RadNews
October 2012

IN THIS ISSUE:
NationalRad PACS Updates
New QA Role for Caryn Nolen
Foot & Ankle Specialist
New from NationalRad

NationalRad Introduces New PACS System

We are excited to announce that we initiated implementation of a new PACS infrastructure here at NationalRad in late September. This is a project that we have been working on for quite some time, and we have seen tremendous improvements in our technology and workflow as a result. We are excited to finally be able to bring some of these benefits to our clients as well.

As part of our new PACS infrastructure, we will have an improved client web site for our referring facilities to access patient reports. Some improvements include more responsive queries, enhanced image viewing capability, email alerts and PDF download of reports. While the new web site is extremely intuitive, we have a quick start guide that includes some very basic instructions for the first time you visit the site, which you should have received from Elaine Bresnahan via email during the last week of September. If you did not receive Elaine's email, please contact her at ebresnahan@nationalrad.com.

Patient reports should now be available on our new system. You can click on the following link or enter our new URL in your browser to access the system: https://clients.nationalrad.com/portal. Usernames and password are the same as on the previous site.

Elaine will keep you up-to-date on our PACS upgrade. If you should have any questions or need any assistance, please contact her. We thank you for your patience during this transition period and look forward to hearing your feedback when you are up and running on the new PACS system.

Caryn Nolen Accepts New QA Role with NationalRad

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Caryn Nolen, our chief radiologic technologist, has accepted a new role with NationalRad. Going forward, Caryn will also serve as our director of quality assurance (QA). In her new role, Caryn will continue to assist our customers with protocol and image optimization and education, IAC and ACR magnet accreditation and compliance programs, streamlining of processes, and answering of technical questions.

Caryn joined NationalRad in 2008, and has been a tremendous asset to our customers and us since. We thank Caryn for her ongoing hard work and commitment, and ask you to please join us in congratulating Caryn.

Foot & Ankle Talk with NationalRad

NationalRad has several musculoskeletal radiologists that specialize in diagnostic imaging of the foot and ankle, including TIMOTHY G. SANDERS, MD and WILLIAM B. MORRISON, MD. Dr. Sanders and Dr. Morrison have researched, published, and lectured extensively on imaging and diagnosis of the foot and ankle and are here to be a resource for you and your foot and ankle patients. Call us to reach one of our foot and ankle specialists about a particular patient or condition, and visit our FOOT & ANKLE RESOURCE page to learn more about our foot and ankle practice.

New from NationalRad: Announcements

TIMOTHY G. SANDERS, MD, NationalRad's Director of Education & Research, was just awarded a Highly Commended Prize for Radiology for his text PRESENTATION, IMAGING AND TREATMENT OF COMMON MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS by the British Medical Association (BMA). For more information about the awards and to see additional award winners, visit the 2012 BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS webpage. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sanders on his great achievement.

CAROL L. ANDREWS, MD, NationalRad musculoskeletal radiologist, was named Associate Editor for Musculoskeletal Radiology by the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGIC PATHOLOGY in August of 2012. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Andrews on her new appointment.

New from NationalRad: Upcoming Presentations & Lectures

SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, October 26, 2012, Stony Brook, NY

+ Visiting Professor - DONALD J. FLEMMING, MD

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