Dear Healthcare IT Insider,
In today's economy, not everyone can attend national meetings that have a strong focus on imaging informatics. So it's nice to see daylong regional symposia happening.
This fall, there are two of note: Last month, the second annual New York Medical Imaging Informatics Symposium took place in Manhattan, and next week, on October 24, the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will hold its first regional meeting in San Francisco.
In fact, the next report from the New York City symposium is the Insider Exclusive for this newsletter. You'll want to read Dr. Khan Siddiqui's perspectives on the importance of radiologists and healthcare organizations adopting a patient-centric healthcare model. This also means that radiologists may need to begin communicating directly with their patients using IT.
Check back in the community next week for coverage of the San Francisco SIIM symposium.
Also from the New York City meeting: how to harness IT to tackle the volatile issue of keeping radiation dose exposure low, from the perspective of a radiology department chairman. Click here to read the insights of Dr. James Thrall from Massachusetts General Hospital.
Speech recognition dictation systems remain a controversial topic, as evidenced by reader interest in a recent article by associate editor Kate Madden Yee. The article describes a study on the likelihood of errors in breast imaging reports that are generated using the technology; if you missed the story, click here to learn more.
We also think the following articles are of special interest to the Healthcare IT Digital Community:
- Live coverage of a two-day U.S. Food and Drug Administration workshop on clinical decision-support software and approval of mobile medical apps, which you can access here and here
- Senior editor Erik L. Ridley's in-depth coverage of the RSNA's Image Share project
- Two U.S.-focused reports, one on how there may be a strong need for new radiology information systems, and the other concerning data security preparedness, or lack thereof
- A story on how using IT to automate the process of adding procedure codes to radiology reports may yield accuracy dividends
