Judging from the vendor offerings at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) recent annual meeting, 2012 was another slow year for technology innovation, according to a Dec. 6 webinar from global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan.

As the PACS market expands, the most successful vendors will be those that offer meaningful upgrades to enhance usability in a timely manner, according to a report from market researcher KLAS.

The Radpeer system, which has become a part of physician performance evaluation in many practices, is unreliable and too subjective for the evaluation of discrepant interpretations, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Barco is supplying more than 350 medical display systems to equip Continuum Health Partners’ two flagship hospitals with PACS image viewing technology.

Siemens Healthcare has signed an $11.7 million, multi-year contract with Intermountain Healthcare to deploy Siemens Image Sharing & Archiving vendor-neutral archive.

CHICAGO—The consensus on Meaningful Use (MU) for radiology is that the program is an awkward fit for the specialty. Consequently, radiologists have been slow to accept MU. An expert panel challenged radiologists to accept the challenge of MU and work to make it meaningful for radiology at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGO—RadLex, an informatics project sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), aims to provide a comprehensive lexicon of radiology terms, according to a presentation from the RadLex committee chairman at the RSNA annual meeting.

CHICAGO—The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has received a contract from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) that provides support to expand the NIBIB-funded pilot project that created the RSNA Image Share network. The contract provides two years of support at $5.3 million and two additional option years at $5.5 million.