Novarad unveiled enhancements to NovaPACS at RSNA and showed updates to NovaRIS and NovaDash at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Merge Healthcare has partnered with EMC to make its iConnect Enterprise Clinical platform available through EMC Select, a program which helps customers acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure.

CHICAGO—The ability to manipulate chest images in PACS worsened already poor consistency in reporting between radiologists and neonatologists, according to a poster presentation Nov. 27 at RSNA 2012. In an interview with Health Imaging, the lead researcher called for a larger multi-center study to quantify the extent of the problem and suggested operational and technical approaches to address the issue.

CHICAGO— Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, reflected on the question of whether Meaningful Use (MU) has moved into the radiology mainstream or not. The answer is a resounding yes. During the Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture Nov. 26 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting, Dreyer shared a few figures to demonstrate the point and considered imaging informatics in an MU model.

CHICAGO—When his father retired from radiology, the senior Chang told his son he was glad to be retiring because Chang and the rest of the “PACS people” had destroyed radiology, Paul J. Chang, MD, professor and vice chairman, radiology informatics, at The University of Chicago Medicine, told the audience during the Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture Nov. 26 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting.

CHICAGO—The Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC), an informatics project sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), is a free resource to support radiology teaching files and imaging clinical trials, according to a Nov. 25 presentation from the MIRC committee chairman at the RSNA annual meeting.

CHICAGO—Cloud computing can offer many advantages to radiology, but only if certain challenges—namely networking and privacy issues—can be managed effectively, according to a Nov. 25 session at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

Thursday, Nov. 29, 7:15-8:15 a.m. | E351 | This session introduces participants to multiple issues, including the potential of cloud-based DICOM transfer, reimbursement for second opinion radiology reports and strategies for designing image transfer and second opinion reporting systems.