Dear PACS Insider,
Radiation dose monitoring is a hot topic these days, but it can be difficult for institutions to implement for a variety of technical reasons.
Seeking to address many of these challenges, a team from the University of Aveiro in Portugal recently developed Dose Center, a Web-based automatic and cross-institutional dose monitoring and analytics software platform. Click here to learn more.
Issues surrounding teleradiology figure prominently in other coverage this month in our PACS Community. A spirited debate on the pros and cons of teleradiology outsourcing livened up the second day of last month's U.K. Radiological Congress. Editor-in-Chief Philip Ward was on hand to report on the discussion, and you can access his coverage here.
While teleradiology outsourcing is increasingly becoming a reality, the practice can lead to the loss of valuable radiographers. As a result, it's important to get your CT radiographers on board before you even start outsourcing on-call, according to Dr. George McGinnes, U.K. medical adviser at the Telemedicine Clinic and consultant radiologist and clinical director at Poole Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust. Click here for his other recommendations for imaging departments that are considering outsourcing on-call coverage.
Thanks to digitization and the rising level of automation in image acquisition, some radiographer jobs will disappear, according to German healthcare IT consultant Michael Engelhorn. However, new professions are emerging, including data analysts who handle research and queries in patient repositories, as well as collaboration managers responsible for managing technology required for smooth communication workflow, according to our report from contributing writer Michael Reiter.
If you have any tips or suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered in the PACS Community, please feel free to drop me a line.
