026.
SIIM offers opportunity for imaging information champions
Education through the organization provides the knowledge needed for clinicians to work with IT teams to implement major system projects.
2026 Best in KLAS rankings examine cardiovascular information systems, hemodynamic solutions
The annual rankings, based on survey responses and interviews, include a fresh look at some of most important tools in cardiovascular care.
Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration
The collaboration allows providers to order diagnostic tests and then receive results directly in Epic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Informatics

Cardiology groups to Trump administration: AI still has a long way to go

Key radiology IT trends worth watching

SIIM offers opportunity for imaging information champions

2026 Best in KLAS rankings examine cardiovascular information systems, hemodynamic solutions

Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration