Storing medical images in the cloud makes distribution faster for patients who want to share images with their physicians, regardless of where the physician is located, according to a preliminary report on the Radiological Society of North America's Image Share project presented April 30 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Vancouver.
Merge Healthcare has released Merge Honeycomb Archive, an image archiving application available within its cloud-based platform.
As radiology slips further toward commoditization, providers need to find ways to add value to their services using health IT, which means improving the translation of medical imaging IT innovations from the research lab to the clinical environment, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, medical director, enterprise imaging, at University of Chicago Hospitals.
Having access to patients' laboratory test results influences the decision-making process regarding the ordering of further tests, which supports the predictions of financial savings made in the health information exchange (HIE) cost-benefit models, according to an article published in the March 26 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.
LAS VEGAS—Cloud-based image management can help deliver improved real-time access to medical images anywhere and on any device, Andrew J. Lee, PhD, chief scientist, Harris Healthcare Solutions in Melbourne, Fla., said Feb. 22 at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Mach 7 Technologies (Booth 1276), a developer of clinical image management systems, is introducing Keystone Suite, an enterprise clinical imaging platform (ECIP), at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas Feb. 20-24.
Peake Healthcare Innovations, a joint venture between Harris and Johns Hopkins Medicine, has launched PeakeSecure cloud archiving platform, a managed service that seeks to assist healthcare providers with storing and managing medical images and related healthcare information.
John D. Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, seems to be taking a bit of flak for a recent assertion dubbing DICOM a "non-standard standard."
The Florida State Senate has refused to consider HB 1329, which would have required imaging centers, along with other healthcare providers, to publish and post a schedule of charges for services provided to patients paying out of pocket, effective Jan. 25.
Performing CT scans in the emergency department (ED) for patients experiencing dizziness may not be worth the expense, according to a study conducted at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and presented Jan. 26 at the Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting in Miami.
Speech recognition IT vendor M*Modal has entered into a partnership with Merge Healthcare, an enterprise imaging IT vendor.
My Medical Images, a newly-released DICOM viewer application (app) from Peridot Technologies, allows users to browse, load and share medical images from their Microsoft HealthVault accounts with friends, family or physicians.
Siemens Healthcare has joined with Lammers Medical Technology to offer the nomag IC MR diagnostics incubator system for the transport of newborns and premature babies as an add-on to Siemens’ 1.5T and 3T MR systems.
A discussion of radiation risks from medical imaging procedures should be accompanied by acknowledgement of the benefits of a given imaging procedure, according to the “Message of the Month” for December 2011, posted on the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) website.
The FDA has cleared Riverain Technologies Temporal Comparison x-ray software.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., has placed an order to upgrade its existing PACS to the latest version of Carestream’s Vue PACS.
Fujifilm Medical Systems unveiled advances across its imaging and informatics product lines at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. The company also announced that clinical trials of its 3D digital mammography system are slated to begin in the U.S.
As patient access to imaging data increases with the adoption of online patient portals, direct communication of study results to patients could provide an opportunity to improve patient satisfaction and reassert the importance of the physician-patient relationship in radiology, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Visage Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus, has been selected by Central Illinois Radiological Associates to begin installation of the Visage 7 enterprise imaging platform.
The Cleveland Clinic has installed Agfa HealthCare’s Impax 6.5, the latest version of the software, as the network’s PACS.
