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Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada, first considered a cloud-based platform when its 12-year-old PACS was on its last legs. Facing a significant capital expenditure to replace it with another traditional PACS, the team at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center wondered whether it would be possible to achieve similar or better clinical efficiency with a pay-as-you-go solution.

Dan Ferguson, MD, CMO, says, "We had been having a lot of technical issues with our PACS and needed expensive service contracts just to keep it running. Quite frankly, we needed another approach."

Eagle Imaging Partners, an 11-radiologist practice based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, found itself considering a cloud-based PACS out of necessity. The group was covering 12 facilities across a large geographic area.

On February 10, 2011, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) launched its Social Media Health Network, a group aimed at leveraging social media to improve health care. Charter members of the network include Mayo Clinic; Bon Secours Health System (Marriottsville, Maryland); Inova Health System (Falls Church, Virginia); Mission Health System (Asheville, North Carolina); Swedish Health Services (Seattle, Washington); and Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

On February 21, 2011, in Orlando, Florida, Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, presented “Bringing the Social Media Revolution to Healthcare” at the annual meeting of the Health Information and Management Systems Society. He shares the Social Media Health Network’s experience with entering the social-media space, as well as its ambitions for the new group.

In February, the FDA issued a first-of-its-kind clearance for a mobile app for medical imaging, granting radiologists the regulatory go-ahead to interpret CR, MRI, and nuclear-imaging studies remotely on iPhones and iPads if a diagnostic monitor is unavailable. The approval signifies that the growing trend of mobile medicine has finally reached the radiology department; though the FDA stressed that tablets and smartphones were not to be used as replacements for traditional imaging workstations, “The approval validates that this type of technology is viable for imaging,” according to Chris Massoll, director of product management for Virtual Radiologic (vRad), Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In fact, the signs that medicine is evolving to become more mobile have been increasing in recent years. Research indicates that medical residents are increasingly reliant on mobile apps; one website, iMedicalApps.com, features reviews and rankings of the many health-care–related apps available for the iPhone and Android platforms.

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