Ms. PACS: Has anyone seen him? The PACSman, I mean. I filed a missing person's report, posted his face on a milk carton, but still no sign of him. But of course, he must be moonlighting on some other blog.

May 27, 2010 - On-demand conversational documentation services are helping health care providers capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. These tools provide comprehensive yet adaptable solutions for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded and shareable medical documents.

May 27, 2010 - Finding ways to streamline the radiologists' workflow is critical today as reimbursement cuts for imaging studies force radiologists to read a greater number of exams.

May 27, 2010 - SonoSite Inc., a developer of bedside and point-of-care ultrasound, will acquire Visualsonics, a privately held company focused on high-frequency micro-ultrasound technology, for an aggregate value of $71 million net of cash and debt.

May 27, 2010 - Researchers found radiologists have shown improvement in their ability to discriminate between cancerous and non-cancerous lesions over a nine-year period. Results of the study are published in the online edition of the journal Radiology.

May 27, 2010 - Breast-conserving therapy is a viable treatment option for African-American women, although they tend to have more advanced breast cancer at diagnosis, according to a study available online, which will be in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer.

May 26, 2010 - Cloud-based services, including access to picture archive and communication systems (PACS), are creating a new paradigm for users as well as creating a new business model.

A cloud environment enables ubiquitous access to programs, reduces the dependence on the users' bandwidth and computer power, and eliminates the danger of obsolescence.

May 26, 2010 – Radiologist Ronald Cooper, M.D., borrowed $1.5 million to buy and expand services at a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility in Vero Beach, Fla. Cooper is among the 5,000 doctors, dentists and health care providers who have borrowed more than $2.5 billion in government-backed loans under the economic stimulus law.

May 25, 2010 - Radiologists expect disparate clinical information technology (IT) systems to be interoperable and allow them to exchange images and contextual data with referring physicians and other specialists.

To enable interoperability, information management systems are building standards-based health level seven- (HL7) compliant interfaces.

May 25, 2010 - Attendees will learn how to leverage radiology, cardiology and image-processing tools to improve workflow efficiency and enhance the delivery of patient care at the the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2010 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, June 3 to 6.

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