Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

Is your medical imaging data safe? 4.4M files exposed online, according to new report

More than two billion files—including approximately 4.4 million medical imaging files—have been exposed online across various storage technologies, according to a new report from Digital Shadows.

June 3, 2019

Imaging utilization for low back pain on the rise

Imaging utilization for low back pain by primary care providers has increased in recent years, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

May 23, 2019

Midwest Hospital Purchases Carestream’s Radiology PACS, Advanced Image Reading, Reporting Tools

Broadlawns Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa) purchased Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform (see video link) with features that include advanced visualization, mammography, 3D, lesion management, PET-CT applications and integrated voice recognition.

May 17, 2019

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.

May 8, 2019

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.

May 8, 2019

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.

May 6, 2019
Digital Lock

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.

May 6, 2019

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.

May 1, 2019

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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