Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics (also known as radiology informatics, a component of wider medical or healthcare informatics) includes systems to transfer images and radiology data between radiologists, referring physicians, patients and the entire enterprise. This includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), wider enterprise image systems, radiology information. systems (RIS), connections to share data with the electronic medical record (EMR), and software to enable advanced visualization, reporting, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, exam ordering, clinical decision support, dictation, and remote image sharing and viewing systems.

Amazon is acquiring One Medical in a $3.9 billion deal

Amazon marshals partners, providers behind major move into medical imaging

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services is expanding its 1½ -year-old HealthLake data-management service in two imaging-specific directions. In the process it’s drawing vocal buy-in from healthcare providers as well as imaging vendors.

November 16, 2022

Konica Minolta Healthcare to Extend Exa Platform to the Cloud with AWS

Wayne, NJ, November 15, 2022 – Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today it is working toward offering its leading cloud-based Exa® Platform and Symmetry® PACS as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model in the cloud. Konica Minolta is currently working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using Amazon HealthLake Imaging, now available in preview, and will use the security and scale of AWS to host the Exa Platform and Symmetry PACS. Using the cloud, healthcare organizations can be more flexible, agile and scalable as they efficiently deploy and manage software.

November 15, 2022

Konica Minolta Healthcare to Extend Exa Platform to the Cloud with AWS

Exa SaaS helps healthcare organizations be more flexible, agile and scalable in deploying and managing software.

November 15, 2022
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AI identifies breast lesion subtypes, could prevent unnecessary biopsies

In a new paper in Radiology, experts explain how the use of artificial intelligence to identify lesion subtypes could benefit both clinics and patients. 

November 3, 2022
Ricardo Cury, MD, MBA, MSCCT, chairman of radiology, direct of cardiac imaging, Baptist Health South Florida and Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, discusses the new CAD-RADS 2.0 cardiac imaging reporting criteria at the 2022 SCCT meeting. Interview with Radiology Business Editor Dave Fornell.

VIDEO: What is new with CAD-RADS 2.0 cardiac imaging reporting?

Ricardo Cury, MD, chairman of radiology and director of cardiac imaging, Baptist Health South Florida and Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, discusses the new CAD-RADS 2.0 cardiac imaging reporting criteria.

October 26, 2022

Through advanced imaging, 1000-year-old skeletons can tell us about socioeconomic status

Skeletal material from medieval burial sites in Norway shows that older adults with higher socioeconomic status also had greater bone mineral density and higher stature.


 

October 21, 2022
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MRI radiomics could change the future of breast cancer treatment

Radiomics methodologies could change how care plans are managed for patients with breast cancer by identifying those most likely to benefit from specific treatments.

October 19, 2022

University of Rochester Medical Center in the US selects Sectra Enterprise Imaging in the cloud

Linköping, Sweden and Shelton, CT – October 17, 2022– International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) will provide enterprise imaging as a cloud subscription service (Sectra One Cloud), throughout the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). This will allow the US health system scalability as enterprise imaging volumes grow, in a secure and fully managed cloud environment.

October 19, 2022