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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Watchdog recommends extending incidental findings safety net to after-hours service following CT slipup

A contracted outside radiologist spotted an incidental liver lesion on the scan, but the concern was not addressed in a timely manner, according to a recently released report.

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Radiologists utilize novel CAD-RADS in 95% of coronary CTA reports

Massachusetts General Hospital doctors analyzed Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System usage in their high-volume cardiac CT services center for the study.

Enterprise Imaging Data Management: Why Your Strategy Must Include the Cloud

Sponsored by NetApp

Before the pandemic, hospitals were hesitant to embrace a cloud journey. Sure, some were using the cloud for research projects and used cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365, but use of the cloud for medical imaging data management was largely in its infancy. 

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HHS warns more than 275 million medical images are vulnerable due to unsecured PACS

Part of the problem also involves storing images via the DICOM format, which can be exploited to falsify scans, install malware and sabotage research.

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Radiologists can help drop unnecessary opioid prescriptions with low-cost imaging reporting change

Patients often visit their primary care provider for lower back pain, with imaging revealing no acute injury and only common signs of wear and tear, UW experts wrote recently.  

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6 ways blockchain could change radiology as we know it

The European Society of Radiology published a whitepaper detailing the power of this emerging distributed database technology in Insights into Imaging.

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Radiology reporting may be missing a crucial perspective—patient feedback

Researchers embedded a two-question survey into electronic health records at two institutions to gain insight into how consumers and providers view imaging reports.

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Hospital reduces radiology reporting disruptions, CT wait times with simple practice tweak

The academic imaging department found that plain computed tomography head scans produced numerous phone calls from referrers, pulling rads away from their work.