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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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.

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Radiology interest groups urge Congress to delay implementation of imaging appropriate-use criteria

Several imaging industry lobbying groups are continuing to press national lawmakers to provide relief for radiology practices hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Radiology vendor Change Healthcare sells analytics business line for $55M

In the nine months ending Dec. 31, Connected Analytics generated about $48.6 million for the Tennessee-based tech company, or about 2.5% of its earnings. 

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Employer-sponsored healthcare operator beefing up COVID measures with partner’s predictive analytics

A company offering healthcare and wellness services to its clients’ employees is partnering with a neighboring company specialized in predictive data analytics to blunt the impact of COVID-19 on those same employees.

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5 guidelines for navigating COVID-19 disruptions in IR education

Three imaging experts have fleshed out the “need-to-knows” of COVID-19’s impact on teachers and trainees in their specialty, interventional radiology.  

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Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

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Experts introduce CO-RADS as standardized way to assess CT imaging of COVID-19 patients

The COVID-19 Reporting and Data System is based on previous efforts at standardization and has logged solid results thus far, experts from the Dutch Radiological Society reported.