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:
1. Lessons learned from the Voice Recognition Dictation implementation.
2. Review of the Hologic Mammography project.
3. Updates on the cardiology project that we are about to embark on.
4. Review of what happened to Emageon this past year.
5. Discussion of the new Hi-res color monitors out on the market.
6. Using Macs for PACS
7. 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!!
-John
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