True value comes to digital imaging via mining of medical databases

January 1, 2009 Diagnostic Imaging. Vol. 31 No. 1 True value comes to digital imaging via mining of medical databases BY JOHN C. HAYES, EDITOR For most of the past 15 years or so, radiologists joining the digital revolution have focused on getting their images into the PACS—and out again, properly annotated with a report. For many today, that's still the primary function of a RIS and PACS. That's changing rapidly. Though still largely the province of large academic institutions, data mining that adds analysis to the process information collected by the PACS, the RIS, and the electronic medical record is proving to be a pathway to better care.

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