Thursday, June 3
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Meeting Room 200

Join in the discussion as Industry leaders take this opportunity to discuss data management challenges. This session will include a panel discussion, with educators and vendors, as they take the didactic education topics of data management and open it to a discussion on the role of the vendors in assisting PACS administrators accomplish proactive systems management.

Key issues in data management will be discussed and participating PACS, enterprise storage and migration vendors will give their perspective on the issues and questions listed below:

1. How will HITECH security changes impact remote service and off-site archive/DR storage?
2. What do you do with the data in the old system when you move from PACSn to PACSn+1?
3. Do you migrate or do you forget?
4. How are vendors helping PACS administrators be more proactive in the managing a modern PACS system?
5. What are the practical approaches to manage import and export of medical images in a practice?

Paul G. Nagy, PhD; University of Maryland School of Medicine
Fred W. Prior, PhD; Washington University School of Medicine

Vendors:

Jan Carter, MS; McKesson Provider Technologies
Diana L. Nole, President; Carestream Health
Shannon Werb, COO, CTO; Acuo Technologies

Objectives:

1. Discuss how vendors provide services and tools to PACS customers to help them manage their systems better via a panel discussion with industry vendors.
2. Analyze what customers can do to ease the cost and pain of migration when changing vendors.