Findings from RSNA's Annual Meeting: 2013 May Be a Hinge Year for Imaging Informatics

Findings from RSNA's Annual Meeting: 2013 May Be a Hinge Year for Imaging Informatics PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 3, 2012 - Frost & Sullivan hosts complimentary webinar discussing the imaging informatics arena and 2012 hot spots MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WHEN: 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 LOCATION: Online, with complimentary registration SPEAKER: Frost & Sullivan Advanced Medical Technologies Principal Analyst Nadim Michel Daher As the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) comes to a close, the U.S. imaging informatics industry is caught between two opposing waves: money being drawn out of the country's medical imaging spending pool on one side, and the regaining of interest for enterprise healthcare informatics on the other side. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that a year characterized by the lack of game changing breakthroughs in imaging equipment technology coincides with the year when the third-generation picture archiving and communication systems (PACSs) become an industry reality. By generalizing the reliance on vendor-neutral archives (VNAs) and cloud computing, as well as leveraging electronic medical record (EMR) integration and system interoperability, the new generation of imaging informatics solutions will allow providers to aim for higher levels of information exchange and analytics, communication and collaboration, decision support, and quality of care.