Medical Imaging


Imaging technologies are highly advanced in the health care industry and have become commonplace in diagnosis and treatment. Yet managing and consolidating images in the contemporary clinical setting is a challenge. Read here about picture archiving systems, integration with electronic health records, image data standards, and storage and distribution issues across widespread networks.


McKesson Buys peerVue to Enhance Radiology Workflow

Joseph Goedert | Feb 09
McKesson Corp. has acquired peerVue Inc., a vendor of radiology workflow management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Hospitals
Vendor News

Contractor ManTech Enters Health Care via Evolvent Acquisition

Joseph Goedert | Jan 09
Government information technology contractor ManTech International Corp. has entered the health I.T. arena with an acquisition of fellow contractor Evolvent Technologies Inc. of Herndon, Va. Terms of the buy were not disclosed.
Payers
Vendor News

10 Tech Issues Meriting C-Level Attention

Joseph Goedert | Jan 03
A free report from research firm ECRI Institute details 10 technology issues that C-Level hospital executives should watch during 2012.
EHR
Hospitals

HDM Blog: Image Everything—Almost—at RSNA 2011

Jan 01
EHR
Stimulus

Fujifilm Spends Big to Acquire SonoSite

Joseph Goedert | Dec 15
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will acquire hand-held ultrasound manufacturer SonoSite Inc. for $995 million.
Mobile Technology
Vendor News

HIT Vendor Round-up: DiagnosisOne, Orion, PhoneFactor & McKesson

Joseph Goedert | Dec 09
Health information technology vendors have made several announcements in recent days, including:
Data Security
Decision Support

HIT Vendor Round-up: CGI, vRAD, Systematic & QuadraMed

Joseph Goedert | Dec 05
Health information technology vendors have recently announced new customer wins for their products and services. Among them:
Consumer Health
Data Security

Provider, Vendor Work to Put Images on NHIN

Joseph Goedert | Dec 01
Johns Hopkins Medicine and picture archiving and communication systems vendor Heart Imaging Technologies are working to make a Web-based PACS available on the Nationwide Health Information Network.
EHR
Health Info Exchange

An Appetite for Risk

Dec 01
Rasu Shrestha is not one to take the easy way.
Health Analytics
EHR

The Power of Radiology Decision Support

Gary Baldwin | Nov 30
Decision support tools embedded in electronic ordering systems can help improve appropriate utilization of imaging procedures.
Decision Support
EHR

Meaningful Use Creating a New Role for RIS?

Gary Baldwin | Nov 30
The radiology information system, or RIS, has long been the work horse of the imaging group practice, handling such functions as scheduling, demographics collection, even billing and results reporting. Now, under the meaningful use program, the RIS is taking on a new level of importance.
EHR
Policy & Regulation

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts

Gary Baldwin | Nov 29
If the Massachusetts effort to attain universal health coverage is any indication, then national health reform will certainly face roadblocks.
Policy & Regulation
Revenue Cycle Management

Small Step, Significant Savings

Gary Baldwin | Nov 29
Want to reduce I.T. operating costs? Prasanth Prasanna, M.D., offered RSNA attendees a simple solution: turn off computers and workstations.
Health Analytics
Policy & Regulation

Study Compares Physical and Cloud Exchange of Images

Joseph Goedert | Nov 29
As providers move to tightly coordinate patient care, they have to find ways to efficiently share patient information.
EHR
Health Info Exchange

Putting Image Sharing in Patient Hands

Joseph Goedert | Nov 29
Work continues on the building of an information network enabling patients to access, store and share their radiological images and reports, along with other information, via a personal health record.
Consumer Health
Decision Support
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