Consolidation and change are roiling the healthcare marketplace, and the repercussions are being felt throughout the vendor landscape, including the vibrant imaging IT segment that is so fundamental to the practice of 21st century radiology.

For all its high-tech gadgets, tools, prompts, aids and reminders, the modern radiology report really isn’t all that different from the first of its kind, rendered as a longhand note.

Those who think PACS optimization ends following a successful implementation should think again: Thirteen years after Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health implemented Synapse PACS, the work is ongoing to keep 50-plus radiologists happy and maximally productive.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit healthcare organization, have collaborated on a new program to increase compliance and consistency within the healthcare marketplace, the organizations announced this week at the RSNA 2015 annual meeting in Chicago.

Like so many elves—plumbers is the analogy used by Daniel L. Rubin, MD—at work, a few dozen radiologists took a terminology for coding procedures created by the ACR for teaching purposes and developed it over the past decade into not just a common language but a complete ontology for the specialty of radiology: RadLex.

When the merger and acquisition frenzy catches up to your organization, will it cause headaches for your imaging workflows?

William Boonn, MD, had barely begun his career as a radiologist when his department colleagues started approaching him and fellow IT-savvy radiologist Woojin Kim, MD, with questions about analytics and data-mining. And why not?

The sun, the moon and some bright minds were working overtime on the southern shore of Lake Erie the last weekend in September. The occasion was the first-ever Cleveland Medical Hackathon.