Reader poll: Radiology informatics expected to be hottest RSNA topic

Of readers responding to last week’s Health Imaging News poll, just under 37 percent believe that radiology informatics will be the biggest topic discussed at the show this week at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago. Coming in second was multidetector CT (21 percent), followed by health IT system integration (15.8 percent), with workflow sitting last at 10.5 percent.

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