Dear Imaging Informatics Insider,
While imaging informatics is, of course, a small part of the discussion at the rapidly growing Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting, it was evident that market interest is continuing to blossom in enterprise imaging and vendor-neutral archives.
PACS consultant Michael J. Cannavo shares his own analysis of HIMSS 2015, along with a special HIMSS edition of his PACSman Awards, in our Insider Exclusive. You can access the article before our regular members by clicking here.
Educational sessions on enterprise imaging drew noticeably more attendees at this year's meeting. In one talk at McCormick Place, Trent Conwell of Sentara Healthcare shared some lessons that the nonprofit healthcare organization has learned on its path to enterprise imaging. Click here for our coverage.
Healthcare IT professionals are increasingly focusing on IT initiatives geared toward patient engagement, according to a survey released at the Chicago meeting. Click here to get all the details.
Meanwhile, healthcare organizations are frequently turning to mobile technologies to accomplish goals of engaging more with patients. But are these tools delivering on their promise? Not always, according to another article we're featuring from the show.
Stay tuned for continuing coverage of HIMSS 2015 in the coming weeks.
In other news in the Imaging Informatics Community, French researchers recently explored the utility of an overnight teleradiology service for emergency ultrasound studies. What did they conclude? Click here to find out.
Also, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation found that the effectiveness of clinical decision-support software fundamentally differs based on the type of software being used. Click here for our coverage by Kate Madden Yee.
Finally, Dave Whitney of Ascendian Healthcare Consulting shares how enterprise imaging transformation can enable healthcare organizations to provide quality care cost-effectively, while Stephen Holloway of market research and consulting firm IHS discusses how enterprise IT can benefit radiologists.
Is there a topic you'd like to see covered? As always, please feel free to drop me a line.
