• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Behavioral Health
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Patient Engagement
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
    • Social Determinants of Health
  • Digital Health
    • AI
    • Blockchain
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Life Sciences
  • Investments
  • M&A
  • Value-based Care
    • Accountable Care (ACOs)
    • Medicare Advantage

RSNA Launches Image Share Validation Program

by HITC Staff 11/30/2015 Leave a Comment

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Print

the-sequoia-project-footer-logo

During RNSA15, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), in collaboration with The Sequoia Project, today introduced the Image Share Validation Program, a conformity assessment program that will set the standard for consistency in the marketplace. The Image Share Validation Program will encourage the adoption of image-sharing capabilities by imaging vendors and radiology sites, expanding access to medical images and reports whenever and wherever they are needed. The Validation Program builds on the success of the RSNA Image Share Network, a nationwide imaging information exchange providing patient-focused image sharing. 

Currently, a patient typically receives images on a CD and must carry them from provider to provider. Improved access to imaging records will enable better-informed decisions about patient care and lead to more efficient utilization of imaging systems and improved patient safety by eliminating redundant radiology procedures. It also engages better-informed patients in their health care.

Image Share Validation Program Overview

Starting with a pilot testing program in 2016, RSNA will conduct validation testing of commercial systems for image sharing capabilities based on IHE profiles with the support of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University, St Louis, and The Sequoia Project. Vendors who successfully pass the testing program will be awarded the right to use the RSNA Image Share Validation mark to convey to purchasers that their products have achieved compliance with the capabilities tested in the program.

The Image Share Validation Program will test the compliance of vendors’ systems using quality standards determined most effective for accurate and efficient exchange of medical images including those used in the RSNA Image Share Network.

The program is ideal for vendors of imaging systems such as Reporting Systems, RIS and PACS that wish to enable those systems to connect to networks for sharing images with providers and patients or vendors of health information exchange systems that wish to enhance their systems to exchange medical images and reports.

The Sequoia Project will also assist in administering the RSNA Image Share Validation program and in communications, outreach and promotion to its constituent members. The Sequoia Project provides a corporate home for multiple interoperability initiatives, including the eHealth Exchange, a health data sharing network representing 40 percent of all U.S. hospitals, federal agencies, dozens of health information exchanges (HIEs), thousands of clinics and 100 million patients.  

Pilot Program Details

For the initial pilot program, RSNA will offer validation of four bundles of functionality, based on Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles and actors:

– XDS-I Document Source and Consumer

– XDS-I Registry and Repository

– XCA-I Gateway

– Patient-focused Image Sharing through a PHR System

Test participants can choose to be tested for any combination of bundles. The Image Share Validation Program pilot project is partially funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The validation program is designed to be self-sustaining after its initial launch.

“Interoperability has been recognized as perhaps the biggest gap in what the health information technology domain has to offer patients,” said David S. Mendelson, M.D., FACR, vice chair of radiology IT at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, N.Y. “The RSNA Image Share Validation program in partnership with The Sequoia Project is sending a message. To promote the best interest and care of our patients, the world of imaging is ready to rapidly advance standards-based solutions for imaging interoperability. These are standards employed elsewhere in the world and present a solution that can evolve as new technologies arise.”

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Print

Tagged With: RNSA

Tap Native

Get in-depth healthcare technology analysis and commentary delivered straight to your email weekly

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to HIT Consultant

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly.

Submit a Tip or Pitch

Featured Insights

Digital Health Funding Q3 2025: Choppy Undercurrents Beneath a Steady Surface

Featured Interview

ConcertAI VP Shares View on AI Hallucinations and the Fabricated Data Crisis in Scientific Publishing

Most-Read

Qualtrics Acquires Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B to Create the Most Comprehensive AI Experience Platform

Qualtrics Acquires Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B to Create the Most Comprehensive AI Experience Platform

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

KLAS Report: Epic's Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

KLAS Report: Epic’s Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

Epic Unveils MyChart Central and New APIs to Advance Interoperability at Open@Epic

Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City

Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City

Philips Future Health Index 2025: AI and Digital Tech Can Help Solve Cardiac Care Crisis

Philips Future Health Index 2025: AI and Digital Tech Can Help Solve Cardiac Care Crisis

Optain Health Secures $26M to Advance AI-Powered Retinal Screening

Optain Health Secures $26M for AI-Powered Retinal Screening

Sutter Health and Epic Launch "Sutter Sync" to Optimize Remote Chronic Care

Sutter Health and Epic Launch “Sutter Sync” to Optimize Remote Chronic Care

Secondary Sidebar

Footer

Company

  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Reprints and Permissions
  • Submit An Op-Ed
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Editorial Coverage

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Digital Health
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain Tech
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Startups
  • Value-Based Care
    • Accountable Care
    • Medicare Advantage

Connect

Subscribe to HIT Consultant Media

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly

Copyright © 2025. HIT Consultant Media. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy |