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.

Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration
The collaboration allows providers to order diagnostic tests and then receive results directly in Epic.
FDA clears new cloud-enabled Philips cardiovascular IT system
The cloud-enabled system provides the foundation for future AI-enabled tools, better workflows and analytics.
FDA announces recall for Johnson & Johnson devices due to cybersecurity risk—customers urged to act
The FDA and Johnson & Johnson MedTech are telling customers to keep the devices in a secure environment until they can be disabled from all networks.
ACC urges Congress to restore telemedicine flexibilities
The American College of Cardiology, like many other U.S. medical societies, is fighting to bring back telehealth policies that expired at the end of September.
AI now embedded in nearly every cardiovascular IT system
Artificial intelligence's role in day-to-day patient care continues to grow. What should health systems and cardiology departments be thinking about as they shop for new technologies?

Cardiovascular Leaders Survey: Priorities of the Cardiovascular Service Line

Sponsored by Philips Healthcare

The CV service line has big goals and is mapping out a route to reach them. Leaders are quite focused but know there are roadblocks and traffic jams in their way.

How much structure do clinicians want in their musculoskeletal MRI reports?

Orthopedic providers judged three different knee MRI report templates based on readability, usefulness and quality. The results were published in Academic Radiology.

Clinicians follow musculoskeletal MRI reports less often when further imaging is recommended

More can be done to change this trend, argued authors of a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Referring clinicians follow second opinion radiology reports about half the time

Second opinions were taken under advisement in a majority of instances, but it remains unclear why some fell by the wayside.

RSNA 2019: Patient-centered care means radiology must make reports more accessible

Many institutions are making radiology reports available via online portals, but can patients actually understand the information in them?

Cardiology’s Challenge for the 2020s: Turning the Trend on Rising Mortality

The latest numbers on cardiovascular deaths put the focus on innovative ways to point the trend line down again.

Do referring clinicians actually view MSK radiology reports?

“Although one would think that the radiology report plays a critical role in patient care, few studies have determined whether radiology reports are actually viewed by referrers," Sadaf Sahraian, with Johns Hopkins Medical Institution said.

Machine learning detects radiology reports requiring follow-up imaging

A model utilizing natural language processing and machine learning can accurately detect radiology reports that demand follow-up imaging, reported researchers of a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Informatics

Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration

FDA clears new cloud-enabled Philips cardiovascular IT system

FDA announces recall for Johnson & Johnson devices due to cybersecurity risk—customers urged to act

ACC urges Congress to restore telemedicine flexibilities

AI now embedded in nearly every cardiovascular IT system