SCAR 2003 Special Sessions

Special Sessions
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Lunch Sessions
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Resident Roundtable

Co-Chair:
John Speziale
Director, Radiology Information Technology
Children's Hospital Boston

Chair: 
David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis
Partners Healthcare System

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe different levels of clinical decision support, from simple to more complex.

• Describe the evidence that clinical decision support improves the efficiency, quality and safety of care.

Health care delivery systems are focusing on reducing medical errors and improving quality of care. Medical imaging will increasingly become a focus of these efforts due to rapid growth of imaging technologies and applications. Radiology has a unique opportunity to lead such efforts. We will discuss how leveraging information technology solutions can help transform radiology's perceived role of technology provider to that of a knowledge provider in patient care.

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize factors contributing to overuse/miss-use/under-use of imaging.

• Discuss medical errors in the context of medical imaging and their potential impact on health care costs and quality.

• Use a case example to describe how radiology can leverage information technology solutions, specifically Computerized Physician Order Entry, to help deliver knowledge at the point of care to reduce errors and improve quality of care while improving efficiency.

Moderator:

Paul G. Nagy, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe traits and prerequisites to be a PACS professional.

• Learn valuable job survival skills.

• Learn how to succeed as a PACS professional.

• Explore tools and tips on how to become a PACS expert.

Moderator:  
J. Anthony Seibert, PhD
University of California, Davis

Public domain software, including freeware, shareware and open source development opportunities is a resource that can provide significant assistance to implementers and users of PACS. This session will describe methods, strategies, and the discovery process of finding software and information from simple DICOM image viewers,  database management tools, PACS administrative and QC tools, DICOM libraries, PACS FAQs, to available RFP documents and open source code. Open source code development for use and contribution by the public sector provides a fertile ground for creative implementation and sharing of ideas. Demonstration of specific software programs during the session will illustrate many of these creative and state-of-the-art capabilities.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn about the public domain software available from the Web and other resources.

• Gain an understanding of how to access, download, and implement specific freeware and shareware routines and retrieve useful information and suggestions about PACS and informatics issues.

• Demonstrate the capabilities, advantages, and implications of open source software.

Moderator: 

Katherine P. Andriole, PhD
University of California at San Francisco
Chair, SCAR Research and Development Committee

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn the basic elements required to construct a solid scientific oral paper presentation.

• Become aware of common mistakes and potential pitfalls to avoid in giving scientific presentations.

• Recognize good and bad practices in scientific presentations to facilitate improving the creation and delivery of their own presentations in the future.

Moderator:  
David Piraino, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

IHE is an initiative of IT and healthcare professionals and industry to implement standards to solve real-world clinical problems. In radiology IHE has defined standards-based transactions to support the workflow of typical patient encounters and numerous other enhancements to the efficiency of clinical care. IHE makes it simpler for vendors to adopt these solutions and for purchasers to specify them when acquiring systems--reducing the difficulty and cost of tightly integrating systems. Learn what you need to know to put these benefits into practice today.

• Learn the benefits of a tightly integrated workflow in radiology

• Understand the constantly expanding scope of integration capabilities available through IHE

• Find out how to use IHE Integration Profiles and Vendor Integration Statements to specify integration capabilities when acquiring and implementing imaging and IT

• Draw on the experience of users who have successfully integrated imaging and information systems with IHE

Moderator: 

Katherine P. Andriole, PhD
University of California at San Francisco
Chair, SCAR Research and Development Committee

Steve G. Langer, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn the basics of statistical concepts, experimental design and informed display choices

Moderator: 

David S. Channin, MD
Northwestern University Medical School
Chair, SCAR Resident Education and Training Committee

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the electronic teaching tools available now.

• Understand what is missing from teaching tools.

• Understand technologies available to develop new tools.
  
  For more information on SCAR Resident Activities and Listserve, see
  the Resident Corner of the Winter 2003 issue of SCAR News.