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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.

A few stories that caught our attention this week include how to test a barcode, a report from RSNA on how Meaningful Use has been slowly adopted and a story on companies replacing legacy apps with SaaS solutions.

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!

How Do You Test a Bar Code? - The Barcode News
By John Nahtrieb

It is necessary to test a bar code because when it doesn’t work right, it causes huge problems and potentially huge liability. Bar codes hold the retail supply chain together and make it possible to track the movement of food, consumer goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, health care products and devices; bar codes are integrated into manufacturing processes, security systems, access control devices, identification systems and myriad other applications.

RSNA: Rads exhorted to make MU meaningful - HealthImaging
By Lisa Fratt

The consensus on Meaningful Use (MU) for radiology is that the program is an awkward fit for the specialty. Consequently, radiologists have been slow to accept MU. An expert panel challenged radiologists to accept the challenge of MU and work to make it meaningful for radiology at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Gartner: SaaS Now Replacing Legacy Apps, as Well as Extending Them - CIO
By Chris Kanaracus

Companies are not only buying into SaaS (software as a service) more than ever, they are also ripping out legacy on-premises applications and replacing them with SaaS, according to analyst firm Gartner.

The Buzz
Are you missing this year’s RSNA? Or are you at the conference trying to keep up with the vast amounts of information? We are here and there is a lot to see and learn. Some of the buzzwords we hear floating around Hall A are: “HTML5,” “zero-footprint” and “mobile.” We’re getting a lot of questions such as ‘how can I view DICOM images on a mobile device?’

On Sunday at RSNA the Daily Bulletin reported that a panel of informatics experts urged radiology to embrace Meaningful Use now. Radiologists are being strongly encouraged to adopt EHR and will increasingly be working and communicating with referring physicians and hospitals using EHRs. “Just because you don’t choose to participate, doesn't mean Meaningful Use isn’t going to affect you,” said Keith Dreyer, D.O., Ph.D. 

Read more to learn more about Meaningful Use and HTML5 at RSNA.

For 97 years, members of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have met to discuss the newest and greatest advancements in radiological technologies.  From November 25-29th, nearly 60,000 representatives of member organizations will gather in Chicago for the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, including Accusoft employees!  They’ll be quite busy with five days of over 2000 educational exhibits, over 1000 scientific posters and over 600 technical exhibits.  Stop by booth #3601 to see how Accusoft is contributing to radiological imaging innovation!

Read more to find out which two Accusoft products are vying for the spotlight at this year’s meeting.

Here at Accusoft we are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long. 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!

QR Codes In the Classroom - BarCode News
By Carly Curran
Rather than fighting the use of technology in the classroom and at school, this article highlights a rising trend of integrating QR Codes (and thus the smartphones which read them) into typical school activities.

Georgia Tech's Musical Robots - TechCrunch
By John Biggs
Robots playing freestyle jazz?  Your initial reaction may be "No way!" but one researcher of artificial intelligence proves that it is possible, arguing that music may just be a "lucky confluence of math and harmonics."

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