What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments. - Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2022: Which Vendors Are Delivering?
What You Should Know: - Many healthcare organizations are working to expand and mature their enterprise imaging (EI) strategies to bring together more facilities and service lines. At the same time, both vendors and healthcare organizations are experiencing staffing and budget constraints, leading to a host of financial and operational difficulties. In this environment, some vendors are surmounting challenges and providing the partnership and innovation customers need, while others are
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The Power of Strong Implementations: How HIT Vendors & Customers Can Lay A Foundation for Success
What You Should Know: - Health systems are increasingly working to get the most out of their IT investments. Focusing on a strong implementation can have a huge impact. Analysis of KLAS data gathered from 2018–2022 suggests that the quality of implementations may be more important than the technology selected. - The data primarily focuses on solutions that require complex, large-scale implementations (e.g., acute care EMRs, ERP solutions, patient accounting systems, and PACS solutions).
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Analysis: RSNA 2022: Predictions vs Reality
Much has already been written about attendance at RSNA, but from a first-hand perspective, RSNA 2022 could be regarded as a step back toward “normal”. Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”. Against this positive backdrop, however, the stark challenges facing radiology in a post-COVID world were
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RNSA22: Philips Unveils AI-Enhanced Informatics Solutions to Optimize Radiology Workflow
What You Should Know: - Today at RNSA22, Philips unveils its next-generation Advanced Visualization Workspace, including new cardiac MR Suite with new workflow and user interface, new AI powered CT ASPECT Scoring, and enhanced CT Liver Analysis applications. - New integrated diagnostic approach connects radiology, cardiology, pathology, and oncology to securely unite data and images across the enterprise, enabling earlier and more definitive diagnosis. Optimized algorithms help speed up
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RNSA22: Konica Minolta Transforms The Future of X-Ray in Latin America
What You Should Know: - Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas unveils KDR® Primary U-arm Digital Radiography (DR) and mKDR Xpress™ Mobile X-ray systems in select Latin American countries. - Chosen by numerous healthcare facilities throughout North America, the KDR Primary and mKDR Xpress will complement Konica Minolta’s existing portfolio of CR systems, DR retrofit solutions and PACS throughout the region. Additionally, both systems are designed for future integration of Dynamic
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Lunit, CARPL.ai Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Medical Imaging
What You Should Know: - Lunit signed a global distribution agreement to provide its AI-based radiology solutions for clinical use via CARPL.ai’s platform. Lunit is a South Korean-based AI software company devoted to developing AI solutions for precision diagnostics and treatment support, mainly focused on conquering cancer. - The partnership will deliver Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG for commercial use in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, India, and Singapore. CARPL
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PocketHealth Launches Tool for Sourcing Prior Diagnostic Imaging From Any Provider, Anywhere
What You Should Know: - PocketHealth, a patient-centric, no-network medical image-sharing platform launches Record Retrieval to solve challenges that hospitals and imaging centers face while requesting and retrieving prior imaging from patients, referring physicians, or healthcare sites. - Record Retrieval streamlines patient intake by creating an easy workflow that auto-imports data into PACS and fills the gaps left by CD-ROMs, VPNs and legacy networks. Challenges Sourcing &
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Patching Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust
When it comes to protecting patients from the impacts of ransomware, the time has come for the healthcare sector to rethink the way it approaches cyber resilience -- starting with Zero Trust strategies. The unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector has upended long-held assumptions about network security. Confidence in traditional methods alone and the philosophies behind them, have been undermined. The ransomware era has become a time of reckoning – particularly
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Google Cloud Launches AI-Powered Medical Imaging Suite
What You Should Know: - Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite that addresses common pain points organizations face in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. - Google Cloud enables the development of AI for imaging to support faster, more accurate diagnosis of images, increased productivity for healthcare workers, and improved care access and outcomes for patients. Google Cloud's Medical Imaging Suite Key Features Key features of the Medical
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