SPECT/MR debuted this week at the SNMMI annual meeting as a new preclinical hybrid molecular imaging system with promises of higher resolution and lower dose.

The best way to maximize clinical adoption of a new enterprise viewer would be to get physicians involved in the selection process, IT officials said at SIIM 2013.

The use of mobile technologies in healthcare continues to grow, with staff accessing data on their own devices.

Waiting to jump head-first into the federal government’s meaningful use program? That might not be a bad idea, David Avrin, MD, said at SIIM.

Clinical decision support can assist multiple times in the medical imaging chain to improve efficiency and patient care, according to experts at SIIM 2013.

Very few HIEs transfer medical images, but that data together with an exchange approach that aggregates patient data will reveal HIE’s potential, say experts at SIIM 2013.

Certified imaging informatics professionals have gained ground in radiology and are a major topic at SIIM. Paul Nagy, PhD, explains how they can transform radiology practice.

IT experts, who will be presenting at the SIIM annual meeting, offer advice on how radiology practices can survive EMR implementation.

In this series, 10 Questions, we ask the same questions to a diverse group of professionals who work in medical imaging. Taking a cue from Twitter, we’ve limited each respondent’s answers to 140 characters.

Another kind of March Madness is happening in healthcare as we see a rush to implement accountable care organizations. Radiology needs to be an active player.

Richard Abramson, MD, discusses how accountable care organizations could be an opportunity for radiology to reassert its value to health systems.

Interventional radiology and radiation oncology should merge again, with the development of a new certification: image-targeted oncology.

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