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Accusoft is on a whirlwind global tour this week with stops in Hanover, Germany (CeBIT); New Orleans (HIMSS) and San Francisco (SPTechCon).  At the beginning of the week we sent teams all over the globe to meet face-to-face with you. Here’s a brief overview of the trade shows we’re exhibiting at:

HIMSS – New Orleans, USA

HIMSS is back in New Orleans at the Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center in New Orleans for the first time since 2007.  HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

“I am making great contacts and capturing a good amount of promising leads.” Patrick McElerney, Business Development Manager. “I enjoy seeing what is new, and meeting with customers and prospects,” added Will Clonts, Senior Business Development Manager. One of the more popular solutions at HIMSS has been the Prizm Content Connect HTML5 document viewer.

Read more on our global adventures.

Happy New Year! Here are few stories that caught our attention during the first week of 2013. The articles this week include the 5 big trends you’ll see at CES, what to expect in imaging software in radiology for 2013, the hard truth about cloud differences, designing enterprise mobile apps and more.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

5 Big Trends You'll See at CES 2013 - Mashable
By Pete Pachal

Despite its uncertain future, the annual CES is always the year's first taste of the new technologies that will define it. With hundreds of companies peddling thousands of products, it's easy to get lost in the noise of pre-show chatter, but out of the chaos, various patterns are emerging, and some will grow to become bona fide "trends." International CES 2013 officially begins on Tuesday, Jan. 8, but like the presidential primaries, companies are unveiling new products earlier and earlier in advance of the show in order to be heard before the din of the show gets too loud. LG, for example, began announcing TV news as early as Christmas, and Samsung dropped news about PCs and cameras early in the New Year.

Radiology in 2013: The Year of Imaging Software - DiagnosticImaging
By Whitney L.J. Howell 

The industry has turned its focus to what can be done in the next year to make practice more efficient and improve how its providers interact with other specialties. One of the biggest strategies for accomplishing this goal will be the implementation and use of new software offerings, experts say. The increasing use of more complex information in radiology practice has necessitated intelligent systems to more effectively capture and analyze data. Whether the new products impact workflow or patient care, new software developments will play an integral role in how you obtain, analyze, and share images in the future.

Gartner: The black cloud over IT will lift in 2013 - Venture Beat
By Christina Farr

For startups developing software for businesses rather than consumers, pitching products to IT divisions can be a predicament: It’s often unclear who makes the final decision on purchases, and IT budgets have become notoriously tight. A new wave of companies — like GoodData, founded in 2007 — have boldly entered the market with plans to bypass IT entirely and sell their products to marketing and business users. Research firm Gartner is partially responsible for its shift in attitude with its frequently-cited projection that by 2017, chief marketing officers will spend more on IT than chief information officers. Startups selling software to businesses fear that they can no longer count on IT managers as customers.

Read more to see what else caught our eye this week.

The 98th Scientific Assembly and annual Meeting of RSNA concluded on November 30 in Chicago. We were pretty excited to once again exhibit at RSNA.  This year we heard an overwhelming buzz from the conference attendees who were looking for products that are HTML5, zero-footprint and cloud-based, such as Prizm Content Connect. Additionally, attendees were also looking for ancillary support for quickly compressing images.

“We had great conversations with attendees that were using open source compression and decompression, but they needed the support we could provide them,” said Steve Wilson, Director of Native Core Imaging at Accusoft. “PICTools solved the majority of the major requests. Customers who have been using open source now want more speed and support,” said Bob Howard, Sales Engineer at Accusoft.

“Another great reason I loving coming to RSNA is that I get to have conversations in-person with our customers, and better understand their problems and trying to solve them,” said Wilson.

Read more to learn how RSNA plans to move beyond complacenty about IT.

Here at Accusoft we are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet.  In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few of our finds to share with you.  Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

3 Imaging Issues for Hospital Executives to Address - Becker's Hospital Review
By Kathleen Roney

Joe Marion, principal of Healthcare Integration Strategies, discusses three imaging implications that hospital executives should not forget when addressing health information management. With so many initiatives to pursue — meaningful use attestation, telehealth and telemedicine, health IT infrastructure and data governance just to name a few — hospital executives can easily lose sight of some key health IT issues that need attention.

The FBI Finally Abandons Paper, Goes All-Digital - Mashable
By Alex Fitzpatrick

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's agents have finally made the leap into the future, upgrading from paper files to a digital case management system at a cost of more than $600 million. Sentinel, the agency’s all-digital system, features a web browser-style user interface that allows agents to enter and review information about cases or suspects. Agents can do quick searches to see if one of their cases has any similarities to other cases, an improvement which should speed up investigations.

Read more to see what else caught our eye, and to share what you've found this week!