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DICOM Data Migration Doesn’t Have to Be Painful. So Why Do Some PACS Vendors Make It That Way?
Your images. Your patients. Your data. Why should leaving a PACS vendor become a financial and technical nightmare? Why Does a Simple Migration Request Create So…
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Enterprise Imaging: Everyone Talks About It. Few Truly Practice It.
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights The Industry Has Embraced the Term. But Has It Embraced the Concept? Enterprise Imaging has become one of…
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Enterprise Imaging Without an Enterprise Budget
Why rural hospitals and smaller healthcare organizations shouldn’t have to spend millions to achieve enterprise-wide imaging capabilities. Enterprise Imaging Shouldn’t Be Reserved for Large Health Systems…
Read moreWhen PACS Goes Down, Patient Care Doesn’t Stop: Building Imaging Business Continuity
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights For most hospitals, PACS is no longer simply a radiology application. It is part of the clinical infrastructure…
Read moreDeconstructing PACS: Why One System Doesn’t Have to Mean One Point of Failure
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights When most people think about PACS, they think about a single system. Images enter the PACS. The PACS…
Read moreYour PACS Should Store More Than Radiology: One Patient, One Imaging Record
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights For decades, PACS has been closely associated with radiology. X-rays. CT scans. MRIs. Ultrasound. Mammography. Nuclear medicine. That…
Read moreSmall Hospital, Enterprise Imaging: Why Rural Healthcare Needs a Different Technology Strategy
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights A 25-bed critical access hospital and a 500-bed medical center may operate on dramatically different scales. Their patients,…
Read moreTeleradiology Should Connect Hospitals and Radiologists – Not Add More Complexity
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights For generations, the relationship between a community hospital and its radiologist was relatively straightforward. The radiologist often lived…
Read moreYour PACS Shouldn’t Require a Support Ticket to Fix Every Mistake
OffSite Image Management, Inc. | Healthcare Imaging Insights Technology should make healthcare professionals more capable – not more dependent. Yet in many imaging environments, a surprisingly…
Read moreImprove Your RIS With the Right Solution
Despite the importance of the radiology information system (RIS), many healthcare providers aren’t putting enough leadership behind the management of their RIS. By utilizing best practices…
Read moreRecent Study Shows the Advantages of Using DBT
A recent study continues to show promise in the pairing of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The study shows that patients undergoing breast-conserving…
Read moreRadiology Workflow Improvements You Can Make Today
Healthcare professionals are tasked with caring for their patients, but they are also using various forms of communication and imaging technology to send and receive information…
Read moreExpanding Your PACS Capabilities
PACS, when first being developed, might have been assigned the task of simply storing images, but as the landscape evolves, technologies are expected to do more…
Read moreVNA Continues to Be a Valuable Solution for Radiology
Vendor neutral archiving (VNA) technology has gone beyond a trending imaging fad and has earned a reputation as a go-to solution for ease of access to…
Read moreMedical Imaging Challenges for Rural Areas
For all the pleasures rural residents enjoy away from the hustle and bustle of city life, there are some disadvantages related to healthcare, particularly for women.…
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