Most radiology practices have not invited their CIOs onto the executive committee, but a recent surve1 from the Center for CIO Leadership suggests that it may be time to set another place at the table. A practice benefits not only from hiring a well-qualified CIO, but also from empowering that person to be a member of the core executive committee

Considerable benefits accrue to the institution when approaching PACS outside the radiology box.

Tired of sorting through attorney advertisements when you Google mesothelioma? Bookmark Yottalook, the search engine created by Khan Siddiqui, MD; Woojin Kim, MD; William Boonn, MD; and Nablie Safdar, MD. The creators used search algorithms to isolate and display only radiological content found in a Google search, but the tool is much more than a

The road to a distributed reading model is paved with WAN accelerators, DICOM gateways, and sleepless nights, to hear one practice CIO describe it. Nonetheless, three and a half years after he began building a distributed reading solution to support the subspecialty reading model of Columbus, Ohio-based Riverside Radiology, CIO Ron Hosenfeld sleeps

Why does it typically take several days to get a new modality up and running, from a connectivity perspective?

Maine is a sizable state geographically, but its extreme northeastern positioning takes it off the beaten path. It’s a place tailor-made for electronic transmission of radiological images, and Radiology Specialists of Maine (RSM) in Brunswick is turning to technology to expand coverage in ways that it hasn’t before. It may be something of a

There’s no single textbook, and no specified curriculum, but preparing for the certified imaging informatics professional (CIIP) examination just got a bit easier with the completion of the learning objectives for each of the 10 domains of the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII) Test Content Outline (TCO).

Paul Nagy, PhD, is director of quality and informatics research and associate professor of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. On November 27, 2007, he presented Developing the Infrastructure (Quality Control in Radiology) at the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago, with the stated goal of helping his audience