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Final Days for Preliminary Reads?

Sharing Images

SIR 2013 Reporter's Notebook

New Imaging Dye Outperforms
Current Dyes

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Patients' Hearts

Health Clinics Struggle to Meet Demands, Cut Costs

A Different Kind of Medical Imaging

Worth Repeating

“Radiologists tend to report on everything, so if a nodule is found the report is likely to say, 'Cannot rule out lung cancer,' even if the nodule is not all that suspicious. If those words are in the report, they are all the patient will focus on.”

— Frank C. Detterbeck, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine, in an interview with MedPage Today on the American College of Chest Physicians’ guidelines on CT screening for lung cancer

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The first time I attended SIIM (it was actually still SCAR in 2004), the meeting was more about making PACS work than making it work for you. Since then the field has grown up and out across the enterprise. The meeting has evolved from a radiology department PACS users group to an enterprisewide imaging event that focuses both on the nuts and bolts of acquiring and using digital images and bigger picture trends in the field.

With that in mind, this month’s E-News Exclusive focuses on five things at SIIM 2013 that may suggest the direction the field is headed.

— Jim Knaub, editor

Five Things to Watch at SIIM 2013
By Jim Knaub

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meetings offer an always-interesting look at what’s happening and what’s likely to happen in radiology from the imaging informatics perspective. Radiology Today will be attending SIIM 2013, and the following is a preview of what we think some of the most interesting topics will be at this year’s meeting in Grapevine, Texas.

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