Venue:  TBA Coordinator: Dr. Metab Alkubeyyer Faculty: TBA Recommended CE Course: CEC9 entitled "Health Informatics"

Target Audience:

Radiologist, IT managers,  physicists , PACS administrators.

Workshop Description:

This course offers highlights related to imaging and health informatics. The rapidly evolving image sharing technologies and standards will be reviewed.  The course is intended to be an explanatory review of issues related to PACS, image sharing and  workflow from the level of imaging department up to enterprise and national level.
The presentations will be given by noted experts from major national and international centers that have broad experience with image management and technology.

Lectures:

1. Clinical Image Sharing Technologies for Medical Imaging Enterprises
2. Status of Healthcare IT
3. "PACS implementation strategy"
4. 15 years of lessons learned from PACS and Clinical Image Distribution
5. E-learning management system in imaging department
6. Integrating Health Enterprise (IHE)
7. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Vs. Electronic Health Record (EHR)
8. Workflow Engines and Content Management Systems: The Next Step for Imaging Departments.
9. “status of DICOM standards for radiology, radiation oncology, and radiation protection, all of which are in active development”
10. Saudi E-Health Exchange and the Interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR)
11. Saudi National Digital Image Sharing and Tele-Radiology Platform.
12. Free open source radiology tools