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.

Automated feedback helps radiologists learn from pathology results

Would an automated radiology-pathology feedback tool provide value for radiologists? Researchers developed one and studied its effectiveness, sharing their findings in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Radiologists not on same page when writing radiology reports

There is considerable variation among radiologists when choosing whether to include follow-up imaging recommendations in radiology reports, according to new findings published in Radiology.

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What causes variation in follow-up imaging recommendations among radiologists?

"It remains poorly understood how much radiologists vary when recommending additional imaging and what additional radiologists and other factors influence the likelihood of additional imaging," wrote authors of a new study published in Radiology.

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5 tips for producing patient-friendly radiology reports

Patients are now reading their own radiology reports on a regular basis. A new commentary published in Academic Radiology examined what this means for the specialty as a whole and how radiologists can work to still provide the very best patient care possible.

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Touchstone Medical Imaging fined $3M after cybersecurity breach

Franklin, Tennessee-based Touchstone Medical Imaging has agreed to pay the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $3 million to settle a 2014 security breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of more than 300,000 patients.

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University of Toronto, IMS to assess radiology resident performance with simulations

The University of Toronto’s Department of Medical Imaging has signed an agreement with International Medical Solutions (IMS) to use its IMS Web Viewer solution for assessing the performance of diagnostic radiology residents.

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Can the LI-RADS Treatment Response algorithm accurately assess HCC?

The 2017 Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) included an algorithm to assess hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated with local-regional therapy, but the method was never validated. A team of researchers took on the task, publishing their results April 30 in Radiology.

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CT post-processing method reduces radiation exposure to patients with bile duct stones

“If (virtual non-contrast) VNC images could provide comparable diagnostic performance in detecting biliary stone disease to (true non-contrast) TNC, we might replace TNC with VNC, and consequently, reduce the radiation dose,” wrote authors of a new study published in the European Journal of Radiology.