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Top 10 from SIIM
2012
From The Editor |  | SIIM 2012: A changing of the guard?
by Lisa Fratt There was a familiar cast at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging informatics in Medicine in Orlando, Fla. As in
previous years, Katherine Andriole, Paul Chang, Keith Dreyer, Ramin Khorasani and Eliot Siegel and other imaging informatics giants shared their knowledge with an eager audience. This year, the statesmen (or statespeople) of SIIM shared the stage with a group of newcomers--the millennials, who
offered a fresh and futuristic perspective. |
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 | Featured Stories | SIIM: Millennials peer into the future
ORLANDO, Fla.--In the next decade, imaging will become more data-driven, personalized and safe. Radiologists will harness
new tools and technologies to be more responsive to referring physicians and patients, according to a panel of young radiologists who presented "The Millennials Vision: The World as It Could Be," on June 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). |
SIIM: Siegel details wish list for next-generation PACS
ORLANDO, Fla.--Samuel J. Dwyer, PhD, the father of PACS, might be surprised by the slow rate of innovation in PACS, RIS and speech recognition systems, Eliot L. Siegel, MD, told the audience during the 2012 Dwyer Lecture June 8 at the annual meeting of the
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). While Siegel outlined his specifications for a next-generation PACS, Paul J. Chang, MD, was much less patient, stating: "I want it now." | SIIM: Can social media prevent a $34M loss? And build physician HIT buy-in?
ORLANDO, Fla.--In 2002, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles faced a health IT
fiasco. The medical center invested $34 million in a computerized physician order entry system based on minimal physician input. Clinical staff revolted and the project was scrapped after three months. Savvy use of social media can not only help health IT leaders circumvent such losses but also
build clinical buy-in, according to a June 7 presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). |
SIIM: Pros & cons of in-hospital tablets
ORLANDO, Fla.--It's necessary to understand the use cases and advantages and disadvantages of tablets to use them in a powerful way, said Carl Miller, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions in Baltimore, during a June 9 presentation about mobile technologies at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). |
SIIM: CDS transforms
radiology from chump to champion
ORLANDO, Fla.--Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, home to the Center for Evidence-Based Imaging, is a clinical decision support (CDS) pioneer and
may be the original CDS success story. For more than a decade, the hospital has been building and implementing CDS systems, and its architects have learned more than few lessons along the way. | SIIM: Is MU Stage 2 a win for radiology?
ORLANDO, Fla.--Since its launch more than two years ago, meaningful use (MU) has been plagued by myths. One of the more
pervasive, detrimental and long-standing myths is that radiology practices cannot fulfill the criteria, said Arun Krishnaraj, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, during a June 7 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. However,
practices can and have met MU. What's more, Stage 2 could prove additionally meaningful for radiology, according to Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chair of informatics at MGH. |
SIIM: Time
to hop on the social media train
ORLANDO, Fla.--The social media train has left the station, according to Safwan S. Halabi, MD, of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Practices need to
get onboard, he said. Otherwise, physicians and medical practices will be defined, perhaps negatively, by outsiders. During a June 7 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), Halabi urged attendees to understand and control social media. |
SIIM: Inside the ACR Dose Index Registry
ORLANDO, Fla.--What does it take to improve performance? Some of the simplest strategies include competition and observation. Both angles apply to the American College of Radiology (ACR) dose index registry. |
SIIM: Experts outline the promise and peril of quantitative imaging
ORLANDO, Fla.--Quantitative imaging represents imaging's next great frontier, according to its proponents. Skeptics, however, question whether these techniques are ready for prime time. Luciano M.S. Prevedello, MD, of Brigham & Women's Hospital
in Boston, and Adam E. Flanders, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, shared the optimists' and pessimists' views on quantitative imaging during a June 8 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). |
SIIM: Top 10 strategies for CT dose reduction
ORLANDO, Fla.--Perspective is critical in the radiation exposure discussion. Aaron D. Sodickson, MD, PhD, of Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, shared the bucket analogy during a June 9 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging
Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). "[Cancer] risk from radiation exposure is a drop in the bucket. But we need to know how full the bucket is, how quickly we are adding to it and the size of drops." | | |
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