The American College of Radiology (ACR) Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) said that it has been chosen by the Society of Clinical Care Medicine (SCCM) to serve as the overall imaging repository for the SCCM's Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS) COVID-19 Registry.
The study aims to create a real-time registry of current infection patterns at intensive care units and hospitals to enable the evaluation of safety and observational effectiveness of COVID-19 practices, according to the ACR.
The ACR CRI will collect all diagnostic images for the VIRUS COVID-19 Registry, create a link between the images and clinical data collected by the SCCM, and archive images. These images will then be accessible to participating sites through combined dashboard reporting, according to the organization.
