RSNA has enrolled the first patients in RSNA Image Share, the society's project to develop a network for patients and physicians to share medical images.
Patients have been enrolled at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first of five pilot sites participating in RSNA Image Share to begin accepting patients. The other sites are the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Chicago Medical Center; and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
The sites will educate patients on establishing personal health record (PHR) accounts with healthcare providers that will enable patients to retrieve, view, archive, and share medical images, reports, and other documents. RSNA sees the project as facilitating access to medical images and reports, which could reduce unnecessary exams, reduce patient radiation exposure, and enable more informed medical decisions.
RSNA Image Share was launched in 2009 with a $4.7 million contract with the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). It was launched with the goal of building a secure medical imaging network based on common open-standards architecture that will enable patients to control access to their information through PHRs without relying on CDs.
