All about Radiology Information Systems Radiology is basically defined in the medical world, as a specialty in which medical imaging is being used to identify, diagnose and treat any disorders and diseases that can be seen within the body of the patient who has undergone any imaging techniques and diagnostic procedures. The different kinds of imaging techniques for radiology includes nuclear medicine like positron emission tomography or PET for short, MRI or magnetic resonance imaging, X-ray radiography, ultrasound and CT or computed tomography scan. In the hospital setting, the health care provider who provides primary care to patients, who is also known as the clinician or physician is the one who request and ask for the imaging procedure to be done to the patient, which can either be emergently or routinely done, and the one who does the procedure of the acquisition of medical images is called as the radiographer or the radiologic technologists, while the one who reads and interprets the said and images, as the same time files the report of their finding and diagnosis is the reporting radiographer or the diagnostic radiologist. Typically, the imaging exams are being stored directly on the PACS or the picture archiving and communication systems, which is defined as one of the medical imaging technology that can provide convenient access and economical storage to the images obtained from the different kinds of modalities such as the imaging techniques. In this modern day and age, a lot of new and efficient technologies were being produced by the scientists and inventors which can be very beneficial to all kinds of professionals, and one of their products that they have provided specifically to the hospitals and health care providers is the RIS or radiology information system. Radiology information system or RIS is now recognized as the core system for the electronic management of each and every imaging departments of medical or health centers, hospitals and clinics. Typically, RIS is being used by the hospitals as their computer database that can provide them the help they need in distributing, tracking and manipulating the imagery and data of their patients, and because of that it is considered as an electronic health record system specifically designed for the field of radiology. The specific system may work by integrating and merging a variety of functions into a single system of comprehension and with that is can eliminate and avoid any occurrence of redundancies and can increase the efficiency and accessibility of a clinic and hospital. The various features that are being supported through the use of RIS includes result entry, patient registration and scheduling, interface with modality through work-list, radiology department workflow management, request and document scanning, reporting and printout, result delivery such as faxing and e-mailing of medical or clinical reports, interactive documents, patient tracking, modality and material management, technical files creation, PACS workflow, appointment booking, custom report creation, rule engines, billing and patient list management. There are basically four benefits that can be obtained by a health care provider, hospital and clinics upon the use of RIS, and those are better coordination of patient care, higher quality of patient care, higher cost of savings and efficiency, and a more accurate diagnoses and better health outcomes of the patient.