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.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has helped cardiologists, radiologists, nurses and other healthcare providers embrace precision medicine in a way that ensures more heart patients are receiving personalized care.

AI helps cardiologists deliver personalized healthcare—but there is still plenty of work to do

A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association explores the many ways AI and machine learning are being used to improve care for heart patients.

March 7, 2024
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Cardiologists partner with imaging AI specialists to improve care for high-risk heart patients

The new collaboration is designed to ensure patients who may face an increased risk of heart disease receive the follow-up care they need.

February 29, 2024
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New American College of Cardiology registry focuses on data from outpatient ambulatory surgical centers

The ACC launched its latest registry knowing that volumes at these outpatient facilities are expected to rise in the years ahead. 

February 13, 2024
Merative Merge Hemo being demonstrated to attendees at the America College of Cardiology (ACC) 2023 meeting. The system was ranked the best hemodynamic system by end-users in the 2023 "Best in KLAS" ratings. Photo by Dave Fornell

Best in KLAS 2024: New rankings for cardiovascular information systems, hemodynamic solutions

Hospital end users ranked the CVIS and hemodynamic systems they use, shedding light on their working relationships with IT vendors. 

February 8, 2024
Video of Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explaining how the Best in KLAS rates for health informatics vendors are created.

How are the best in KLAS Health IT vendor rankings created?

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.
 

October 4, 2023
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Salaries and job satisfaction in cardiology: 8 takeaways from a new survey of cardiologists and their colleagues

The 2023 Cardiovascular Business Salary and Job Satisfaction Report is here! We surveyed cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, nurses, service line mangers, coders and others in the industry about several topics, including compensation, burnout, EHRs and much more.

July 10, 2023
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Cardiology group faces class-action lawsuit after cyberattack exposed patients’ personal data

Patients learned that their names, social security numbers, banking numbers and credit card information were all potentially exposed as a result of the attack.

June 27, 2023

Cardiology group hit by cyberattack, exposing data of nearly 182,000 patients

Patient names, addresses, social security numbers and even medical histories were exposed as a result of the attack, which went unnoticed for more than two months. 

June 16, 2023

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Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

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