Blog - Vital Images

07 Feb 2019

Vital Spotlights True Interoperability at HIMSS 2019 and Celebrates a KLAS No. 1 Ranking for Advanced Visualization

February 7, 2019 – Minnetonka, MN – Vital, a Canon Group company, will demonstrate its powerful Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging solution at this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition, booth #5959, Feb. 12 -14 in Orlando, FL. Addit...

26 Nov 2018

Vital® Celebrates 30 Years of Leadership at RSNA 2018

A global leader in healthcare imaging, Vital is excited to share its latest innovations in enterprise imaging. November 26, 2018 — Minnetonka, MN — Built on 30 years of innovation and leadership in healthcare imaging, Vital, a Canon Group company, is returning to the Radiological Society of Nort...

20 Aug 2018

Is the past really the best predictor of the future?

Healthcare enterprise analytics: Manage where you want to be – not where you’ve been. Several famous quotes advocate for the idea that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. But making decisions about the future solely based on past data will leave healthcare organizations incap...

13 Jun 2018

Enterprise Imaging: The whole is greater than the sum of the PACS.

When picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) were introduced in the 1980s, it was a major step forward for healthcare. For the first time, a clinician could simply open a digital image file at a workstation rather than sending someone to search for a piece of film in a file room down the ...

23 May 2018

The odds of avoiding repeat imaging just improved.

When patient prior imaging data exists outside of a healthcare provider’s enterprise, the clinician often resorts to ordering a duplicate exam, thanks to the barriers of closed data networks. The cost is significant. To the patient, it can mean more time off work or away from preferred activities,...

09 May 2018

Nuclear Medicine: The last frontier for advanced visualization.

Many hospital systems and imaging centers have moved toward the enterprise-level data access of advanced visualization (AV). For more than a decade, they’ve reaped the benefits of improved workflows by providing radiologists with real-time access to images captured through modalities such as CT, M...

03 Apr 2018

Move over. The healthcare consumer is taking the wheel.

With smartphones setting today’s standard for instant information, consumers’ expectations for data access are high. This, of course, includes their own healthcare data. Whether the data is generated inside or outside the healthcare system, consumers want to see it instantly. Add to this the rec...

20 Mar 2018

Making workflows work.

One of the challenges to successful implementation of an enterprise imaging strategy is workflow design. As hospital systems adopt enterprise imaging, they are faced with the inherent disparate workflows associated with various legacy PACS.* While standardizing workflows can lead to efficiencies, th...

07 Mar 2018

Vitrea® Intelligence Enables Imaging Queensland to Optimize Operations Across its Enterprise

Solution provides next-generation analytics and new capability to combine RIS and PACS data March 7, 2018 – Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA – Vital Images announced today that its enterprise analytics solution, Vitrea Intelligence, will be deployed at Imaging Queensland, a premier imaging network ...

05 Mar 2018

New Opportunity Navigator Predictive Analytics Solution Refined Through Vital Images and Fairview Collaboration

Solution provides next-generation analytics with predictive capabilities March 5, 2018 – Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA – Vital Images announced today it refined its latest innovation, Vitrea® Intelligence Opportunity Navigator through collaboration with Fairview Health Services. This new applicati...