If you're a PACS administrator, there's a good chance you may be gearing up for next month's Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) test. The exam is part of a new PACS administrator certification process being implemented by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII), a collaboration between the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).
The CIIP program offers PACS administrators the opportunity to achieve professional recognition of their training, education, and achievements. It's a great idea that should lead to increased professionalism among PACS administrators (and possibly higher salaries for those who achieve CIIP certification). But if you're taking the CIIP test on September 28, you may be stumped on how to prepare for it.
Worry no more. AuntMinnie.com is pleased to announce the launch of the Online College of PACS Administration, a three-part course of online presentations designed to get you ready for the CIIP exam.
We've divided the college into three courses, with each class roughly mirroring content due to be on the CIIP test. Our guest lecturer for the courses is noted PACS educator Herman Oosterwijk, principal of PACS education and consulting firm OTech of Aubrey, TX.
Course 101 is entitled "Importing/exporting radiology studies," and in the presentation Mr. Oosterwijk touches on the issue of getting medical images from outside your radiology facility into and out of your PACS network. It's an important topic, especially given the proliferation of external media and output options. You can check out the course -- no tuition required -- by clicking here.
When you're done, be sure to mark your calendars for Course 102, "Networking and network management," on August 31, and Course 103, "Enterprise image management," on September 14.
![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
