Dear PACS Insider,
PACS audit logs are useful for ensuring compliance with HIPAA. But they can also yield a veritable treasure trove of data for those seeking to improve radiology department operations.
In a pair of presentations at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, representatives from Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and Staten Island University Hospital in New York City shared their respective experiences with mining their PACS audit data.
At LSU, analysis and tracking of audit logs have produced measurable quality improvements, while Staten Island has benefited from access to real-time statistics and a radiologist locator tool.
Our coverage of the PACS audit talks is the subject of this month's PACS Digital Community Insider Exclusive article, which you can access before it's published for the rest of our AuntMinnie.com members. To learn more about the potential of utilizing these data for quality improvement in radiology, click here.
In other articles we're featuring this month, hard-copy prints were found to help orthopedic surgeons adjust to digital imaging. Learn if the use of PACS software can lead to data loss in digital radiography images. And, differences with even modest 3D JPEG 2000 compression ratios can be visually perceived on thin-slice CT images, according to a new study.
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.
