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 systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Hospital promises change after physician reads wrong CT scans, leading to 28-year-old patient’s death

Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now in the process of purchasing a new PACS system to reduce some unnecessary manual steps. 

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4 emerging challenges holding teleradiology back from ensuring widespread imaging access

State-specific regulations and licensing are among the top issues impeding remote reading, researchers noted in AJR.

Medical center urges others to utilize secondary imaging reads after finding nearly 70% discrepancy rate

The University of Vermont Medical Center found most of its reinterpeted abdominal MRI cases contained at least one disagreement.

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Radiologists unveil Info-RADS to help patients comprehend their imaging findings

The Information Reporting and Data Systems tool explains if findings are not concerning or if they may require following up with a doctor, experts explained in JACR.

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ACR, Penn Medicine announce partnership to bring advanced analytics into everyday radiology practice

The pair has already developed the Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit, a software platform that analyzes brain, breast and lung cancer images.

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3 steps for succeeding at imaging innovation in your radiology practice

Innovation is crucial to the evolution of radiology, but trailblazers who take shortcuts will be left disappointed, experts advised. 

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Former Mayo Clinic worker wrongly accessed 1,600 patient records, including medical images

The Rochester, Minnesota, system is notifying patients who received care at its Florida and Arizona locations.

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Top-Down Decision Stretches Enterprise Imaging across Texas University Health System

Sponsored by AGFA HealthCare

Last year the institutional leadership at Texas’s University Health System, which contracts with the UT Health San Antonio physician network, made the decision to move all inpatient imaging off the radiology department’s PACS and onto a new enterprise imaging (EI) platform. Their goal was internal consolidation.