RIS Shares Patient’s Clinical History with Images for Referring Physicians

The latest version of a radiology information system (RIS) offers significant features that can enhance workflow and address specific needs of healthcare providers worldwide. The system now offers a clinical document exchange, which is an important tool for healthcare providers worldwide, and was part of the platform’s certification for stage 2 meaningful use (MU) in the United States.

This version of Carestream’s (Rochester, NY, USA) Vue RIS will be presented at the 2014 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference, held November 30-December 5, 2014, in Chicago (IL, USA), and available worldwide in December 2014. Current users of Vue RIS can purchase an upgrade to the latest version as it becomes available.


By pressing a button, a patient’s clinical history can be integrated into the RIS and sent or received via secure email. This allows referring physicians to view a complete patient clinical history in combination with imaging studies, and in addition, this clinical summary can be shared with other healthcare providers. Providing a more complete view of the patient can lead to better treatment decisions.

The newest RIS includes advanced functionality required by specific regions and countries, including a digital signature and a mammography double-blind reading workflow that manages all patient communications. The scheduling module used for screening programs can schedule thousands of exams simultaneously according to specific instructions, such as “all women in the system between the ages of 40 and 60 who have not had a screening exam in the last 12 months.”

The RIS will schedule the exam and send each patient an email or a letter. If a patient does not like the appointment date or time, they can use Carestream’s MyVue patient portal to change their appointment date.

Streamlined sharing of patient data and other new enhancements are expedited through tighter integration between the RIS and Carestream’s Vue product family including the MyVue patient portal, Vue Beyond dashboard, Vue Reporting and Vue Motion zero-footprint image viewer.

Additional new features include: multi-resource scheduling helps users to schedule/manage exam rooms, physicians and equipment in a single action; inventory module and consumables tracking; scheduled management reports; link to exams at the technologist level; patient notes system and secure messaging between the patient and the doctor; support for American College of Radiology codes for diagnosis; and lastly, incorporation with InfoButton, which provides users with links to medical data repositories.

Carestream’s Vue range of healthcare information technology (IT) systems is designed to offer insights for clinicians, optimize collaboration, control costs, and streamline dataflow.

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