National Harbor, Md.— What do you want to know? What do you want to accomplish? What kind of data do you have and how can you use it to create and implement new strategies? These are the questions hospitals need to address before they can tap into the power of analytics, which has the potential to revolutionize every aspect of the business and practice of medicine.

National Harbor, Md.—Consensus statements, organizational guidelines, population-based recommendations—these have traditionally guided clinical decision support in the practice of radiology. The future, as outlined in a paper presented at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2015 annual meeting, may lie in mining “big data” to create individualized patient management strategies.

National Harbor, Md.—When Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center needed to find a better way of viewing medical images on mobile devices, they went the do-it-yourself route, and have gotten good results, according to a presentation at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting.

National Harbor, Md.—When it comes to data breaches in healthcare, learn from the mistakes of others. That was the message during a presentation on IT security at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2015 annual meeting. That and don’t share your passwords.

Agfa HealthCare announced today the launch of its Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program which establishes a secure health information exchange network between multispecialty collaborating health providers to exchange and share medical imaging data. 

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with its latest acquisition of TeraMedica, Inc., by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) on May 28 – May 30 in Washington, D.C.

lifeIMAGE announced today that it has closed a $17.5 million round of financing led by Cambia Health Solutions (Portland, Ore.), a nonprofit total health solutions company dedicated to transforming health care by creating a person-focused and economically sustainable system.

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2015 annual meeting kicked off on Thursday near Washington, D.C., with a slate of engaging presentations that laid out some of the biggest challenges facing imaging informatics professionals today, while offering plenty of guidance for meeting these demands.