Dear Imaging Informatics Insider,
Welcome to the first Insider of our new Imaging Informatics Community, which consolidates our previous PACS and Healthcare IT communities into one easy-to-access resource for all of the latest news on imaging informatics topics.
This month's Insider Exclusive covers efforts by South Korean researchers to tackle the problem of radiologists having to manually input measurements of regions of interest from PACS displays into radiology reports.
Making use of optical character recognition software and a macro program, the group's method was 100% accurate and yielded significant time savings. Click here to access our coverage before it's available to our regular members.
In other featured articles, PACS consultant Michael J. Cannavo has returned with another edition of his Straight Talk From the PACSman series. In his latest article, Mr. Cannavo takes a close look at whether PACS will continue to survive as its own health IT discipline. He believes it can, but only if vendors and customers can change some of their ways.
A column recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association made the case that a new proposal to create interstate medical licenses could boost access to care in underserved areas and stimulate the growth of telemedicine.
Finally, decision-support software can help radiologists accurately and consistently suggest appropriate follow-up imaging studies, according to researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital. Learn about their experience by clicking here.
Is there a topic you'd like to see covered in the Imaging Informatics Community? As always, please feel free to drop me a line.
