BMC Radiology Imaging Library

Ashley Davidoff

Every moment of our work day, something interesting or important is happening.  We do not have an easy way to capitalize on these moments or on the experience of others in our department.

We recycle our trash – Why not our treasures?!

Important moments happen in clinical care, education, research and quality control.  We are creating two integrated projects that aim to solve this issue.  “In Line” is a tool we are developing with Philips Performance Bridge, engineered by Vamsee Reddy (MS4),  to collect and archive cases easily from the PACS system.  This tool will enable us to develop a personal teaching file (TF) as well as a departmental TF which will be housed in our new virtual BMC Radiology Imaging Library.  Each staff member and trainee in the department will also have a personal URL subdomain that will enable the accumulation of images, videos, PowerPoints and word files.

 The BMC Radiology Imaging Library project is the combination of a living room and library – a forum for our social and intellectual pursuits, enabling us to learn together as a unit.  For the social aspect we would like to promote outside interests of our members such as photography, art and music.  By creating profiles relating to the interests of members of our department and the rotating students, we will get to know each other better.  For the intellectual and clinical care aspect we will house a variety of categories within the library with cutting edge learning and teaching tools, such as “In a Nutshell”, “Voice Rad” and OLA resources.

Dr. Soto has just signed a discovery phase contract with Honeycomb Archive, a digital asset management company who will work on the pilot development of the BMC Image Library, with a view to creating mobile elements and online learning tools

Our vision is that the BMC Imaging Library will serve individual members while also contributing to the department in its entirety.  The next generation of our department will also derive benefits.  We hope to add another layer to the foundation of BMC Radiology by recycling our treasures and making them available to all.