“Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise” was the theme of the 2015 SIIM annual meeting, held May 28–30 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Because this ambitious endeavor entails providing EMR access to DICOM and non-DICOM images from every hospital department and satellite site in the healthcare enterprise, it was subject of a Town Hall meeting on the first day of the conference.

In his provocatively titled SIIM15 keynote, "The Next Imaging Evolution: A World Without PACS as We Know It," Donald K. Dennison, consultant, walked attendees through the market forces that are reconfiguring the world of imaging informatics.

Agfa HealthCare announced today the launch of its Enterprise Imaging Exchange Program which establishes a secure health information exchange network between multispecialty collaborating health providers to exchange and share medical imaging data.

A massive 2014 data breach of 1.1 million current and former CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield beneficiaries announced this week has security experts pondering how long companies should hold data.

As an early adopter of speech recognition technology in 2000, Richard H. Wiggins, III, MD, CIIP, FSIIM, witnessed a stunning reduction in turnaround times (TAT) at the University of Utah Health Care, Salt Lake City.

Of all scenarios in radiology that call for lightning-fast turnaround times coupled with absolute accuracy, few present the pressure of serving as the radiology group on call for in-season sports-injury studies.

The Minnesota Radiological Society (MRS) has launched the ACR Select™ online portal, which enables registered Minnesota physicians to consult radiology clinical decision support (CDS) in lieu of pre-authorization for imaging exams.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. has acquired TeraMedica, Inc., a global healthcare informatics company known for its vendor neutral archiving (VNA) technology. The company is now known as FUJIFILM TeraMedica, Inc.