January 23, 2012 Joe Marion
Image Lifecyle Management promises to improve VNA's, but presents a number of challenges to the IT organization.
December 3, 2011 Joe Marion
Another Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference has come and gone. So what did Santa bring the Radiology community this year? In one word, my answer is the “communalization” of imaging!
November 23, 2011 Joe Marion
I have recently been involved in several client situations involving enterprise imaging, and after listening to all the “hype” I almost feel like I’m on the game show, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
October 24, 2011
About two weeks ago, Merge Healthcare (http://www.merge.com/) changed the game relative to image sharing cloud services! Over the past two years, a number of companies have been attempting to make a business model out of offering CD replacement services for sharing images.
October 19, 2011
I recently came across a posting on AuntMinnie.com regarding a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology ( AJR, October 2011, Vol. 197:4, pp. 1-5) that describes how “breast imaging reports generated with automated speech recognition software are eight times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription.”
September 20, 2011
This past week I read about the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) effort for something known as the Image Share Project, while at the same time I received some information from Merge Healthcare on Adopting an Enterprise Imaging Strategy.
August 16, 2011
I know it’s an interesting time of year for sports, particularly if you are a Wisconsinite such as me! (Need I mention the Packers or the Brewers?) Fortunately, I am not talking sports. I am speaking to experience with PHI in the cloud. I recently blogged on Google’s decision to exit the personal health storage business (Google Rains on the Cloud, June 30, 2011), and suggested it would be a boon to others in the market, such as Microsoft’s HealthVault.
August 2, 2011
I’ve been researching cloud applications lately, and based on my research, I am concerned that imaging services can quickly get confused by all the IT terminology mumbo jumbo! I thought I would take a stab at reviewing several options to raise awareness and make sure service providers understand where vendors are coming from.
June 30, 2011 Joe Marion
This week Google announced it is throwing in the towel on consumer health information storage and management. Does Google know something we don’t?
June 8, 2011
Recent dialog on image management reminds me of the Rorschach Ink Blot Test. Psychiatrists often use this test in interpreting personality traits, with different people seeing different things in the image. Perhaps the healthcare industry could use such a test when it comes to the perception of what is included in healthcare imaging, as healthcare IT personnel can quickly become confused in trying to address all the different needs.
