If some form of practice consolidation is in your radiology practice’s present or future, you should know that many tactical errors are made around the difficulty of sharing information across disparate legacy PACS packages and other peripheral solutions used by newly conjoining practices, departments or organizations. 

Royal Philips announced it has expanded its IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition, which combines Philips Radiology, Cardiology portfolios and PerformanceBridge, to now include the new IntelliSpace Precision Medicine Oncology, IntelliSpace Precision Medicine Genomics and IntelliSpace Exchange solutions. 

Fujifilm will showcase its enterprise imaging and informatics solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Global Conference.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the appointment of Denise W. Hines, DHA, PMP, to their executive leadership team as Chief Americas Officer. Her appointment to the position will be effective in January 2019.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., continues to see growth in enterprise imaging. Fujifilm has secured four new contracts for the implementation of various products from its comprehensive Synapse Enterprise Imaging portfolio, including Synapse 5 PACS, Synapse 3D, Synapse VNA, Synapse Mobility Enterprise Viewer and Synapse Cardiovascular.

The Dev4Health Conference, a new joint initiative created by Health 2.0 and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), released an schedule for its inaugural gathering.

Lawrence Carl, MD, is the medical director for Main Street Radiology (MSR) in Queens, N.Y., a board-certified radiologist and assistant radiology professor at Weill Cornell. His medical director responsibilities include keeping an eye out for emerging technologies to positively impact workflow and patient care in outpatient radiology. To that end, Dr. Carl leads MSR administration and technology professionals to multiple educational events each year.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has come a long way since its first national convention in 1962, when it had a roster of 54 members, no “I” in its acronym and a grand total of $587.03 in the bank.