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Dear PACS Insider,

Document management is always an important issue, but it's not a good idea for radiology departments to scan documents and store them in a PACS or RIS, according to Herman Oosterwijk, president of healthcare imaging and IT consulting firm OTech.

In a recent column, Mr. Oosterwijk explains why that's a bad decision, and he shares suggestions for the best approach to delivering long-term and patient-centric document management.

In other PACS Digital Community news, the topic of lossy compression ratios is the focus of this newsletter's Insider Exclusive. Greek researchers believe they may have found a better way to determine the optimal compression ratio for digital mammograms. For that article, click here.

Japanese researchers also concluded that several PACS viewing software applications were prone to dropping image slices when paging at a high speed during stack mode. Find out the details here.

Time is of the essence when it comes to treating stroke patients, and the smartphone is showing value as a tool for vascular neurologists. A team from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona found strong agreement between brain CT scan interpretations by vascular neurologists viewing images on a smartphone and those performed by radiologists using PACS workstations.

Also, associate editor Cynthia E. Keen has the details on a statewide imaging repository taking off in New South Wales in Australia. Journey Down Under by clicking here.

Do you have a topic you'd like to see covered or are you interested in submitting an article? Please feel free to drop me a line.

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