What a busy year. The organization I am currently supporting has undergone some major changes. We had a major upgrade to the MediTech HIS/RIS (Client Server), we’ve implemented digital mammography and voice recognition dictation, and just signed the order for our second generation Cardiology PACS. Oh yeah, another PACS merger as well. Because of all the projects, this was the first time I’ve missed the SIIM conference but I will be returning next year up in Minneapolis and hope to provide live updates like I did from the 2008 conference in Seattle.
Because of the high volume of work, I have been lax in spending the needed amount of time creating content to stimulate discussion on the JS PACS website. However, with the New Year upon us, I am renewing my commitment to push this page forward and making it useful for the community.
Our membership has grown from 75 in mid 2009 to 125 registered members today. With that many people, we should have enough people to generate some interesting conversation and I offer each of you the opportunity to post in our discussion forum, or share a story that can be published on the front page of the web site.
Some topics that I plan on writing about in the first few months of 2010 include:Â
- Lessons learned from the Voice Recognition Dictation implementation.
- Review of the Hologic Mammography project.
- Updates on the cardiology project that we are about to embark on.
- Review of what happened to Emageon this past year.
- Discussion of the new Hi-res color monitors out on the market.
- Using Macs for PACS
- Topics based on suggestions or contributions from other members.
I hope this last post of 2009 finds your systems running well, you in good health and facing good projections for 2010.
Happy New Year!!
-JohnÂ
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