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| RSNA to develop medical image sharing network The Radiological Society of North America welcomed the world press to its 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, an international forum of peer-reviewed research, state-of-the-art technology and education for radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and allied scientists. This year's RSNA 2009 will be held on Sunday, Nov. 29, to Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Chicago. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced that it was awarded a $4.7 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to design and launch an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images. The network will facilitate access to imaging exams for patients and physicians, potentially reducing unnecessary examinations, minimizing patient radiation exposure and enabling better informed medical decisions. The network will be based on Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I), an integration profile developed under IHE. XDS-I is part of a family of IHE profiles developed to enable sharing of a variety of medical documents and data across a group of affiliated enterprises. In the first year of the two-year pilot, the aim is to establish image sharing in the clinical domain. Several medical research centers, including Mount Sinai, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the University of California - San Francisco, the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland in Baltimore, are set to participate. Participating sites will also educate patients on personal health records (PHR), including establishing PHR accounts with selected providers that will enable patients to retrieve, view, archive and share medical images, reports and other medical documents, creating a detailed medical history accessible through any secure Internet connection. The IHE initiative was launched in 1997 by RSNA and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. It now has nearly 300 member organizations, including sponsoring organizations in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Exhibition News :: home page |