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.

Novel language modeling approach correlates radiology, pathology reports

“Because this language model can so rapidly adapt to existing training labels, these results should not be considered the final work but rather a foundation upon which iterative improvement can be performed,” wrote the author of a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

June 4, 2019

NLP IDs incidental lung nodules in unstructured radiology reports

“Despite the common discovery of the (incidental lung nodule) ILN, assessment of radiology reports for lung nodule incidence and guideline concordance of recommendations is understudied,” wrote authors of research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

May 29, 2019

Top priorities of healthcare CIOs

As electronic health records (EHRs) continue to play a huge role for healthcare operators, chief information officers have new concerns and priorities to ensure success. With rising cyberattacks on protected medical information about patients, CIOs are putting more importance on cybersecurity.

March 8, 2019
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Yale launches new health informatics division

The Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics has launched a new health informatics division and masters program aimed at using data from electronic health records (EHRs) to advance clinical and public health research.

February 21, 2019
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Better Practice Integration Through Technology

If some form of practice consolidation is in your radiology practice’s present or future, you should know that many tactical errors are made around the difficulty of sharing information across disparate legacy PACS packages and other peripheral solutions used by newly conjoining practices, departments or organizations. 

February 19, 2019

AI trained to classify unstructured musculoskeletal radiology reports

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain mounds of valuable, but unformatted information making it difficult to use as a source for research, wrote first author, Changhwan Lee, with Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, and colleagues.  AI may be able to solve that problem.

February 7, 2019

Are radiology reports too difficult for patients to understand?

Although online portals allow some patients to easily access their radiology reports, new research published Jan. 8 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found that lumbar spine MRI reports in particular are written at a reading level too advanced for the average patient to comprehend.

January 18, 2019
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Toronto children’s hospital names first chair of AI, biomedical informatics

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has named Anna Goldenberg, PhD, as its first chair of biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence, the University of Toronto recently announced.

January 15, 2019