Dear Healthcare IT Insider,
I've just returned from RSNA 2008 in Chicago, having attended numerous scientific sessions and, at Lakeside Learning Center, reviewed many interesting posters.
Poster presentations are the most underattended component of the RSNA annual meeting, but some are real gems. Our Healthcare IT Insider Exclusive summarizes the findings from one such study, which evaluated how speech recognition technology affects the work habits of individual radiologists.
You won't be surprised, but I bet you'll find Dr. Arun Krishnaraj's results from a study conducted at the 700-bed University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill to be intriguing. Click here to learn more.
One poster that may have been overlooked by many RSNA attendees described a software product that we're betting will be on the exhibit floor next year. It automatically identifies and integrates faxed documents, even turning them right-side up, into patient folders on PACS, eliminating all mistakes associated with manual document scanning. If this concept intrigues you, read about the DICOM Fax Adder.
In other stories from the RSNA show, learn about how a Web-based radiology dashboard application helped users manage their practices by clicking here; meanwhile, Dr. Eliot Siegel of the University of Maryland in Baltimore describes his involvement with the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), an effort to create an informatics network enabling clinicians, researchers, and vendors in the cancer community to share data.
It is always gratifying to report a success story, such as the ability of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, to reduce its emergency imaging report turnaround times to less than one hour with the implementation of self-editing speech recognition technology. Find out how they did it by clicking here, or visit the Healthcare IT Digital Community.
Now if only three London hospitals whose networks experienced a major virus invasion had read our article on intrusion-detection software. Read about this event and shudder, and then reread how you can prevent this from happening to your hospital or imaging center. Bah, humbug.
Enjoy the seasonal activities of December, and happy New Year to you!
