Keyboard and mouse, the basic tools for image manipulation in the digital environment, were tossed out with surprisingly good results in a pair of research studies presented Thursday.

One way to improve patient care is to expand PACS image acquisition outside the radiology department, attendees at a SCAR scientific session learned this afternoon.

The first large-scale research PACS has surfaced at Partners Healthcare in Boston. The CIRAS (clinical image repository access system) was described as a “research goldmine” at the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology meeting.

Changing PACS vendors after a long relationship can provoke nearly as much stress as the original courtship. A morning session at the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology meeting in Orlando detailed factors to consider in an impending breakup and prenuptials to prepare for the next marriage.

Help has arrived for radiologists who want to make the best use of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise integration profiles when selecting and implementing informatics technology. The IHE released a radiology-specific handbook at the SCAR meeting that guides readers in the use of IHE profiles, said Kevin O’Donnell, co-chair of the IHE radiology planning committee.

The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology celebrated its quarter century milestone with a new tagline, a headquarters move, and a look into space during the opening session Thursday of its annual meeting in Orlando.

The urgent need to more efficiently manage the volume and flow of images in the radiology and medical fields has grown dramatically as scanning technology has evolved.

The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology will celebrate its silver anniversary at this year's annual meeting in Orlando with a new look. In a move designed to reposition itself in the changing world of electronic imaging, the society will unveil a new tagline at the conference next month: Innovating Imaging Informatics.

Events of last August -- when three widespread infestations of computer worms attacked Windows-based systems -- illustrated the vulnerabilities of many medical applications, including PACS.The pressing need for software patches was also revealed. Yet

While digital imaging management through PACS is an accepted technology in radiology, it remains a foreign concept in other areas of medicine, and vendors may have struggles ahead as they try to expand into new fields. Those struggles were outlined

The phone rings in the PACS support center -- an irate user wonders why the workstation is so slow this morning. The PACS administrator has already failed, a SCAR University Productivity and Workflow audience was told Saturday morning.It's a question

The general agreement that quality assurance is essential to the production of diagnostic-quality digital images lays a foundation for inclusion of QA specialists on employee rosters."It is time to establish and implement functioning QA specialists in

Good afternoon, KMart shoppers, don't miss our spring hospital PACS special in the electronics department. Buy two, get one free.It hasn't quite come to that, but anyone interested in purchasing PACS on a shoestring budget would have appreciated Paul

Estrangements between PACS customers and PACS vendors may be awkward, but a number of filmless hospitals are finding it necessary to initiate divorce proceedings against their original PACS suppliers."We're beginning to see PACS divorces in the

The advent of the electronic medical record is redefining the radiologist's place in the traditional healthcare care chain by transforming traditional morphological descriptions into radiological consultations, according to researchers at the University

Until recently, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative was actually more of an integrating the radiology enterprise.Of the 18 existing integration profiles, 14 pertain to radiology, including the first 12, exposing the IHE's radiology

Digital mammography provides a springboard from which new imaging techniques are developed to address current limitations in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer."The presence of the increased quantitative quality of the data acquired in these

Changes in the way medicine is practiced are imminent, and the increasing costs of care are driving those changes. One way to meet the challenge head-on is to move to a fully automated healthcare system, starting with the electronic medical record,

The radiology residents were a dowdy and pathetic pair. Richie couldn't jump, a problem that kept him from playing on the radiology department basketball team. Amy had no rhythm and couldn't dance, and thus risked losing her true love, a Latin salsa

GREAT FALLS, VA -- Physicians, administrators, technologists, physicists, industry leaders, and information specialists come together once a year at the annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology to discuss the crucial