EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available.

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Amy Thompson, a senior analyst at Signify Research, explains why radiology is rapidly adopting cloud data storage solutions.

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EMR/EHR

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

GPT-4 unlocks key insights from free-text radiology reports

Many physicians are unaware that interventional radiology is a distinct specialty

Closed-loop communication tool improves value of radiologists' recommendations

Cloud storage helps solve radiology IT and cybersecurity issues and is growing

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