Radiology should lead healthcare towards adopting integrated systems
HealthImaging.com, May 20, 2008
Centralized health information systems have long served key functions like billing and admissions well, but have fell short on departmental clinical functions. Radiology needs to continue leading the effort for distributed but integrated systems, said Ronald L. Arenson, MD, during the opening session presentation at the 2008 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Annual Meeting.
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