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| Sunday, May 6 |
SCAR roadshow illustrates IHE solutions
The Second City Players, lead by Dr. David Channin of Northwestern University, entertained members of a SCAR audience who may have thought they were attending a routine session on leveraging IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise). Channin had other ideas. Seven times
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| Sunday, May 6 |
Interest grows in radiology informatics fellowships
Fellowships in radiology informatics are catching on. Right now perhaps half a dozen radiology residents are in or are planning this spring to enter radiology informatics fellowships at three institutions. At its annual meeting last week, however, SCAR announced that
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| Sunday, May 6 |
How not to design a reading room
While the radiology department at the Baltimore VA Medical Center (BVAMC), the first in the country to go filmless, can boast more than seven years of PACS experience, they have also suffered more years of poor reading room design than any
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| Saturday, May 5 |
Online image library could make reference image searches a snap
Efforts to create an Internet-based global image repository that is as easy to search as Google and as simple to exchange files through as Napster have met with limited success. Most image repositories are confined to a single facility or integrated
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| Saturday, May 5 |
Irreversibly compressed images keep diagnostic value
Increasing evidence suggests that some forms of irreversible (lossy) compression of digital images can be used with no measurable degradation in either diagnostic or aesthetic value, said Dr. Bradley J. Erickson of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Saturday during SCARýs first
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Daily images from the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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SCAR attendees during a scientific session Saturday on systems and workflow.
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