Your Vendor Neutral Viewer Should Give You Total Availability (No Excuses)
A Vendor Neutral Viewer Helps You Achieve a More Mobile Workforce Downtime. It’s a discouraging word for more than just IT professionals in the healthcare industry. However, with the digital age comes high-tech problems that result in data being unavailable, even if it’s for a brief time. Medical images, now almost exclusively digital, are also […]
Three Key Benefits of a Vendor Neutral Archive: Preparedness, Flexibility, Nimbleness
A Vendor Neutral Archive Solution Can Prepare You for the Future It’s not enough to just store your medical data, including images, in a safe environment anymore. It must now be stored digitally in an expandable and accessible format so that clinicians can gain access to them on the go. It is also no longer […]
How VNA Powers up IT Healthcare Management at Critical Access Hospitals
For those living in densely populated areas, you might be surprised to learn that there are more than 2,000 rural hospitals serving roughly one-fifth of America’s population living in remote areas. They are called critical access hospitals, and while they might not have the resources of the larger hospitals in urban centers, they provide a […]
Specific Ways HIPAA Impacts Radiology Information Systems
Staying on top of HIPAA regulations is a responsibility not to be taken lightly. Healthcare facilities got a new rule handed down earlier this year. Radiologists were affected by this new rule as there are an impactful number of changes involved. The newest rule has earned a title – “mega rule” because of the sheer […]
Business Continuity Planning: Sheer Volume Can Hold Radiology Back
Business Continuity Planning Relies on Great Communication Radiologists know there is no relationship more important than that between the radiologist and their technologist. Quality patient care relies on an easy exchange of information from one to the other, and that should be assisted by technology. However, business continuity planning often hits stumbling blocks because of […]
Atchison Hospital in Rural Kansas Says Current Patient Data Archiving System “Reached Its Limits”
Like many rural hospitals, the team at Atchison Hospital, Kansas, knows there’s a lot to lose if problems with existing overburdened patient data systems aren’t solved – such as the loss of reimbursements from Meaningful Use standards, loss of patients or staff to other facilities, and serious impacts on patient care. Instead, they’re moving toward […]
Best Health Information Exchange: Where do You Fit in?
By now everyone involved with healthcare has heard about or been touched in some way by health information exchange (HIE). By the middle of 2013, about half of all physicians in the U.S. were actively using an electronic health records system. The question is, are they using the best health information exchange available? The best […]
Healthcare Enterprise and VNA: Starts with Strategy
Healthcare providers across the nation are looking at ways they can establish a better and more secure healthcare enterprise. The ones that are succeeding are doing it with vendor neutral archiving (VNA). To get started, you have to have a strategy. Your first thought should be on how you can get ready to migrate your […]
What You Need to Know About Archiving Structured Data (HL7)
The importance of sharing information in the healthcare industry is such that Health Level 7 (HL7), a conglomeration of healthcare professionals in 55 countries, has been created to help establish the standard format for exchanging data. Archiving structured data (HL7) is a priority. Archive refers to a long-term data storage subsystem, which is increasingly important […]
A Scary Story About Hospital Data Loss
If you are like anyone else associated with the healthcare industry, you shudder every time you see news about a hospital losing patient files. Hospital data loss is a very real problem that every healthcare facility faces. Are you doing everything you can to prevent these losses? Late last year, hospital data loss was reported […]