Dear PACS Insider,
In today's fast-paced, high-volume, and often remote practice of radiology, it can be difficult to receive clinical follow-up on patients in any manner other than anecdotally.
In an effort to allow radiologists to perform this important process in a more prospective fashion, a team from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) developed a PACS software plug-in that allows users to mark interesting studies for which they'd like follow-up. The tool then performs an automated medical records search and provides e-mail notification to radiologists.
Dr. Thomas Urbania of UCSF described his institution's experience with the software tool at the 2008 RSNA meeting in Chicago, and you have access to our coverage of the presentation before it is published for the rest of our AuntMinnie.com members. To learn more about UCSF's experience, click here.
In other articles we're featuring from the RSNA meeting, be sure to check out consultant Michael J. Cannavo's 2008 PACSman Awards for his annual irreverent take on the PACS vendor scene at McCormick Place.
You might also be interested in research that found that an iPhone offered solid performance when used in diagnosing skeletal trauma cases. Staff writer Cynthia Keen has the coverage of that study, which you can access by clicking here.
Also, two presentations at the meeting shared insight into the importance of using high-grade medical media for DICOM CDs and the value of a protocol for efficient importing of these media.
Stay tuned for additional RSNA PACS coverage in the coming weeks in your PACS Digital Community. Do you have a topic you'd like to see covered, or are you interested in submitting an article to AuntMinnie.com? Please feel free to drop me a line.
Happy holidays from all of us at AuntMinnie.com!
