Stamford, C.T., May 28, 2015 (Booth#237) – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with its latest acquisition of TeraMedica, Inc., by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) on May 28 – May 30 in Washington, D.C.

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. The solution will be on display at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 26-31, 2015, in Washington, DC.

Chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee Richard H. Wiggins III, MD, FSIIM, CIIP, opened the meeting with an overview of the learning domains that rounded out this year’s theme, “Creating the Image Enabled Enterprise,” May 28–30, 2015, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.

An issue that surfaced repeatedly during the recent annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine had very little to do with imaging informatics technology and everything to do with how that technology is implemented: governance.

“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.