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How AI Supports And Accelerates Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making an impact in most major industries today. While there is a long way to go before all the possibilities of AI are exhausted or even realized (including the many dreams and nightmares of science fiction), AI is currently most adept at helping to improve and accelerate workflows for researchers and healthcare professionals.
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Back to Basics: Viewer Configuration Series Pt. 3
Welcome back to the Back to Basics blog – you have made it to Part 3 of the Ambra Viewer
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Three Imaging Trends to Watch for in 2020
Will the 2020s be the roaring twenties of healthcare? There is much that remains to be seen as many questions loom over the real efficiency level of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, patient control over data and its usage, and interoperability across vendors.
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Back to Basics: Viewer Configuration Series Pt. 2
Welcome to Part 2 of the Ambra Viewer Back to Basics blog! Now that we have a handle on configuring general customizations, we will take a deeper dive into the Viewer’s toolbar.
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Social Media Tips for Radiologists
As a marketing and PR specialist, I can’t say that I ever thought I would be giving an academic presentation
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Back to Basics: Viewer Configuration Series Pt. 1
Ambra’s goal is for users to feel confident in customizing their viewing configurations based on their unique preferences and workflows. In this three part BTB series, we are going to review some simple recommendations on how to tailor the Viewer to meet your workflow needs.
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Preventive Cancer Screenings Are Becoming Too Lax
The most common cancer screenings and tests, all of which are recommended by the American Cancer Society, include mammograms (for breast cancer) and screenings for colorectal cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, and prostate cancer. These are screenings that have all been found to save lives by detecting dangerous cancers early.
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Back to Basics: The Activities Queue
Ambra knows there are cases when customers want to edit studies and/or preview them before they accept them into their Ambra account or send them to their PACS. For this purpose, Ambra has created the activities queue. Once logged into your Ambra account, the main panel includes an “Activities” tab where users can ensure studies are organized for their organization’s needs.
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Remote Patient Monitoring Brings Healthcare To Your Home
Using monitoring equipment, a healthcare provider can keep tabs on a patient's clinical data. Glucose meters, ECGs and blood pressure monitors are among the most common types of RPM equipment used, but the array of available technologies is rapidly expanding.
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Those of us at Ambra hope everyone has a great holiday and we send our best wishes. As we prepare for Thanksgiving this week, there is one thing we are all grateful for—RSNA!
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Wearables And Hearables Increasingly Have A Role In Patient Treatment Plans
The concept of wearable technology that could advance the user’s health goals really caught fire with the popularity of smart devices like the Apple Watch, which boasted the ability to track the wearer’s steps and heart rate when it was first released in 2015. But with each passing year, new wearables emerged and existing ones developed more impressive features.
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Back to Basics: Actions in Ambra
It’s no surprise that customers want to avoid platforms with 20 steps for a simple action. In the Ambra Health platform, actions are only a few quick steps leading to an user-friendly experience with little to no learning curve.
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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Early detection, low dose screening, and increased awareness are leading to improved experiences for lung cancer patients.
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October is Breast Health Awareness Month. This means not only identifying risk factors and diagnosis statistics but also recognizing the tools that improve the patient experience, diagnosis, and care. Early detection, better screening, increased awareness, and new treatment options have led to earlier diagnoses and better care for breast cancer patients.
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Back to Basics: Customizing Your Ambra Viewer
Feeling permanently tethered to your workstation? The Ambra zero-footprint, web-based HTML5 DICOM Viewer is FDA 510(k) cleared per FDA regulations and can be used through any web browser— freeing you to access images from anywhere.
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Caregivers: Supporting And Learning From Our Most Valuable Human Resource
Whether standing next to a patient receiving a difficult diagnosis or spending countless hours by a hospital sickbed, these vigilant caregivers are often mistakenly seen by doctors and other healthcare workers as simply “the family.”
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A Day in the Life of Ambra Health Support
A recent interview with Rebecca Schankerman, Ambra Health Field Marketing Coordinator, and Melissa Lam, Ambra Health Consultant, about the day in the life of Ambra's support team.
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Back to Basics: Patient Image Sharing
There is nothing worse than a patient coming to an appointment and the facility not having their imaging easily available and ready for the appointment. Follow these simple steps to ensure patients won’t have to come back for another appointment or drive out of their way to pick up a CD.
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The New Rules of Ambulatory Surgery Competition
Hospitals and health systems are seeing massive growth in the lucrative and highly competitive market for ambulatory surgery. How can organizations implement an ASC strategy to compete against new and traditional competitors?
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Diversity Is Severely Lacking Among Clinical Trial Participants — How Can We Solve This Problem?
Although the general public may not be aware of the extent of the problem, this disturbing underrepresentation is well-known in the research community, which has been trying for some time to address the issue.
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Back to Basics: Logging in and Uploading Studies
Ambra knows how challenging it can be to get up and running on a new platform. That’s why we designed
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Welcome to Ambra Health's new blog series "Back to Basics." Every few weeks we will post useful tips and tricks on different Ambra product features to help you navigate the platform like a pro. With our customers in mind, we'll highlight key insights and must-know information to guide you in the right direction.
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Become Fool Proof with CaptureProof
This is a guest blog post from one of Ambra's partners, CaptureProof. CaptureProof allows patients to record their health trends through photos and videos and instantly and securely share them with their physician.
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The Patient Portal: Giving People Control Over Their Health Data
The focus of most digital transformations taking place across the health industry is to make health care truly patient-centric. The rapid adoption and implementation of disruptive technologies, such as the cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, continue to accelerate in health care. A common theme running through this disruption is making patients a meaningful part of the health care process.
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Improving Patient Safety & Security with the Cloud
We have come a long way, but there is still much uncertainty revolving around “the cloud” in healthcare. Many organizations hesitate about switching away from their current systems to a cloud-based structure. Cloud technology can offer many benefits to health organizations, including, most importantly, improvements in patient care and safety.
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Don’t Get Caught in the Storm. What is Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
The healthcare industry is constantly innovating and growing due to the rapid technological advances of the 21st century. With EHR’s (Electronic Health Records), and a growing interoperable network becoming more prevalent, it is hard-pressed to find a hospital that isn’t trying to stay up to date with the latest technology. As good as the healthcare industry gets when everything is right, we need healthcare IT to work its best when everything goes wrong.
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Upgrade your Phone, Upgrade Your TV, Upgrade Your Patient Care
When people talk about technology growth in recent years, everyone thinks of cell phones and computers because they are so prevalent in our everyday lives. There has been exponential growth in technology, but one area that is commonly forgotten and is severely lacking is the healthcare industry. For example, why are we still using CDs when it comes to something vitally important to us; our health?
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Can’t Find Your Patients in the Office? Check the Cloud!
Millennials’ preferences are shaping the new physician-patient relationship. A recent Business Insider article described how millennials currently comprise roughly 30% of the US population and their wants and needs are shaping a multitude of other industries such as retail, transportation, and healthcare. Millennials are a tech-savvy group interested in gaining multi-channel access to their healthcare just like they have in adjacent industries.
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Take a look at a personal story from one of Ambra's Sales Development Representatives on how health IT impacted her life.
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Why the Cloud is Necessary for 21st Century Healthcare
In the age of Amazon Prime and Uber Eats, traditional processes in healthcare -- getting a call to hear back about your lab results or waiting 3-5 business days to pick up a CD with your images -- seem painfully antiquated. Twenty-first-century healthcare requires methods that mirror the technology and accessibility consumers experience day-to-day.
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Incorporating Diverse Data Types in Clinical Trials
Working together, vendors and facilities can establish strategies for gathering real-world evidence, including imaging and diverse data, successfully.
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Personalized Medicine: The Trend That’s Sweeping Health Care
From cloud-based medical imaging platforms to artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics, health care continues to be the epicenter of digital innovations that are geared toward boosting patient care. Personalized medicine is another new wave sweeping health care with the dual objectives of achieving more meaningful patient-to-doctor relations and lowering costs.
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Patient Awareness Opens Lines of Communication in Radiology
Why do incidental findings go unreported? The first reason is due to a lack of patient awareness. Their physician may verbally tell them their results, but they may never review the report themselves. A physician may fail to disclose all the information if incidental findings are not dire news; they may worry that they are burdening the patient with too much information. However, it is a patient’s right to be fully aware of their own health and new regulation may soon make that law.
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Ambra Health Partners with AWS to Expand Medical Imaging Platform
Morris Panner, CEO of Ambra Health, shares exciting details on the partnership between Ambra Health and Amazon Web Services in this video.
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How Health IT Infrastructure Affects Patient Outcomes
In today’s post, we are going to focus on IT infrastructure and the role it can play in the patient outcome. Healthcare organizations have gone decades without modernizing their IT infrastructure which is unfathomable compared to other industries like banking, cell phone networks, and many more.
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Let’s stop wasting physician, administrator, and patient time with CDs. It is time to #DitchTheDisk and move to the Cloud.
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Getting More Women Speakers in Radiology and Informatics
“Diverse representation in radiology is critical to effectively addressing the needs of our diverse patient population. Organizations should be thinking about this as they craft their agendas and panels,” said McGinty.
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Image Enable HIEs to Streamline Patient Care
When it comes to sharing reports and notes on a patient, HIEs are a great resource, but where do a patient’s medical images go? In cases of serious illness, medical imaging is often a critical part of the overall diagnosis. Only a small portion of U.S.-based HIEs have incorporated an image exchange component into their data sharing abilities, yet the sharing of diagnostic imaging holds great promise for patient outcomes and efficiency.
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Encouraging Patient Portal Use
You've finally established a patient portal at your medical practice. It's what your patients have said they wanted, and you can't wait to see it put to use. Yet, a few months go by, and the portal doesn't seem to have many logins. What is going on? How can you actually encourage patients to use the patient portal?
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Six Ways To Lower Errors — And Unnecessary Surgeries — In Radiology Exams
Diagnostic errors are an indication of poor patient care. According to research conducted by Johns Hopkins University, over 250,000 (or 10%) of all U.S. deaths are due to medical errors. Radiology plays a key role in the diagnostic process for many patients.
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Telehealth & Mobile Tools Improve Outcomes for Patients & Providers
The core goal of any telehealth tool or initiative is to break down traditional barriers associated with geography to enable access to premier healthcare services rapidly. When we think of geography, we tend to think of wide ranges, sometimes even as wide as countries or continents. However, breaking down geography can even include the drive or subway ride between a provider and their office.
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Healthcare And Baby Boomers: Tech Adoption Is The Key To Better Outcomes
By 2050 there will be 83.7 million people aged 65 and older, almost double the 43.1 million seniors in 2012. Such a dramatic increase is expected to have a huge impact on the healthcare industry, not only due to the sheer numbers but also because of the rapidly declining health of those over the age of 65.
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3 Things to Expect at SIIM 2019
At SIIM19 prepare to hear about exploring new ways to use data, engaging with patients, and empowering one another.
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Blockchain In Healthcare: How It Could Make Digital Healthcare Safer And More Innovative
Digital healthcare trends are largely driven by the need for better patient care, faster and more accurate analysis, and on-demand access to medical data. The pace of innovation in digital healthcare began gaining momentum with artificial intelligence (AI), and it is set to further accelerate as the industry turns to blockchain technology.
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Taking the Complication out of Imaging Records
Cloud vendors can come together to create holistic solutions. Integrating imaging within the EHR eliminates the need to login to separate systems and toggle between browsers. With cloud-based solutions, system upgrades, maintenance, and storage are standard and managed by the vendors which allow physicians to focus more time on patients.
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Physician Burnout Can Be Fatal. Does Artificial Intelligence Offer Hope?
Doctors have the highest suicide rates among all professions. Is technology the reason or the answer?
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Why Your Healthcare Organization Should #DitchtheDisk
It’s astonishing to think that the visual patient health record is still managed on this dinosaur of technology.
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AI In Health Care Is Not About Replacing Humans
AI and machine learning are set to expand, and health care is poised to witness an unprecedented explosion of AI use cases.
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The 21st Century Cures Act & The Future of Enterprise Imaging
A recent interview with Catherine Slotnick, Ambra Health Senior Marketing Manager, and Cheryl Petersilge, M.D., M.B.A., Founder and CEO of Vidagos Advisors which focuses on the future of enterprise imaging.
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The Information Highway To Connected Health Care
Digital data silos keep providers in the dark, hindering their ability to dispense care.
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Five Ways Millennials Do Health Care Their Own Way
Millennials are more inclined than baby boomers to research health care online. These relatively well-educated 20- and 30-somethings compare treatment options and check quality ratings of doctors and hospitals.
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Opportunity and Concern — A New World of Patient Data
The opportunities for positive outcomes are endless, but facilities must make transparency and patient control core institutional values as they move forward.
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Radiology Mergers Create New Obstacles for Practices
Once the imaging stack has been reevaluated and restructured, the question remains, how do these mergers affect patients?
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The US healthcare system has its own Tower of Babel problem. If you don’t recall this biblical tale, it’s a
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Cancer Treatment Costs Imperil Patients
Cancer patients face many tough choices about their care, yet one of the most gut-wrenching may be whether to undergo high-priced treatment that could save their life but impoverish their family.
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Improving Access to Life Saving Transplants
Today is World Kidney Day. Did you know that chronic kidney disease affects 1 in 10 people worldwide? A few
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Radiology Rolls With The Cloud
This article originally appeared on Forbes on March 1, 2019. Let’s face it: People don’t always obtain the health care
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#HIMSS19 : Interoperability Across Healthcare Still Needs Improvement
It seems like AI was the talk of the town at every healthcare conference we attended in 2018. However, at
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HIMSS19 is just a few days away, and our team couldn’t be more excited to get some sunshine and check
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Adding Phone Numbers to Radiology Reports: Patient Centered Care
Radiologists are elusive to patients. Although they play a critical component in the healthcare trajectory of any individual, many patients will never come into direct contact with one. However, we know that patients do in fact want to interact with radiologists. Many studies have highlighted an interest among patients to hear results not only from their referring physician but also the radiologist, particularly in cases of complex diagnosis.
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A Shift in Archiving: Cloud VNA For Disaster Recovery and More
This article was written by Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health and originally appeared on FierceHealthcare.com on January 28, 2019. It
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Reducing Imaging Volumes While Retaining Value
A recent article on the JAMA website is causing waves as it at calls for less medical imaging in the
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How Mobile Medical Services Are Improving Health Care
This article by Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, originally appeared on Forbes on January 16, 2019. The mobile revolution has
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Bringing The Data To Where The Patient Is
This article was originally published on Forbes on December 28, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to the Forbes
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2019 Healthcare Predictions: 10 Trends to Watch in the New Year
The Ambra Health team shares our top healthcare trends and imaging predictions for 2019.
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Real-World Health Data Push Brings Challenges And Opportunities
This article was originally published on Forbes on December 12, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to the Forbes
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4 Things We Shared at RSNA 2018
If you attended the RSNA Annual Meeting last week, there’s a good chance that your feet are still sore from
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Health Data Meets Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
This article was originally published on Forbes on Nov 21, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to
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Bringing Radiology Access to Lao Friends Hospital for Children
This is a guest blog post by Ambra Health’s Erin McGee, Manager, Professional Sevices. Erin spent two weeks in Laos
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RSNA Trends: What to Expect at the Show
Missed our webinar? Read the recap here as panelists from Johns Hopkins, South Baptist Health Florida, and Ambra Health share their insights.
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This article originally appeared in Radiology Today Vol. 19 No. 10 P. 16 and is written by By Beth W. Orenstein. At a
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Artificial Intelligence Makes Waves in Breast Cancer Research & Awareness
We’re excited to share an interview with Dr. Mark Traill, who is the owner of MammoBot LLC. Mammobot is a
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Medical Imaging : Competing in an Era of Price Transparency
Ambra Health was joined by Erin Lane of the Advisory Board to discuss consumerism and imaging pricing strategy during a
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October is Breast Health Awareness Month. This means not only identifying risk factors and diagnosis statistics but also recognizing the tools that improve the patient experience, diagnosis, and care.
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Patient Portals: Bridging the Gap Between Physicians and Patients
Forward-thinking physicians and healthcare administrators see patient portals as an ideal route to engage patients and create a ‘patient-centered’ experience.
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Redesigning Hospitals to Promote Better Health
Loud and cluttered hospital rooms slow down patient recovery.
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Revisiting the 21st Century Cures Act
This is the third blog post in our National Health IT Week series. As the two year anniversary of the
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When Healthcare Data Meets Natural Disasters
This is the second blog post in our #NHITweek series. You can check out the first one here. As hurricane season
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It’s National Health It Week! This week, Ambra team members will be sharing some of the unique insights they’ve gained
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Practical Considerations in AI Application
As artificial intelligence and machine learning gain more traction in radiology, how can facilities be sure to appropriately evaluate new tools?
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Medical imaging is a very necessary but very expensive piece of the healthcare puzzle. So, what happens when a patient
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What is imaging’s role in stroke care? Strokes are a leading cause of disability in the United States and can cause
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Cloud-based PACS System Cuts Imaging Costs by Half for Rural Hospital
This article by Bill Siwicki was originally published on Healthcare IT News on August 14, 2018. Republic County Hospital in
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Telehealth : Overcoming the Obstacle of Geography
Telehealth is an emerging method of medical care that takes advantage of technological developments in communication among providers and between
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Back to Cloud Basics: Image-Enabling the EHR
EHR systems are often missing a critical component of patient care - medical images. In this blog post we examine image-enabling the EHR.
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Does Your Practice Have a Patient Friendly Website?
During Ambra Health’s most recent webinar, Providers Go All in, Ambra Marketing Designer Becky Kinkead shared her best practices for
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Medical Images: The Only Photos Not in the Cloud?
This article by Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health was originally posted on ai-med.io on July 20, 2018. We share a
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Back to Cloud Basics: Vendor Neutral Archiving
Ready for part 4 in our Back to Basics blog series? Last week, we defined Cloud PACS, and today we’re discussing – Cloud-based vendor neutral archiving.
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Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey : 3 Takeaways
The latest Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey conducted by the Advisory Board provides a needed lens into the perspective of how cancer
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Patient-Centered Care in Radiology
Today’s patients are truly consumers and have more access to information than ever before. However, patient-centered care has not been
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Back to Cloud Basics: Cloud-based PACS
Ready for part 3 in our cloud image management 101 series? Last week, we defined medical image viewers, discussed the
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Pediatric Medical Image Management
U.S. News & World Report recently released its “Best Children’s Hospital” rankings, which names the 10 best children’s hospitals in the country and the
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Back to Cloud Basics: Medical Image Viewers
Time for part 2 in our cloud image management 101 series. Last week, we defined medical image exchange, discussed the
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Back to Cloud Basics: Medical Image Exchange
Have you ever been in a situation where you never asked what something was and now it is far too
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The Role Humans Will Play in the AI Transformation of Healthcare
There is much talk about how AI will radically transform healthcare, using big data – our data – to find
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SIIM 2018 Recap: Collaboration in Medical Imaging
Ambra Health has been attending the annual SIIM conference for quite a few years now, and we always look forward
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Future Trends : Who Will Be Your Doctor?
Who will be your doctor in the future? When we think of “doctor,” we usually picture someone wearing a white
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I am guilty of a few things – being a millennial, working for a cloud-based Health IT company, and watching
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Panel on Outside Image Management with Cincinnati Children’s and MD Anderson
We couldn’t say it any more clearly than Dr. Alexander J. Towbin, “CDs suck!” Leading healthcare facilities are expanding at a
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What do medical images, Google, Amazon, EHRs, and patient portals have in common? They were all a key part of
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As we prepare for HIMSS 2018, we are excited about the great food, casinos, and fun times to see the latest
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Thought Leaders from the Mayo Clinic & UCSF Share Imaging Trends to Expect in 2018
With changing patient preferences, expanding provider networks, and tech titans like Google and Apple moving into the healthcare realm, 2018
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Technology Report: Enterprise Imaging
ITN Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr offers an overview of enterprise imaging advances at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
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SIIA Company CODiE Winner | Start-Up Company of The Year – Ambra Health
This post was originally published on SIIA by Rhianna Collier, VP for the Software Division at SIIA. SIIA’s TechChats provides a
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Why Imaging Isn’t Just for Radiology
If medical imaging was a category on family feud, radiology and radiologist would be among the first answers given by
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What Are Most HIEs Missing? Medical Imaging
It is estimated that out of roughly 300 HIEs that exist today, less than 2 percent support medical images. The
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Telemedicine: Solving the Issue of Healthcare Access?
One of the gravest problems in U.S. health care is equitable access. That’s why we listed an increased adoption of
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Start the New Year off Right! Resolutions for a Small Practice
CDs were first invented in 1982, the same year Michael Jackson released ‘Thriller’ and 2 years before the first cell
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2018 Healthcare Predictions: 10 Trends to Watch in Imaging
2018 will bring an advanced pace to the digital transformation of the healthcare industry. Changing consumer preferences, provider consolidation, and
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Much like the holidays, RSNA is an event we anticipate with great excitement and then is over in a whirlwind.
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At Ambra We’re Grateful for.. RSNA!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We here at Ambra hope everyone has a great holiday and send our best wishes. As we
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3 Cloud Benefits for Enterprise Systems
The enterprise health system, a conglomeration of top providers, business administrators, and a force of other employees all focused on
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Saving Time, Saving Money – A Real Use Case with Jupiter Orthopedics & Ambra
The problems that Dr. Wade Van Sice and his team were running into at Jupiter Orthopedics & Sports Medicine were
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Image Access for Breast Cancer Patients
We’ve featured stories on the importance of patient access to medical imaging before, but in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness
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Optimizing Imaging Informatics & Radiology Operations
Informatics is a fast growing discipline within healthcare as new technology and increased amounts of patient data converge. But how
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Should Patients Have Access to Medical Imaging?
From generation to generation, we’re seeing healthcare consumers increasingly yearning to be more informed about their health outcomes. While some
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The 3 Pieces of Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster recovery often remains forgotten on the never-ending to-do list of healthcare. When we say “disaster,” natural disaster comes to
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As a mother of two, home health caretaker for the elderly, and Sunday school teacher for kids with special needs,
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Medical Management and the Millennial Manifesto
*Click* … *Click* *Click* *Click* – I, a self-admitted millennial, pitter-patter away on the illuminated screen of my cell phone. In
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My First 60 Days in the Healthcare Industry
“I work for a healthcare IT company.” That’s my classic response to the “what are you doing these days?” question
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Rent Apartment, Buy Couch, Find Doctor?
Noteworthy new restaurants, must-see music venues, emerging art museums: this was the to-do list I initially had planned when thinking
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A Netflix Style Personal Health Record
You’re a parent. You have a 10 year old son. Want to keep track of what he’s watching? Easy. You
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Despite Progress, Nearly 1 In 3 Patients Cannot Easily Access Medical Records
We recently conducted a survey of over 1,100 U.S. adults on consumer healthcare behavior that showed the industry lagging on technology – with nearly 1 in 3 patients reporting they can not easily access their medical records.
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A Practical Blueprint to Build a Future-Proof Image Management Strategy
Across leading facilities, we frequently hear the same common struggles around image management. CDs still act as the primary method
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What the Cloud Means for Medical Groups & Practices
The “cloud” is a term that’s been around for quite awhile now, and applications like deconstructed PACS, cloud PACS, and
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It seems like AI is everywhere this Summer. But what does it mean in the world of healthcare? How is
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C-Suite Q & A with Ambra Health’s Morris Panner
This two part interview series with Ambra Health’s CEO Morris Panner & Ryan Black originally appeared on Healthcare Analytics News
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Ambra Health CEO Morris Panner Appears on Cheddar
Live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, appeared on Cheddar to discuss
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Innovate from Within: Unlock Medical Imaging as a Data Asset
Leading healthcare providers across the globe place a constant focus on innovation around all aspects of the care continuum. Medical
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Just like the rapid evolution of the EHR, patient portals have become the norm for providers and patients alike. Along
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Unlocking Imaging’s Strategic Advantage
In a live special webinar event, Ambra Health CMO, Mini Peiris, was joined by Miriam Sznycer-Taub of the Advisory Board who shared how the key to enterprise "systemness" can and should start within imaging departments.
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RADxx TweetChat brings in 70 leaders for discussion about mentorship for women in radiology
Welcome to the 2nd #RADxx tweet chat recap! We thought it was impossible to keep up with the last tweet
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What Boomers, Cloud Technology & Consumerism Mean for Healthcare
Our iPhones can do a lot, but they still can’t diagnose patients (although Google and WebMD may have some convinced
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Should You Have a Mentor, a Sponsor, or Both?
This is a guest blog post by imaging and informatics thought leader, Dr. Geraldine McGinty. Dr. McGinty was Chair of the ACR’s
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3 Ways to Innovate Your Imaging Technology
Ambra Health was joined on a live webinar event by Blackford Analysis, DiACardio, and Realize for a panel discussion and offered demos of their forward thinking imaging technologies, each of which provides a way to innovate part of your imaging technology workflow.
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Can Cloud-Based Archiving Cure Your Security Headaches?
This article originally appeared on March 22, 2017 on auntminnie.com Longstanding U.S. healthcare regulations have enforced the security of data
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This interview with Ambra Health CPO, Ed Marshall was originally published on Orthopedic Design and Technology. By Sean Fenske, Editor
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From the HIMSS17 Show Floor-
Ambra Health & CommonWell Health Alliance®
Live from the HIMSS17 show floor in Orlando, Florida, CommonWell TV interviewed Morris Panner, CEO of Ambra Health. CommonWell Health Alliance®, understands
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Radiology Trends to Watch in 2017
During a special webinar event, in partnership with HIMSS, Dr. Safwan Halabi, a pediatric radiologist and a fetal radiologist, was joined by Tyler Martin, the Executive Director of Ambulatory Network Operations at New England Baptist Hospital, and Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health. During the event, we took the pulse of the trends in radiology.
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Leaders Weigh in On How to Advance Women in Radiology in Lively #RADxx Tweet Chat
Welcome to the #RADxx tweet chat recap. Whew, say that 5x times fast. During our live tweet chat, we could
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Interoperability and Patient Access Just Became Law
This article by Ambra CEO, Morris Panner, was originally published on HIT Leaders & News on January 5, 2017. When
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2017 Healthcare Predictions: Top 9 in Imaging
Although 2016 was a rather unpredictable year on some fronts, it’s safe to say that when it comes to healthcare,
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Mrs. Claus Needs a Second Opinion
Powdering her nose ever so carefully, Mrs. Claus knew that she couldn’t hide it forever – her nose was turning
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What Patient Centered Radiology Looks Like
How should a patient receive their radiology exam results? From their referring physician, radiologist, patient portal, or all of the
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Walking the show floor at RSNA is a mind-boggling experience. You’ll find MRI machines, live ultrasounds, software vendors, the latest
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Calling all RAD Women (and Men!) : Let’s Bring More Diversity to Informatics Leadership
It’s our favorite time of the year, Thanksgiving the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) conference season! Each year we look
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Latest Research from Frost & Sullivan: Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise Imaging
MACRA, MIPS, population health, consumerism – how is one supposed to key up with all the healthcare lingo? And more
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Government Initiatives & Health IT Join Forces in Cancer Care
Health IT is making waves as it breaks down data barriers both within and across facilities that have previously impeded the
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Health IT & The Presidential Election
Last week, we celebrated National Health IT week, a time for discussion and collaboration across verticals regarding innovation and application
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Think RADical Recap: Driving Innovation in Medical Imaging
How to turn medical imaging data into an invaluable asset was the topic of discussion at Think RADical, a National Health
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Bringing low cost ultrasounds to every corner of the world
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The focus of most digital transformations taking place across the health industry is to make health care truly patient-centric. The rapid adoption and implementation of disruptive technologies, such as the cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, continue to accelerate in health care. A common theme running through this disruption is making patients a meaningful part of the health care process.
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Diagnostic errors are an indication of poor patient care. According to research conducted by Johns Hopkins University, over 250,000 (or 10%) of all U.S. deaths are due to medical errors. Radiology plays a key role in the diagnostic process for many patients.
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The core goal of any telehealth tool or initiative is to break down traditional barriers associated with geography to enable access to premier healthcare services rapidly. When we think of geography, we tend to think of wide ranges, sometimes even as wide as countries or continents. However, breaking down geography can even include the drive or subway ride between a provider and their office.
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By 2050 there will be 83.7 million people aged 65 and older, almost double the 43.1 million seniors in 2012. Such a dramatic increase is expected to have a huge impact on the healthcare industry, not only due to the sheer numbers but also because of the rapidly declining health of those over the age of 65.
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At SIIM19 prepare to hear about exploring new ways to use data, engaging with patients, and empowering one another.
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Digital healthcare trends are largely driven by the need for better patient care, faster and more accurate analysis, and on-demand access to medical data. The pace of innovation in digital healthcare began gaining momentum with artificial intelligence (AI), and it is set to further accelerate as the industry turns to blockchain technology.
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It’s astonishing to think that the visual patient health record is still managed on this dinosaur of technology.
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AI and machine learning are set to expand, and health care is poised to witness an unprecedented explosion of AI use cases.
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A recent interview with Catherine Slotnick, Ambra Health Senior Marketing Manager, and Cheryl Petersilge, M.D., M.B.A., Founder and CEO of Vidagos Advisors which focuses on the future of enterprise imaging.
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The Information Highway To Connected Health Care
Digital data silos keep providers in the dark, hindering their ability to dispense care.
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Millennials are more inclined than baby boomers to research health care online. These relatively well-educated 20- and 30-somethings compare treatment options and check quality ratings of doctors and hospitals.
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The opportunities for positive outcomes are endless, but facilities must make transparency and patient control core institutional values as they move forward.
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Once the imaging stack has been reevaluated and restructured, the question remains, how do these mergers affect patients?
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Cancer patients face many tough choices about their care, yet one of the most gut-wrenching may be whether to undergo high-priced treatment that could save their life but impoverish their family.
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Today is World Kidney Day. Did you know that chronic kidney disease affects 1 in 10 people worldwide? A few
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Radiology Rolls With The Cloud
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HIMSS19 is just a few days away, and our team couldn’t be more excited to get some sunshine and check
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Reducing Imaging Volumes While Retaining Value
A recent article on the JAMA website is causing waves as it at calls for less medical imaging in the
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This article by Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, originally appeared on Forbes on January 16, 2019. The mobile revolution has
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Bringing The Data To Where The Patient Is
This article was originally published on Forbes on December 28, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to the Forbes
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2019 Healthcare Predictions: 10 Trends to Watch in the New Year
The Ambra Health team shares our top healthcare trends and imaging predictions for 2019.
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This article was originally published on Forbes on December 12, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to the Forbes
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If you attended the RSNA Annual Meeting last week, there’s a good chance that your feet are still sore from
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Health Data Meets Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
This article was originally published on Forbes on Nov 21, 2018. Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, is a contributor to
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This is a guest blog post by Ambra Health’s Erin McGee, Manager, Professional Sevices. Erin spent two weeks in Laos
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RSNA Trends: What to Expect at the Show
Missed our webinar? Read the recap here as panelists from Johns Hopkins, South Baptist Health Florida, and Ambra Health share their insights.
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Artificial Intelligence Makes Waves in Breast Cancer Research & Awareness
We’re excited to share an interview with Dr. Mark Traill, who is the owner of MammoBot LLC. Mammobot is a
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Medical Imaging : Competing in an Era of Price Transparency
Ambra Health was joined by Erin Lane of the Advisory Board to discuss consumerism and imaging pricing strategy during a
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October is Breast Health Awareness Month. This means not only identifying risk factors and diagnosis statistics but also recognizing the tools that improve the patient experience, diagnosis, and care.
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Redesigning Hospitals to Promote Better Health
Loud and cluttered hospital rooms slow down patient recovery.
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This is the third blog post in our National Health IT Week series. As the two year anniversary of the
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When Healthcare Data Meets Natural Disasters
This is the second blog post in our #NHITweek series. You can check out the first one here. As hurricane season
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Practical Considerations in AI Application
As artificial intelligence and machine learning gain more traction in radiology, how can facilities be sure to appropriately evaluate new tools?
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Cloud-based PACS System Cuts Imaging Costs by Half for Rural Hospital
This article by Bill Siwicki was originally published on Healthcare IT News on August 14, 2018. Republic County Hospital in
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Telehealth : Overcoming the Obstacle of Geography
Telehealth is an emerging method of medical care that takes advantage of technological developments in communication among providers and between
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EHR systems are often missing a critical component of patient care - medical images. In this blog post we examine image-enabling the EHR.
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Ready for part 4 in our Back to Basics blog series? Last week, we defined Cloud PACS, and today we’re discussing – Cloud-based vendor neutral archiving.
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The latest Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey conducted by the Advisory Board provides a needed lens into the perspective of how cancer
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Pediatric Medical Image Management
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Time for part 2 in our cloud image management 101 series. Last week, we defined medical image exchange, discussed the
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Have you ever been in a situation where you never asked what something was and now it is far too
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There is much talk about how AI will radically transform healthcare, using big data – our data – to find
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SIIM 2018 Recap: Collaboration in Medical Imaging
Ambra Health has been attending the annual SIIM conference for quite a few years now, and we always look forward
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Future Trends : Who Will Be Your Doctor?
Who will be your doctor in the future? When we think of “doctor,” we usually picture someone wearing a white
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We couldn’t say it any more clearly than Dr. Alexander J. Towbin, “CDs suck!” Leading healthcare facilities are expanding at a
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Thought Leaders from the Mayo Clinic & UCSF Share Imaging Trends to Expect in 2018
With changing patient preferences, expanding provider networks, and tech titans like Google and Apple moving into the healthcare realm, 2018
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ITN Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr offers an overview of enterprise imaging advances at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
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This post was originally published on SIIA by Rhianna Collier, VP for the Software Division at SIIA. SIIA’s TechChats provides a
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Why Imaging Isn’t Just for Radiology
If medical imaging was a category on family feud, radiology and radiologist would be among the first answers given by
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It is estimated that out of roughly 300 HIEs that exist today, less than 2 percent support medical images. The
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2018 Healthcare Predictions: 10 Trends to Watch in Imaging
2018 will bring an advanced pace to the digital transformation of the healthcare industry. Changing consumer preferences, provider consolidation, and
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Much like the holidays, RSNA is an event we anticipate with great excitement and then is over in a whirlwind.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We here at Ambra hope everyone has a great holiday and send our best wishes. As we
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The enterprise health system, a conglomeration of top providers, business administrators, and a force of other employees all focused on
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We’ve featured stories on the importance of patient access to medical imaging before, but in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness
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Informatics is a fast growing discipline within healthcare as new technology and increased amounts of patient data converge. But how
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Should Patients Have Access to Medical Imaging?
From generation to generation, we’re seeing healthcare consumers increasingly yearning to be more informed about their health outcomes. While some
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The 3 Pieces of Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster recovery often remains forgotten on the never-ending to-do list of healthcare. When we say “disaster,” natural disaster comes to
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As a mother of two, home health caretaker for the elderly, and Sunday school teacher for kids with special needs,
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Medical Management and the Millennial Manifesto
*Click* … *Click* *Click* *Click* – I, a self-admitted millennial, pitter-patter away on the illuminated screen of my cell phone. In
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“I work for a healthcare IT company.” That’s my classic response to the “what are you doing these days?” question
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Noteworthy new restaurants, must-see music venues, emerging art museums: this was the to-do list I initially had planned when thinking
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You’re a parent. You have a 10 year old son. Want to keep track of what he’s watching? Easy. You
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Despite Progress, Nearly 1 In 3 Patients Cannot Easily Access Medical Records
We recently conducted a survey of over 1,100 U.S. adults on consumer healthcare behavior that showed the industry lagging on technology – with nearly 1 in 3 patients reporting they can not easily access their medical records.
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A Practical Blueprint to Build a Future-Proof Image Management Strategy
Across leading facilities, we frequently hear the same common struggles around image management. CDs still act as the primary method
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This two part interview series with Ambra Health’s CEO Morris Panner & Ryan Black originally appeared on Healthcare Analytics News
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Live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, appeared on Cheddar to discuss
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Leading healthcare providers across the globe place a constant focus on innovation around all aspects of the care continuum. Medical
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Just like the rapid evolution of the EHR, patient portals have become the norm for providers and patients alike. Along
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Unlocking Imaging’s Strategic Advantage
In a live special webinar event, Ambra Health CMO, Mini Peiris, was joined by Miriam Sznycer-Taub of the Advisory Board who shared how the key to enterprise "systemness" can and should start within imaging departments.
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Welcome to the 2nd #RADxx tweet chat recap! We thought it was impossible to keep up with the last tweet
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This is a guest blog post by imaging and informatics thought leader, Dr. Geraldine McGinty. Dr. McGinty was Chair of the ACR’s
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Ambra Health was joined on a live webinar event by Blackford Analysis, DiACardio, and Realize for a panel discussion and offered demos of their forward thinking imaging technologies, each of which provides a way to innovate part of your imaging technology workflow.
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This article originally appeared on March 22, 2017 on auntminnie.com Longstanding U.S. healthcare regulations have enforced the security of data
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During a special webinar event, in partnership with HIMSS, Dr. Safwan Halabi, a pediatric radiologist and a fetal radiologist, was joined by Tyler Martin, the Executive Director of Ambulatory Network Operations at New England Baptist Hospital, and Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health. During the event, we took the pulse of the trends in radiology.
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Welcome to the #RADxx tweet chat recap. Whew, say that 5x times fast. During our live tweet chat, we could
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Interoperability and Patient Access Just Became Law
This article by Ambra CEO, Morris Panner, was originally published on HIT Leaders & News on January 5, 2017. When
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2017 Healthcare Predictions: Top 9 in Imaging
Although 2016 was a rather unpredictable year on some fronts, it’s safe to say that when it comes to healthcare,
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Mrs. Claus Needs a Second Opinion
Powdering her nose ever so carefully, Mrs. Claus knew that she couldn’t hide it forever – her nose was turning
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How should a patient receive their radiology exam results? From their referring physician, radiologist, patient portal, or all of the
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It’s our favorite time of the year, Thanksgiving the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) conference season! Each year we look
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MACRA, MIPS, population health, consumerism – how is one supposed to key up with all the healthcare lingo? And more
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Think RADical Recap: Driving Innovation in Medical Imaging
How to turn medical imaging data into an invaluable asset was the topic of discussion at Think RADical, a National Health
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Deliver Better Patient Care in the Cloud
Ambra Health is a proud partner of National Health IT Week, #NHIT. This week, we’ll be sharing why the cloud
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Ambra Health Joins the Boston Tech Party
When searching for the Boston Tech Party, you might find that Google suggests that your search should be the Boston
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DICOM Grid is excited to reveal a new name, brand identity and website – Ambra Health. Of course, the first
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“Cloud PACS” & “Deconstructed VNA” – are we even speaking English? Whether you’re already familiar with these terms or not, the
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Balancing Healthcare’s Iron Triangle with Telemedicine
Telemedicine remains a controversial topic for both insurance companies and doctors. Money and quality of care are central issues as
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Cloud slowly moves towards mainstream medical applications
As cloud has become very much a mainstream way of delivering IT for enterprises, there are still a couple of
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Add the Cloud to Your Enterprise Image Management Strategy
As SIIM 2016 approaches in just a few weeks, all eyes are on the Journal of Digital Imaging, the HIMSS-SIIM
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In a healthcare organization suffering from silo syndrome, each medical imaging system interacts primarily within that “silo” and can not
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Shrinking Barriers to Patient Centered Care
As technology remains at the forefront of prominent healthcare trends, growing mHealth Solutions and global telemedicine markets have reified the
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Sit by the fire everyone…it’s time for the annual tale of how Santa sprained his ankle while climbing down the
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3 Barriers that Prevent Widespread Adoption of Advanced mHealth Solutions
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This featured post was written by Sean Fenske and originally published on MDT. The next generation of imaging technologies will
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3 Problems with Existing Image Management Solutions in Hospitals
Here’s a sneek peek from our latest eBook on unified image management in the enterprise. Download here to view the
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Saving money for a rainy day is not as easy as it sounds, and sometimes we make a very big
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Why SaaS is Key When Evaluating Cloud PACS Vendors
The “Cloud.” It’s cool, it’s trendy, and it can work really, really well. However, as with all major technology innovations,
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DICOM Grid Settles the Dress Dispute!
Is it white and gold? Is it blue and black? The dress mystery has been on everyone’s mind this morning
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As 2014 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on how healthcare IT has evolved over the past year.
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The Internet of Everything and What it Means for Healthcare
Imagine living in a world of connected things that intelligently and intuitively respond to your needs and wants. From the
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Review: Secure Medical Texting Applications
Since posting our blog last week, Medical Texting: There’s An App For That, in which we discussed the benefits of
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The Importance of Medical Image Exchange
Sitting down to prepare for our monthly webinar, my thoughts strayed to the concept of purpose again. Medical image exchange
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KLAS Takes a Close Look at Medical Image Exchange
“Which image exchange vendors are delivering added value and functionality? Which vendors have earned high loyalty in today’s environment of
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If you’ve recently attended any of the big radiology or imaging conferences, like SIIM or RSNA, you may have noticed
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What’s The Deal With Big Data?
If you’ve recently attended any of the big radiology or imaging conferences, like SIIM or RSNA, you may have noticed
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Clarity in the Cloud: Farewell Traditional Software
Last night DICOM Grid’s Chief Architect, Anatoly Geyfman, and Marketing Manager, Dana Tee, kicked off HIMSS13 at the Clarity in
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Flexibility is becoming a key attribute for the successful healthcare enterprise. For those managing and improving diagnostic imaging, “Vendor Neural
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The Future of Radiology: the Millennials vision
Millennials, the generation born between the late 1970s to early 2000s, are expected to number 83 million by 2015 and
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is making an impact in most major industries today. While there is a long way to go before all the possibilities of AI are exhausted or even realized (including the many dreams and nightmares of science fiction), AI is currently most adept at helping to improve and accelerate workflows for researchers and healthcare professionals.
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Will the 2020s be the roaring twenties of healthcare? There is much that remains to be seen as many questions loom over the real efficiency level of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, patient control over data and its usage, and interoperability across vendors.
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As a marketing and PR specialist, I can’t say that I ever thought I would be giving an academic presentation
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The most common cancer screenings and tests, all of which are recommended by the American Cancer Society, include mammograms (for breast cancer) and screenings for colorectal cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, and prostate cancer. These are screenings that have all been found to save lives by detecting dangerous cancers early.
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Remote Patient Monitoring Brings Healthcare To Your Home
Using monitoring equipment, a healthcare provider can keep tabs on a patient's clinical data. Glucose meters, ECGs and blood pressure monitors are among the most common types of RPM equipment used, but the array of available technologies is rapidly expanding.
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Those of us at Ambra hope everyone has a great holiday and we send our best wishes. As we prepare for Thanksgiving this week, there is one thing we are all grateful for—RSNA!
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Wearables And Hearables Increasingly Have A Role In Patient Treatment Plans
The concept of wearable technology that could advance the user’s health goals really caught fire with the popularity of smart devices like the Apple Watch, which boasted the ability to track the wearer’s steps and heart rate when it was first released in 2015. But with each passing year, new wearables emerged and existing ones developed more impressive features.
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Caregivers: Supporting And Learning From Our Most Valuable Human Resource
Whether standing next to a patient receiving a difficult diagnosis or spending countless hours by a hospital sickbed, these vigilant caregivers are often mistakenly seen by doctors and other healthcare workers as simply “the family.”
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A Day in the Life of Ambra Health Support
A recent interview with Rebecca Schankerman, Ambra Health Field Marketing Coordinator, and Melissa Lam, Ambra Health Consultant, about the day in the life of Ambra's support team.
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The New Rules of Ambulatory Surgery Competition
Hospitals and health systems are seeing massive growth in the lucrative and highly competitive market for ambulatory surgery. How can organizations implement an ASC strategy to compete against new and traditional competitors?
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This is a guest blog post from one of Ambra's partners, CaptureProof. CaptureProof allows patients to record their health trends through photos and videos and instantly and securely share them with their physician.
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The Patient Portal: Giving People Control Over Their Health Data
The focus of most digital transformations taking place across the health industry is to make health care truly patient-centric. The rapid adoption and implementation of disruptive technologies, such as the cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, continue to accelerate in health care. A common theme running through this disruption is making patients a meaningful part of the health care process.
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Improving Patient Safety & Security with the Cloud
We have come a long way, but there is still much uncertainty revolving around “the cloud” in healthcare. Many organizations hesitate about switching away from their current systems to a cloud-based structure. Cloud technology can offer many benefits to health organizations, including, most importantly, improvements in patient care and safety.
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Don’t Get Caught in the Storm. What is Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
The healthcare industry is constantly innovating and growing due to the rapid technological advances of the 21st century. With EHR’s (Electronic Health Records), and a growing interoperable network becoming more prevalent, it is hard-pressed to find a hospital that isn’t trying to stay up to date with the latest technology. As good as the healthcare industry gets when everything is right, we need healthcare IT to work its best when everything goes wrong.
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Upgrade your Phone, Upgrade Your TV, Upgrade Your Patient Care
When people talk about technology growth in recent years, everyone thinks of cell phones and computers because they are so prevalent in our everyday lives. There has been exponential growth in technology, but one area that is commonly forgotten and is severely lacking is the healthcare industry. For example, why are we still using CDs when it comes to something vitally important to us; our health?
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Can’t Find Your Patients in the Office? Check the Cloud!
Millennials’ preferences are shaping the new physician-patient relationship. A recent Business Insider article described how millennials currently comprise roughly 30% of the US population and their wants and needs are shaping a multitude of other industries such as retail, transportation, and healthcare. Millennials are a tech-savvy group interested in gaining multi-channel access to their healthcare just like they have in adjacent industries.
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In the age of Amazon Prime and Uber Eats, traditional processes in healthcare -- getting a call to hear back about your lab results or waiting 3-5 business days to pick up a CD with your images -- seem painfully antiquated. Twenty-first-century healthcare requires methods that mirror the technology and accessibility consumers experience day-to-day.
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Working together, vendors and facilities can establish strategies for gathering real-world evidence, including imaging and diverse data, successfully.
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From cloud-based medical imaging platforms to artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics, health care continues to be the epicenter of digital innovations that are geared toward boosting patient care. Personalized medicine is another new wave sweeping health care with the dual objectives of achieving more meaningful patient-to-doctor relations and lowering costs.
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Patient Awareness Opens Lines of Communication in Radiology
Why do incidental findings go unreported? The first reason is due to a lack of patient awareness. Their physician may verbally tell them their results, but they may never review the report themselves. A physician may fail to disclose all the information if incidental findings are not dire news; they may worry that they are burdening the patient with too much information. However, it is a patient’s right to be fully aware of their own health and new regulation may soon make that law.
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Morris Panner, CEO of Ambra Health, shares exciting details on the partnership between Ambra Health and Amazon Web Services in this video.
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How Health IT Infrastructure Affects Patient Outcomes
In today’s post, we are going to focus on IT infrastructure and the role it can play in the patient outcome. Healthcare organizations have gone decades without modernizing their IT infrastructure which is unfathomable compared to other industries like banking, cell phone networks, and many more.
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Getting More Women Speakers in Radiology and Informatics
“Diverse representation in radiology is critical to effectively addressing the needs of our diverse patient population. Organizations should be thinking about this as they craft their agendas and panels,” said McGinty.
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Image Enable HIEs to Streamline Patient Care
When it comes to sharing reports and notes on a patient, HIEs are a great resource, but where do a patient’s medical images go? In cases of serious illness, medical imaging is often a critical part of the overall diagnosis. Only a small portion of U.S.-based HIEs have incorporated an image exchange component into their data sharing abilities, yet the sharing of diagnostic imaging holds great promise for patient outcomes and efficiency.
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Encouraging Patient Portal Use
You've finally established a patient portal at your medical practice. It's what your patients have said they wanted, and you can't wait to see it put to use. Yet, a few months go by, and the portal doesn't seem to have many logins. What is going on? How can you actually encourage patients to use the patient portal?
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The core goal of any telehealth tool or initiative is to break down traditional barriers associated with geography to enable access to premier healthcare services rapidly. When we think of geography, we tend to think of wide ranges, sometimes even as wide as countries or continents. However, breaking down geography can even include the drive or subway ride between a provider and their office.
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By 2050 there will be 83.7 million people aged 65 and older, almost double the 43.1 million seniors in 2012. Such a dramatic increase is expected to have a huge impact on the healthcare industry, not only due to the sheer numbers but also because of the rapidly declining health of those over the age of 65.
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Adding Phone Numbers to Radiology Reports: Patient Centered Care
Radiologists are elusive to patients. Although they play a critical component in the healthcare trajectory of any individual, many patients will never come into direct contact with one. However, we know that patients do in fact want to interact with radiologists. Many studies have highlighted an interest among patients to hear results not only from their referring physician but also the radiologist, particularly in cases of complex diagnosis.
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Reducing Imaging Volumes While Retaining Value
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Despite Progress, Nearly 1 In 3 Patients Cannot Easily Access Medical Records
We recently conducted a survey of over 1,100 U.S. adults on consumer healthcare behavior that showed the industry lagging on technology – with nearly 1 in 3 patients reporting they can not easily access their medical records.
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It seems like AI is everywhere this Summer. But what does it mean in the world of healthcare? How is
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C-Suite Q & A with Ambra Health’s Morris Panner
This two part interview series with Ambra Health’s CEO Morris Panner & Ryan Black originally appeared on Healthcare Analytics News
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Ambra Health CEO Morris Panner Appears on Cheddar
Live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Ambra Health CEO, Morris Panner, appeared on Cheddar to discuss
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Innovate from Within: Unlock Medical Imaging as a Data Asset
Leading healthcare providers across the globe place a constant focus on innovation around all aspects of the care continuum. Medical
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Just like the rapid evolution of the EHR, patient portals have become the norm for providers and patients alike. Along
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RADxx TweetChat brings in 70 leaders for discussion about mentorship for women in radiology
Welcome to the 2nd #RADxx tweet chat recap! We thought it was impossible to keep up with the last tweet
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Should You Have a Mentor, a Sponsor, or Both?
This is a guest blog post by imaging and informatics thought leader, Dr. Geraldine McGinty. Dr. McGinty was Chair of the ACR’s
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3 Ways to Innovate Your Imaging Technology
Ambra Health was joined on a live webinar event by Blackford Analysis, DiACardio, and Realize for a panel discussion and offered demos of their forward thinking imaging technologies, each of which provides a way to innovate part of your imaging technology workflow.
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Radiology Trends to Watch in 2017
During a special webinar event, in partnership with HIMSS, Dr. Safwan Halabi, a pediatric radiologist and a fetal radiologist, was joined by Tyler Martin, the Executive Director of Ambulatory Network Operations at New England Baptist Hospital, and Morris Panner, CEO, Ambra Health. During the event, we took the pulse of the trends in radiology.
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2017 Healthcare Predictions: Top 9 in Imaging
Although 2016 was a rather unpredictable year on some fronts, it’s safe to say that when it comes to healthcare,
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Mrs. Claus Needs a Second Opinion
Powdering her nose ever so carefully, Mrs. Claus knew that she couldn’t hide it forever – her nose was turning
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What Patient Centered Radiology Looks Like
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