Dear PACS Insider,
He's back. After a two-year stint in industry, longtime AuntMinnie.com contributor Michael J. Cannavo, aka the PACSman, is once again offering advice as an independent PACS consultant.
Cannavo learned quite a bit from his time with a major PACS vendor, and he will be sharing his observations for AuntMinnie.com readers in a new editorial series called Straight Talk From the PACSman.
He shares the top 10 lessons he learned in the first column of the series and this newsletter's Insider Exclusive, which you can access before our regular members.
In other articles in the PACS Digital Community, researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that a mobile image-viewing app on an iPad could help clinicians access images faster without sacrificing diagnostic confidence or ease of use. For the details, click here.
Speaking of mobile apps, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its final guidance on mobile medical apps late last month, more than two years after it issued a draft proposal. Radiology apps will be a focus area for the agency, according to our coverage.
And how will the FDA treat mobile apps designed for referring physicians to review medical images? Click here to find out.
Radiologic technologists have their own needs and perceptions toward PACS that need to be taken into account to ensure success with digital image management. Taiwanese researchers recently determined what it takes for technologists to be satisfied with PACS.
Although PACS is nearly ubiquitous these days, aspects of electronic image management can still be a source of frustration for many radiologists. A pilot study conducted by the American College of Radiology's Image Metrix imaging contract research organization found that all five radiologists surveyed were dissatisfied with their workstation software. What bothered them in particular? Find out here.
Integrating imaging informatics into a large health system can be a real challenge. In presentations at the New York Medical Imaging Informatics Symposium in New York City in September, Dr. Jesse Chusid of the North Shore - LIJ Health System and Evan Jackson of Yale New Haven Health System described their system's respective journeys, which you can read about here and here.
Patent litigation between teleradiology giant Virtual Radiologic and a group of former employees who started their own firm has also ensnared some of the new firm's clients, who believe that Virtual Radiologic may have competitive motives for filing the litigation. Get the details here.
Do you have an idea for a topic you'd like to see covered? As always, please feel free to drop me a line.
