Will the role of radiology in the healthcare of tomorrow be central or peripheral? The continued evolution of IT solutions is likely to be the catalyst propelling radiology either into the limelight or the shadows. The shadows analogous to a laborious but unchallenging delivery of lab results, whereas the limelight corresponds to an integrated, highly …

Clinical perspective, Wide area radiology Dr. Claes Lundström, Michael J. Cannavo, PACS-Neutral archives, Vendor-Neutral Archives

Imagine if there wasn’t a device for navigating images, and we had to invent one. What would it look like? Who knows, but it probably wouldn’t be anything as counter-intuitive as today’s keyboard and mouse. At Sectra, we devote a great deal of time to designing the best possible tools for interacting with data. Equipped …

Clinical perspective Sectra Visualization Table, User interface

Higher efficiency means more value for money, but it is also connected to increased job satisfaction. Every time we simplify an unnecessarily complicated and drawn-out task, we reduce frustration. After all, every second saved on frequently repeated tasks adds up to a great deal of freed-up time.
Imagine if there wasn’t a device for navigating among …

Clinical perspective Dr. Claes Lundström, User interface

If not stop, we can certainly treat and delay the disease. In many cases to the extent that women will not suffer from a fracture during their lifetime. Some even argue that medicines just as well can be added to the food and …

Clinical perspective, Women's health Osteoporosis, STOP

I have presented the predictive capabilities of DXR to doctors numerous times. This is the message: In an RA population the one who lose bone has an increased risk to get erosions up to 10 years later compared to the one who do …

Clinical perspective Rheumatoid Arthritis

Returning from EULAR in Rome one might ask what is clinical practice and what is research? Models and predictors of future disease outcome are presented in different forms and variations. The outcome (what the models try to predict) changes between studies, is it …

Clinical perspective DXR, Rheumatoid Arthritis

From a digital hand radiograph and an Internet connection all doctors can find patients in risk of erosions in RA and future fractures in Osteoporosis. Send an image to dxr-online and we will return with decision support.
This is the beginning of something new. We have been working on this for a while and think online …

Clinical perspective DXR, OneScreen, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Current trends in healthcare call for an image handling strategy for all medical disciplines. Images constitute an important decision support with a huge cost-savings potential; when handled efficiently, the gains become even clearer.
At County Södermanland Hospitals in Sweden, Cecilia Halvardson, Manager healthcare systems at the IT department, and her team recently decided to implement an …

Clinical perspective multi-disciplinary image strategy, patient perspective, Sectra Image Central

An interesting session on image compression was held at ECR Thursday March 4:
“Image compression: Acceptable? Unacceptable? Any decision yet?”.
Dr David Koff presented results from the impressively thorough national Canadian evaluation*. Seen as a summary of the Radiology community’s view on image compression, the session reflected a refreshingly pragmatic view on how to use image …

Clinical perspective data explosion, Dr. Claes Lundström, PACS trends

Anders Persson and Anders Ynnerman at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Linköping, Sweden (CMIV) are honoured with the Athena Prize for their development of new advanced methods regarding visualization and medical imaging. The most noted project is the application of virtual autopsies, which is already in use in forensic science.
The Athena Prize …

Clinical perspective Athena Prize, CMIV, Dr. Anders Persson, Virtual autopsy