Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

Sectra PACS was named Best in KLAS in 2022 based on customer feedback.

Hospitals share top health IT vendors to work with in the Best in KLAS 2022 list

KLAS Research's 2022 report covers more than 1,000 health IT informatics solutions focused on EMRs, staffing, revenue cycle management, patient portals, and more.

February 17, 2022
Google Cloud has launched three new healthcare accelerators, partnering up with health systems, to address common use cases around health equity, patient flow and value-based care.

Radiology leaders call on imaging community to create blueprint for digital image exchange by 2024

With technology now enabling seamless data transfer, it has become “unacceptable” to force patients and their families to hand-deliver images, experts charged in JACR.

February 1, 2022
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Geographic information systems a useful tool for population health planning in radiology

Providers have previously deployed such analytics tools in public health programs, but their use has been scarce in imaging, Johns Hopkins experts wrote in JACR

October 26, 2021
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Microsoft to acquire radiology vendor Nuance in $19.7B deal

Officials with the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant said healthcare artificial intelligence was a key piece of the blockbuster acquisition. 

April 12, 2021
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Providers and payers unite in blasting ‘hastily constructed’ CMS final rule to simplify prior authorization

The Medical Group Management Association called the legislation a "failure" for excluding fee-for-service Medicare and most commercial plans. 

January 18, 2021

Standardized reporting can elevate radiologists’ top product from single-use to reusable asset

In a talk during RSNA's annual meeting, one expert urged the specialty to forge its own path, before it's forced to follow others.

December 2, 2020

Ambra Health Offers Access to Medical Imaging with Epic Integrations

New capabilities use interoperability to enable patients and physicians alike to instantly access medical imaging. 

June 26, 2020
How radiology should prepare for AUC clinical decision support reporting requirements. CMS to require AUC CDS January 1, 2023.

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

April 28, 2020

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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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