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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Elsevier’s decision support tool helps radiologists cut down on diagnostic errors

New research shows that STATdx, Elsevier’s new online diagnostic decision support tool, can reduce diagnostic errors by radiologists by 19 percent.

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Trainee radiologist reports account for 52% of all errors

More than one-third of the errors in radiologist reports are made after-hours by trainees and then confirmed by a consultant radiologist, even though after-hours reports accounted for only 18 percent of all reports, according to research published Sept. 13 in Clinical Radiology.  

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Pennsylvania health insurance company warns of security breach

A Pennsylvania health insurance company issued a notice following a security incident that exposed the private health information of some members.

Healthcare providers welcome speech recognition in EHR systems

Twenty-three percent of healthcare providers have no plans to adopt speech recognition into their electronic health records (EHR) system despite it being an “effective, proven tool,” according to a new report.

PACS users detail 6 pressing limitations of the technology

PACS has become one of the most important digital advancements in radiology, according to a Sept. 17 Journal of Digital Imaging study—but it is not without flaws.

Waystar to Acquire Connance, Expanding Powerful Revenue Cycle and Predictive Analytics Technology for Health Systems and Hospitals

The combination of Waystar’s claims management, revenue integrity, denial and appeal management, and payments solutions and Connance’s vendor management and payment optimization solutions strengthens the revenue cycle platform.

Overnight attending radiologists are handling more and more after-hours imaging—is that bad for radiology?

Many academic medical centers are shifting away from using radiology residents for after-hours imaging interpretations and turning to overnight attending radiologists instead, according to a new analysis published in Radiology.

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Opinion: EHRs are tools of Big Brother driving physicians away from medicine

Twila Brase—the president of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and healthcare policy advisor to the Heartland Institute, a libertarian thinktank—thinks electronic health records (EHRs) cause plenty of problems for physicians and patients. They contribute to burnout, distraction and inefficiencies.