Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Florida radiology practice reports data breach as attorneys eye lawsuit
Vital Imaging Diagnostic Centers recently alerted patients about the apparent cyberattack with an unauthorized party likely gaining access to private health information.
Radiology practice sells imaging center to hospital partner while remaining independent
Fayetteville-based Valley Regional Imaging is unloading its facility to Cape Fear Valley Health, a hospital based in the same Sandhills-region community of southeastern North Carolina.
Sectra signs $21M enterprise imaging contract with large US medical center
The institution will utilize the Sectra One Cloud, seeking to improve workflows across its radiology, breast imaging, cardiology and orthopedic departments.
Ransomware attack on DaVita kidney care clinics exposes 2.7M patients
The initial incident happened in April. Since that time, the notorious cybercrime cell Interlock has claimed responsibility. A data dump from the breach was put up for sale on the dark web.
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Could ChatGPT be up to the task of monitoring AI drift?

Artificial intelligence tools in radiology require constant monitoring to ensure model performance remains consistent.

Amy Thompson from Signify Research explains integration of AI into CVIS systems

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?

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Google, NASA working to deploy AI medical assistant on space missions

A new natural language processing tool from Google is being trained on spaceflight scenarios to aid medical personnel on missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

AI company to develop radiology-specific LLM reporting assistant

The system will assist radiologists by identifying lesions and drafting a single-sentence, localization-aware report alerting readers to the finding.

Duke Health partners with analytics firm Trilliant to engage patients

Duke Health said the analytics platform will help it better understand the patient care needs of the local community, improve satisfaction scores and guide decisions about expanding services.

Healthcare IT analyst Amy Thompson from Signify Research explains trends in cardiology information systems at ACC 2025.

Cardiovascular IT systems keep evolving with AI, Epic integration on the rise

A Signify Research representative highlights key trends in cardiovascular IT systems, including the growing role of AI and much more.

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5 takeaways from new ACR, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine cybersecurity guidance

The two recently convened a panel of multidisciplinary stakeholders to discuss this issue, including radiologists, technologists, informaticists and physicists.

It’s official: Breach of Change Healthcare impacted 193M people

The number is almost double initial estimates. With final data breach notifications now sent, UnitedHealthcare said its investigation into the February 2024 ransomware attack is coming to a close.

Health IT

Florida radiology practice reports data breach as attorneys eye lawsuit

Radiology practice sells imaging center to hospital partner while remaining independent

Sectra signs $21M enterprise imaging contract with large US medical center

Ransomware attack on DaVita kidney care clinics exposes 2.7M patients

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