Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The 2014 edition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting is underway in Orlando, FL, and AuntMinnie.com has reporters on the scene, bringing you the latest news from healthcare IT's largest confab.
First up is Senior Editor Erik L. Ridley's article on how the Cleveland Clinic is benefiting from the installation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA). The institution wanted to find a way to reduce its reliance on a single PACS vendor for storing medical images, while at the same time enabling nonradiology images to be viewed through its electronic medical record.
All of Cleveland Clinic's images, regardless of the medical service line, are now being captured and archived in the VNA, where they can be accessed through a common viewer. Learn more about how they did it by clicking here.
Check back throughout the week for more coverage of HIMSS 2014, or follow our Twitter feed, @AuntMinnie, for live updates.
Radiologist tweeter Dr. Garry Choy
While we're on the subject of Twitter, we're also featuring the newest profile in our series on radiologists who tweet: Dr. Garry Choy of Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Choy has the second largest following among radiologists on Twitter (second only to our first featured tweeter, Dr. Richard Duszak), and he has a special focus on healthcare IT, telemedicine, healthcare management, and quality improvement.
He enjoys Twitter because it enables him to connect with other healthcare professionals, but he also sees it as a great way to follow conferences. Learn more about Dr. Choy and read his advice for those thinking about jumping into Twitter by clicking here.
More on resident slots
Finally, we're revisiting the debate over how many radiology residents we should be training with a new article in our Residents Digital Community.
The story profiles a recent discussion, sparked by the weak job market for radiologists, on whether the number of radiology resident slots should be reduced to avoid saturating the job market. Learn why this may not be a great idea by clicking here, or visit the Residents Digital Community at residents.auntminnie.com.
