Making a large initial investment in a storage archive solution is usually not a priority for facilities strapped for capital budgets. Still, there is increased pull for general digital imaging and archiving solutions because data storage has become business critical.

More so than in previous years at RSNA, has the imaging informatics arena been less dominated by PACS, and more by new advanced visualization and analytics solutions such as 3D/4D imaging, CAD and multimodality image fusion.