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.

Christopher Roth, MD, SIIM Town Hall. “Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

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“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

May 31, 2015

Agfa HealthCare debuts Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program at SIIM 2015

Agfa HealthCare announced today the launch of its Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program which establishes a secure health information exchange network between multispecialty collaborating health providers to exchange and share medical imaging data.

May 28, 2015

FUJIFILM completes acquisition of Teramedica, Inc.

Stamford, CT and Milwaukee, WI – May 13, 2015 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. today announced the completion of its acquisition of Teramedica, Inc., a global healthcare informatics company and a leading provider of vendor neutral, enterprise solutions. The acquisition will allow Fujifilm to offer the market a leading Vendor Neutral Archiving (VNA) technology.

May 13, 2015

McKesson introduces Conserus to help optimize imaging workflows and clinical effectiveness

ATLANTA, April 09, 2015 — McKesson announces Conserus™, a suite of flexible, vendor-neutral solutions for healthcare IT enterprise and diagnostic imaging. The Conserus suite includes flexible quality and communication Workflows, Enterprise Worklists driven by clinical and business logic, an Enterprise Image Repository and a Clinical Data Exchange.

April 16, 2015

Sectra launches solution for digital primary diagnostics in pathology—enabling more efficient cancer care

Sectra (STO: SECT B) is launching a solution for storing, viewing and sharing digital pathology images. The solution enables more efficient cancer care by enhancing collaboration and sharing of images between pathologists and radiologists.

April 14, 2015

Aycan celebrates 10 years of OsiriX platform technology evolution

Rochester, NY, March 16, 2015.  Aycan, a recognized global leader in medical imaging, is celebrating ten years of technology investment and innovation in the OsiriX platform, which they’ve helped evolve to now include advanced integration capabilities, a service organization, applications, and plug ins designed to improve productivity and patient care.

March 16, 2015

FUJIFILM presents next generation echocardiography structured reporting with latest version of Synapse® at ACC

Stamford, C.T., March 4, 2015 (Booth #623) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., will demonstrate the next generation of echocardiography structured reporting , with the latest version of Synapse Cardiovascular 6.0*and Synapse 3D 4.1 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 64th Annual Scientific Session & Expo on March 14 -16 in San Diego, CA.

March 6, 2015
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FUJIFILM receives ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR certification for Synapse RIS

Stamford, C.T., February 24, 2015 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. has received ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR certification for Synapse RIS Version 6.3.3., which designates that the software is capable of supporting Eligible Professionals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

February 24, 2015

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