Dear AuntMinnie Member,
CHICAGO - As this year's RSNA meeting winds down, one fact appears clear: Big iron's dominance of radiology is ending as imaging informatics takes on an increasingly prominent role.
It's been a slow process, for sure. But most of the buzz in the halls of McCormick Place came not from launches of new CT and MRI scanners -- which were few and far between -- but from healthcare IT-related initiatives, such as new cloud-based services and big-data analytics efforts.
Even PACS, the radiology specialty's pioneering effort that moved an entire medical specialty from analog to the digital age, seems passé now given the recent advances in informatics and the growing control that hospital IT departments wield over purchasing.
This year's meeting marks the end of the centennial celebration of RSNA's first meeting 100 years ago, and the society fittingly shifted the focus from radiology's past to its future. As RSNA 2015 showed, that future will be more about bits and bytes than big iron.
While he hasn't been around for 100 years (yet), the one and only PACSman, Michael J. Cannavo, once again brings his sardonic eye to a review of the technical exhibits at RSNA 2015. Read his article by clicking here.
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