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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Radiology company Assured Imaging escapes class-action lawsuit over cyberattack

A federal judge ruled patients lacked legal standing to sue, saying the potentially stolen information didn't rise to the level of "certainly impending injury."

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4 tips to help radiology departments vet and cancel inappropriate imaging requests

Vetting is an “extremely important” but often overlooked duty of physicians in imaging, U.K. experts wrote recently. 

Psychiatry turns to AI for new help with an old problem

AI is poised to help settle an argument that’s been roiling academic psychiatry for more than a century: Are bipolar disorder and schizophrenia two distinct diagnoses—or points along a single continuum?

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Radiologists armed with millions of reports launching new study to pin down incidental findings

University of Washington Medicine researchers will develop a database of records outlining follow-up costs, diagnoses and health outcomes associated with various incidentalomas.

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Radiology Partners quality initiative dramatically improves abdominal aortic aneurysm reporting and tracking

Prior to implementation, only 2% of reports for dangerous AAAs included follow-up recommendations, but that number jumped to 58% afterward, experts wrote in JACR. 

Screws tighten on lung cancer with cross-field AI analytics

Deep neural networks are capable of tying oncological findings from genetic testing with those from medical imaging and biopsy analysis to not only validate previously discovered connections among and between the three fields but also uncover new ones.  

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With info-blocking rules now in place, radiology departments need to standardize embargo periods

Yale researchers conducted a "secret shopper" survey of more than 80 top U.S. hospitals for their special report, published in Radiology.

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Radiologists miss 24% of interval breast cancers they could have caught on initial screening mammogram

Double reading, optimizing image quality, and improving positioning are all ways to potentially address these misses, experts wrote in Academic Radiology