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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More than 20% of patients have caught errors in their radiology report or other doc notes

That’s according to a new survey of almost 30,000 consumers, led by Harvard Medical School and published in JAMA Network Open

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Radiology disrupter Nanox collects $20M from South Korean telecom giant, eyeing 5G imaging

This is in addition to SK’s previous contribution of $5 million and balloons the Israeli system-maker’s fundraising total to $80 million from the likes of Fujifilm and Foxconn

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San Francisco startup dealing in cloud-based AI imaging technology raises $28M

Arterys announced the capital infusion on May 29, with the lion’s share of funding coming from Benslie Investment Group and Temasek Holdings. 

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As COVID-19 approached one large health system it quickly installed at-home PACS workstations—here’s how

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System's Department of Radiology outfitted many of its rads with remote reading in order to promote social distancing, sharing their experience in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Lessons learned after radiology department systematically reschedules 30,000 imaging studies

Clear communication has proven crucial and that will only continue as UC Health looks to recover, experts wrote in JACR

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One of the country’s top health information exchanges adds image-sharing capabilities

The more than 19,000 users of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization can now quickly share images, regardless of provider or electronic health record.

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Teleradiology adoption spiked during COVID-19 and is likely to continue

A small survey found a majority of rad practices leveraged internal resources to complete outside exam interpretations and plan to continue to do so after the pandemic.

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Patient-centered care may require radiologists embrace structured, easy-to-read reporting

Volunteers of an online survey prefer structured chest radiograph reports with less jargony language, and radiologists should take note, experts said in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.