When leaders at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH), a not-for-profit health system based in Memphis, Tenn., saw the opportunity to standardize their suite of diagnostic imaging solutions, they capitalized on it. The seven-hospital system will deploy McKesson’s portfolio of enterprise medical imaging products across its various facilities to help improve physician collaboration, streamline data management, and simplify its imaging archive process with a single point of access.

Sorna Corporation, a global leader in digital medical image and data distribution systems, announces the release of SDS (Secure DICOM Share), a new and innovative feature of the eXpedo® software suite. eXpedo with SDS enables healthcare facilities to send DICOM studies and reports directly from one site to another through eXpedo utilizing the DICOM TLS Secure Transport Connection Profile.

DALLAS—Radiology is drowning in paper outside of the reading room, Paul J. Chang, MD, vice chairman of radiology informatics at University of Chicago School of Medicine, acknowledged during an educational session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).

DALLAS—As more organizations embrace an enterprise image management model, radiology informatics professionals have an opportunity to play a key role in the process. However, smart players will take care to avoid a few pitfalls, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, vice chairman of radiology informatics at University of Chicago School of Medicine.

DALLAS—Suboptimal workflows plague radiology, Luciano M. Prevedello, MD, MPH, from the department of radiology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, said during the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting. Various forms of decision support offer a way forward, he contended.

DALLAS—Personalized medicine will completely revolutionize the way we do diagnostic imaging, Eliot L. Siegel, MD, chief of radiology and nuclear imaging at VA Maryland Healthcare System in Baltimore, predicted at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting. Despite the potential, imaging is not even close to ready for the era of personalized medicine, he continued.

DALLAS—With most, if not all, PACS suffering from a potentially fatal case of “feature-itis,” imaging informatics is in dire need of innovation. Bradley J. Erickson, MD, PhD, department of radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., offered a roadmap for translating innovation to clinical practice during the opening general session of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting.

InteleradMedical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, today announced three new offerings as part of their Nuage™ suite of cloud-based solutions. Amongst the new solutions is CloudComplete™ - a fully-featured, cloud-based version of their award-winning IntelePACS® solution.