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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | May 31, 2018
There are risks associated with the move into more use of such software, however.
“Patient data privacy and confidentiality issues, lack of data management capacities, and reluctance to migrate from conventional systems may hinder the growth of the global population health management solutions market to some extent,” the report also concluded.
An example of the type of step that gives a boost to further progress was highlighted during a May 29 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine webinar, moderated by SIIM Chair Paul Nagy, when a panel of contributors to the June issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging discussed the
new tools available in imaging informatics.
Steve Langer, a professor of diagnostic physics and imaging informatics at the Mayo Clinic, spoke about how he and colleagues have developed a way to access data on multiple imaging devices for research purposes.
“Suppose you want to know what the state of a given patient exam is, or you want to find certain types of studies for a research protocol,” Langer said. “You would have to go from machine to machine to find it.”
To address this challenge, the team developed what Langer called a Standardized Operational Log of Events (SOLE), which lets machines export system logs in a standard format to a central server, making it easier to do clinical workflow data mining or research.
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