Search Tag: EMR
2025 31 Jul
Second opinions in radiology play a crucial role in clarifying diagnoses, guiding treatment and ensuring continuity of care—especially in complex cases or referrals to tertiary centres. However, these consultations are often managed through informal processes that hinder efficiency, accountability and reimbursement. Unstructured reporting, in1Read more
2025 31 Jul
Second opinions in radiology play a crucial role in clarifying diagnoses, guiding treatment and ensuring continuity of care—especially in complex cases or referrals to tertiary centres. However, these consultations are often managed through informal processes that hinder efficiency, accountability and reimbursement. Unstructured reporting, in1Read more
2025 18 Apr
The integration of electronic medical records (EMRs) into maternal healthcare is reshaping clinical decision-making and care delivery. Though initially developed as digital equivalents of paper records, EMRs have evolved to offer real-time decision support, streamlined workflows and improved data quality. Maternity care, which involves divers1Read more
2024 05 Jan
New, first-of-its-kind algorithm brings speed and precision to patient enrollment for a life-saving heart device trial Deep 6 AI, a leading AI-powered precision research platform for healthcare organizations and life sciences companies, announced its partnership with Graticule, an on-demand, advanced real-world data and advisory services pro1Read more
2021 01 Feb
KLAS and CHIME report on the state of EMR interoperability in 2020 outlining 10 interoperability trends that highlight areas of progress and opportunities for industry improvement. You might also like: How Far is the Future? Compared to the previous KLAS’ report on interoperability published in 2017, the d1Read more
2019 24 Jul
An Indonesian island is upping the innovation stakes with a healthcare Blockchain project for local citizens . Batam, located a short boat ride from Singapore, is working with a group of tech partners on a Public Healthcare Blockchain (PHB) , leveraging world-class data analytics tools at a secure data centre. You might also like: 1Read more
2019 18 Jul
Join us on August 12th at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST for a free community webinar event " Improving Intracranial Hemorrhage and Stroke Prioritization with End-to-End AI " with EnvoyAI and TeraRecon partner MaxQ AI. When is the webinar? August 12th at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST What will I learn? How integrated end-to-end AI workflows are delive1Read more
2019 17 Apr
The radiologist has always been considered the "doctor's doctor," advising referring clinicians. Recently there has been a shift in the care continue thrusting radiologists onto centre stage where they serve patients directly. The new norm in radiology is in the approach of patient-centred care . Physicians and healthcare providers 'team up' 1Read more
2019 03 Apr
Loathing your work, exhaustion, depersonalisation, feeling insignificant, struggling to find the will to get out of bed, addiction and suicide are symptoms of the growing global epidemic: burnout . Radiologists specifically experience high levels of burnout and this nasty trend is only getting worse. In a much needed effort to help address burn1Read more
2018 22 Sep
The EMR does not have to fail The much-maligned Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is not necessarily a tool which leads to physician burnout. The KLAS Arch Collaborative shows that proper training, personalisation and teamwork can optimise the use of this digital tool without stress and frustration. (For the purposes of this report, the te1Read more
2018 05 Jun
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra has been awarded a contract to install its enterprise imaging PACS throughout Sanford Health. The Sectra solution, integrated with the Epic EMR, will enable access and sharing of images and information across the entire clinical pathway. The Sectra platform will offer consiste1Read more
2018 31 May
TeraRecon today announced that its first-of-kind Northstar™ AI Explorer has reached a new milestone that allows physicians to interact with individual measurements, markings, and findings created by AI image processing algorithms. To demonstrate the potential of these AI-assisted workflows, the company is previewing an end-to-end cardiac MR anal1Read more
2018 25 Jan
Is the “Smart Hospital” a chance for change? Prof. Heinemann explains how futuristic and smart technologies that are used in preventive and diagnostic healthcare, are embedded in a new digital professionalism and quality. Artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostic radiology, robots in nursing and operating theatres, augmented and virtual r1Read more
2017 03 Jul
As a patient dedicated system, Proxima is always connected to the patient via their arterial line and ready to go instantly. Sphere Medical , an innovative company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, announces that its Proxima™ bedside blood gas monitoring system is compatible with Philips IntelliVue Patient Monitor1Read more
2017 02 Feb
Masimo announced today the limited market release of Early Warning Score (EWS) on the Root® patient monitoring and connectivity platform. EWS aggregates information from multiple vital signs and clinical observations to generate a score that represents the potential degree of patient deterioration. Root, which works in conjunction with Radical1Read more
2017 17 Jan
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that John Muir Health has purchased an archive to store radiology and cardiology studies in the cloud. All images in the enterprise will be archived in three geographically separate areas with fail-over capabilities. Integration with the Epic EMR will allo1Read more
2016 15 Nov
HNE have started their rollout of EMR, and DT Research and its partner HPA (Hospital Products Australia) have suppled 11 DT592BU Medical-Cart Computers to this Local Health District. They are currently utilizing their eMED carts for The Clinical Applications Portal or CAP as it is commonly known. A web based application which displays pati1Read more
2016 07 Mar
Integrated Medical Device Data Management Solution Designed to Fill the Gaps in Electronic Medical Records Masimo has announced the debut of Iris™ Gateway, a server-based software solution for integrating medical device data, at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Ve1Read more
2016 07 Mar
Masimo announced today FDA 510(k) clearance for noninvasive blood pressure and temperature measurements for the Root® patient monitoring and connectivity platform. Root with noninvasive blood pressure from SunTech Medical enables clinicians to measure arterial blood pressure for adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients, with three distinct measu1Read more
2016 29 Feb
Agfa HealthCare's ECM system brings together generic and clinical content management, process and business management, as well as document management workflows specifically designed for the clinical and non-clinical environment Complimentary to Enterprise Imaging Suite, ECM enables the sharing of medical images and documents with exis1Read more
2015 14 Oct
Many patients are willing to share and link their social media data with electronic medical record (EMR) data for research purposes, finds a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety . A databank that merges social media with EMR data may be able to provide insights about individuals’ health and health outcomes, accordi1Read more
2015 17 Sep
Better coordination of healthcare services helps to reduce costs and improve quality of patient care. While electronic medical records guide physicians through patient encounters and facilitate the required documentation for billing purposes, the records don't actively support true care coordination, according to an opinion piece for MedCity News 1Read more
2015 26 Aug
TeraRecon, (www.terarecon.com), a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise medical image viewing solutions, today announced leadership changes designed to strengthen the company and position it for the next phases of growth and solution development. Venkatraman Lakshminarayan, who served as CFO since 2005 and CEO since 2014, has stepped do1Read more
2015 09 May
Risks associated with ionising radiation exposure are greater in children due to their longer life span and greater radiosensitivity. The good news is that according to researchers the risk can be significantly reduced with just a little bit of education. The finding is from a new study, “Point-of-care estimated radiation exposure and imaging guide1Read more
2015 30 Apr
A new study shows that patients who undergo surgeries on weekends tend to have longer hospital stays and higher mortality and readmissions. The study was released at the American Surgical Association meeting in San Diego. There could be several reasons for the weekend effect which include reduced staffing and resources as well as fewer experien1Read more
2015 16 Apr
Bringing Connected Care and Enhancing Clinician Workflow from the Operating Room to the Medical and Surgical Unit Masimo announced the debut of Patient SafetyNet Series 5000™ along with Iris™ Connectivity and MyView™ through the Root ® patient monitoring and connectivity platform at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago. This1Read more
2015 12 Mar
Radboud University Medical Center in the first hospital in the Netherlands and the third in Europe to receive a Stage 7 Award by HIMSS Analytics Europe. The award recognises hospitals operating in a paperless environment and representing best practices in accordance with the European EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM). The other two Stage 7 hospitals in E1Read more
2015 09 Mar
The documentation of patient information can occupy as much as half of a clinician’s working day, despite scant evidence that all of the collected information is valuable. Many medical records departments continue to use paper charts, which are more convenient for documenting a patient’s story. Hospitals which have transitioned to electronic medic1Read more
2015 19 Jan
Researchers in New Hampshire have discovered that the implementation of an alert function in the electronic medical record (EMR) can inform physicians about the most up-to-date best practice guidelines. The EMR’s “best practice alert” allowed pathologists to remind physicians about the latest evidence at the moment of each transfusion order, which1Read more