CHICAGO--PACS has revolutionized radiology, but has separated radiologists from their clinical colleagues. Its essential for radiologists to re-define their role and become clinical diagnostic radiologists, according to a poster presentation on Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGO--Commercial cloud computing data sharing such as Evernote and Dropbox are used every day by the general public and offer all the advantages of mobile data retrieval, but they are not appropriate for radiologists to share medical information with one another. One alternative could be the creation of a personal cloud that is maintained by the department that uses it, according to a poster presentation at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGO--Radiology is witnessing the maturation of digital image management technologies and has entered a new phase, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, chair of radiology informatics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, during a session on Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

ACS, a Xerox company, has acquired The Breakaway Group, developer of PromisePoint, a cloud-based service to help healthcare professionals accelerate their EMR adoption.

CHICAGOOver the past decade, radiology has transitioned away from the use of hard copy films to digital media on CD, but one issue that still remains is ensuring that all files are in the internationally derived DICOM standard. While the majority of CDs are in DICOM format, there has been an increasing number of non-DICOM formats, according to a study presented at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGORadiology informatics is in its infancy, and new technologies combined with continued governmental oversight, will  bring radiologists into a more patient-centric, less department-dependent environment, according to a Nov. 28 presentation by Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chairman of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

A growing number of hospitals are transitioning to an enterprise-wide, centralized archive that houses both radiology and non-radiology imaging datasets.

More facilities have turned to virtualization and cloud data storage as part of the comprehensive disaster recovery plan.