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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Follow-up recommendations in radiology reports commonly contain little standardization. Machine learning and deep learning methods are each effective for deciphering reports and may provide the foundation for real-time recommendation extraction, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

General Electric (GE) has filed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) for its healthcare unit, GE Healthcare, according to numerous sources familiar with the ongoing situation. The offering is expected to take place by the middle of 2019.

Tech company Amazon has launched a new medical language processing service that, by using artificial intelligence (AI), can extract data from patient records and reports to help healthcare professionals make better treatment decisions, address data privacy and decrease overall costs, according to a report published Nov. 28 by TechCrunch.