BETHESDA, MD – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a contract to Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream Health for its radiology information system (RIS) technology.
The CARESTREAM Vue RIS aims to improve the management of medical images by streamlining and automating a process that begins with a physician's order for an imaging exam, includes reading by a radiologist, and distributes a report with the diagnosis to clinicians and referring physicians.
The Vue RIS makes a patient's radiology report accessible to authorized clinicians from any location, Carestream officials note, and is one of the first standalone RIS platforms to satisfy Stage 1 meaningful use requirements and to be certified as an EMR module by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) for hospitals and outpatient imaging centers.
NIH is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, and is the primary agency responsible for biomedical and health-related research aimed at preventing, detecting, diagnosing and treating disease and disability. Its biomedical research institution, which includes 27 separate institutes, centers and offices, is the largest in the world.
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