Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced the publication of the new edition of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard, which provides capabilities that allow digital imaging technologies to interact seamlessly. The updated edition of the international standard includes an extensible markup language (XML) representation of the standard.

With the clock ticking on stage 2—and many vendors struggling to obtain 2014 certification—CMS and ONC propose letting providers use the 2011 Edition of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to attest to Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use of health IT in 2014.

You won’t find any of the apps developed at the SIIM Hackathon available at the iTunes store, but the event provided a great test kitchen for shiny, new, Web-friendly versions of DICOM and HL7 that promise to speed the development of applications for medical imaging while preserving a DICOM standard-based backend.

When Meadville Medical Center (MMC), Meadville, Pa., decided in 2013 to replace its legacy PACS, the 235-bed facility faced an issue common to community hospitals nationwide.

Big data means big work ahead for imaging informaticists if they are to accomplish the potential transformation of radiology, says Katherine P. Andriole, PhD, FSIIM, director of imaging informatics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston.

The “internet increasingly is a swamp,” says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka in a recorded interview with Information Security Media Group, prompting the prominent CIO to focus in 2014 on what he calls “increased security maturity” throughout the healthcare enterprise.

The ACR makes a strong case for the inclusion of appropriateness criteria linked to clinical decision support (CDS) in computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in its comment letter on proposed 2015 edition EHR certification criteria from the Office of the National Coordinator of HIT.

(Eagan, MN) April 23, 2014 - Sorna Corporation, a global leader in digital medical image and data sharing systems, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against PACSGEAR, Incorporated, a California corporation. The case was filed in United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.