Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor and vice chair of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, will deliver the 2012 Dwyer Lecture at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting on June 8 in Orlando, Fla.
CHICAGO—Having a dedicated advanced visualization 3D lab provides numerous advantages to radiology departments, including financial incentives, workflow benefits and improved quality of images, according to a presentation on Nov. 27 at the annual scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Dueling articles in the November issue of
Radiology tackled the touchy topic of extracardiac findings on cardiac CT exams, debating whether to reconstruct and review studies at the maximum field of view (FOV) or to limit interpretation to a restricted FOV.
Last February, IBM’s Watson supercomputer captured the world’s imagination when it bested a pair of Jeopardy champions. However, the game show represents the tip of the iceberg as far as meaningful applications of the technology.
PACS has transformed radiology. But as more imaging-based specialties jump on the bandwagon and adopt or customize their own versions of PACS, many in radiology are reporting more problems with PACS.
Health Imaging & IT spoke with radiologists and administrators to compile and address the 10 most vexing challenges.
Applying the Toyota business concept of Lean Manufacturing--a quality improvement (QI) method aimed at reducing waste--to radiology can spur optimized value and enhanced QI, according to an article published in the June issue of the
Journal of American College of Radiology.
With the explosion of advanced image processing in the last 10 years, radiologists have increasingly resembled Renaissance sculptors, stripping images of noise to render cleaner images and clearer diagnoses.But should 3D reconstruction be the role of the radiologist, or is such a responsibility for a physician outdated and inefficient, asked the authors of an article in the June issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging.
Saturday, June 4 | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Potomac Ballroom A
Friday, June 3 | 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Potomac Ballroom A
Thursday, June 2 | 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Potomac Ballroom C
SIIM 2011 Tackles Healthcare Reform | The annual meeting theme for the 2011 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) “Reforming Healthcare through Informatics: Challenges to Solutions” emphasizes the top needs of the imaging informatics community.
SNM 2011 Molecular Imaging at the Crossroads | San Antonio hosts SNM from June 4 to June 8. Expect 1,600 scientific papers and posters exploring the molecular imaging and nuclear medicine fields and more than 150 vendors, who will showcase an array of advanced molecular imaging and nuclear medicine technologies.
