Image Management and Meaningful Use: What Rural Hospitals Must Know
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) has someimportant provisions that rural hospitals need to be aware of. The act establishes a funding base for healthcare facilities to establish health information technology efforts, including technology related to electronic health records. But the act also penalizes facilities that have failed to achieve […]
Doctors Say Why Electronic Health Records Matter
Healthcare professionals spend a lifetime upholding the oath they took early in their careers. The oath requires them to care for the sick to the best of their abilities and judgment. Technology, no doubt, has assisted them throughout the centuries in keeping this oath. The latest generation of doctors has electronic health records (EHR) to […]
Features to Look For in Best PACS System
Film processing is expensive and storing the sensitive images can be a compliance problem for medical imaging offices. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established not only to deal with cost and compliance issues, but to make sharing these images between healthcare professionals easier. The best PACS system can handle massive amounts of […]
Weighing in on Electronic Rural Hospital Data Storage
Limited budgets can limit the resources rural hospitals have in their data storage options. Some are finding that partnerships with larger hospitals in the region can ease the burden of storage needs, which seems to grow with each passing year. A recent study by Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence found that rural hospital data storage […]
CMS rule seeks to reduce CT and MR reimbursements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its 2014 rule for hospital outpatient services, and imaging stakeholders are not looking upon it favorably. For more information follow this link to the DOTmed article.
Why Correctly Routing Images in Radiology is So Important
Few in the medical community would argue that radiology and biomedical imaging is one of the most important factors in determining why patients are sick and how they can be properly treated. Most of those images must be correctly routed to the medical facilities where medical professionals can view them, so properly routing images is […]
VNA and Hospital Workflow Challenges: What to Know, Now
Rarely does a medical facility rely on one office, solely, to provide all the services that a patient requiresto receive the best care. Communication between departments is key to offering the best treatment possible. But when the workflow is disrupted by technology, the level of service offered gets bogged down. Medical facilities with the best […]
Health Image Exchange, Rural Hospitals and Telemedicine: Missouri Steps Forward
Missouri has two major metropolitan communities that account for a large percent of its residents, but the agricultural state is largely rural. Rural communities across the nation continue to make strides to improve broadband access, as does Missouri. But along with that, the Show-Me-State is also improving its telemedicine care. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced […]
Rural Hospital Data: Do Smaller Hospitals Fall Behind?
Cancer, heart disease and other ailments that befall those that live in the city are no different than what those in rural communities face. But what health experts are trying to determine is why the number of life-threatening ailments hasn’t fallen in rural areas like it has in urban areas. One reason might be that […]
Hospital Data Loss Draws Tougher Scrutiny, Penalties
Every so often the medical community gets a reason to fear the loss of critical data concerning theirpatients’ personal medical information. Far greater than a lost laptop or stolen thumb drive, hospital data loss comes with some serious consequences when the system’s security has been compromised. When it comes to data security, lack of care […]