Storing medical images in the cloud makes distribution faster for patients who want to share images with their physicians, regardless of where the physician is located, according to a preliminary report on the Radiological Society of North America's Image Share project presented April 30 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Vancouver.
Five-star customer service has hit radiology, with practices springing for mammography parties, massages and much more. Thoughtful patient care, strategic goals and data analysis are essential.
Health information exchanges (HIEs) promise to improve patient care and trim costs by providing access to patient data across organizations ... if they can remain sustainable. Yet, integrating a key component of patient data—images—into the HIE has proven to be problematic and plagued by technical and privacy hurdles.
A pair of articles in the January issue of
Radiology debated whether or not radiology departments need to develop an informed consent process that details the risk of medical radiation. Both groups of experts recognized that informed consent may not be ready for prime time, albeit for different reasons, and acknowledged the value of informed decision making.
Attendance for the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting was up 2 percent from last year, with a total attendance of 59,097.
At RSNA 2011, the latest and greatest in radiology engaged nearly 60,000 imaging and informatics stakeholders.
Intelerad shared its meaningful use (MU) certification plans and unveiled peer review functionality at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Fujifilm Medical Systems unveiled advances across its imaging and informatics product lines at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. The company also announced that clinical trials of its 3D digital mammography system are slated to begin in the U.S.
Mach 7 Technologies debuted the Keystone Study Split Utility, a CT and MRI segmenting software, which can be used to reduce the time required to split multiregion CT and MR scans into anatomic regions that match the original orders from the RIS and reducing the time required for the newly split studies to be sent to the PACS, at 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.
Siemens Healthcare debuted an array of imaging and informatics advances at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
While the 2006 healthcare reform law in Massachusetts, referred to as the Accountable Health Care Act, served as a model for national healthcare reform, a closer look at the state’s statistics showed it may not make an effective federal system, according to a presentation on Nov. 29 the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago.
Merge Healthcare showcased their move to the cloud with Merge Honeycomb and demonstrated its suite of interoperability tools at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
lifeIMAGE, a developer of tools for e-sharing of medical images, launched its LINCS service, which allows physicians to share medical images and associated information with each other, with medical centers and with their patients, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
TeraRecon unveiled a web-based service for iNtuition Cloud and tools to support volumetric workflow at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Iron Mountain and NetApp have teamed up to provide cloud data storage that can serve as an archive for medical data and provide disaster recovery services. The two companies shared a booth and showcased their partnership at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
GE Healthcare showcased advances across its portfolio at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. New launches included interventional and cardiovascular x-ray systems, MR enhancements and technologies to address radiation exposure.
Qi Imaging, the Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of visualization and functional analytics technology, displayed the PhyZiodynamics inVivo supercomputing technology at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
CHICAGO—Iterative reconstruction can significantly decrease the time and number of manual adjustments needed for post-processing of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) compared with traditional filtered back projection (FBP), according to research presented Nov. 28 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Amirsys, a medical publisher that provides online reference and education, introduced Amirsys Wizard, a multi-media, multi-touch option enhancement that seeks to bridge print and digital media during the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Royal Philips Electronics has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its whole-body PET/MR imaging system, the Ingenuity TF PET/MR. The system was on display at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
