NEW ORLEANS—The American College of Radiology (ACR) has selected Siemens Healthcare syngo.via advanced visualization software for use in the ACR Education Center in Reston, Va.

It’s fitting that in the week leading up to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference next week in New Orleans, our top stories focused on cutting-edge technology and communication.

Carestream Health’s MyVue patient portal will be available as a cloud service in March.

Customized EMR modules can be leveraged to improve the ability of physicians to accurately locate support devices, such as catheters, lines and tubes, on radiography in the intensive care unit (ICU) and beyond, according to an article published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The University of California, San Francisco, a pilot site of the RSNA Image Share project, conducted physician and patient surveys 12 months after launching the electronic personal health record.

Örebro University in Sweden has installed three visualization tables from Sectra for use in several of the university’s medicine programs and to replace or complement the dissection of bodies.

Women who receive healthcare from providers equipped with an EHR may be more likely to be referred for a mammogram and other preventive health services, and the link may be stronger with more sophisticated EHR systems, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Although diagnostic performance is absolutely essential in imaging tools, the workflow impact of new technologies also plays a critical role. A pair of studies in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology hint at the issue as it relates to new women’s imaging tools.