Medical Imaging for Easing Stress of Caregivers
Medical imaging technology has improved, which means access to images is easier than ever.
Deconstructed PACS and the Cloud: Does Your Image Management Strategy Fit In?
Cloud Solutions Improve Image Management A number of issues come up for healthcare providers looking to find more efficiencies in their medical imaging solutions. They have redundant imaging problems that create cost disadvantages and expose patients to various risks. A way to become more efficient is to make the flow of images across the enterprise […]
Medical Diagnostic Imaging by Remote: The Surprising Opinions of Radiologists
Medical Diagnostic Imaging Through Cloud Services Could Boost Performance A recent report published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology says that while virtual consultations (VC) are a hit as far as patient care is concerned, radiologists aren’t as satisfied with them. Medical diagnostic imaging has increasingly gone digital, and the report says […]
Is Health Image Exchange a Top Challenge for 2015?
The ongoing efforts for healthcare providers to cut costs while striving to improve their level of care to patients will not decrease in 2015. So, for a healthcare provider to attempt to control costs on their end, it’s not just about profits – it’s also about extending those savings to the patient. The health image […]
Nearly 50 Percent of Hospitals Still Losing Money on Pagers: HIE360 Data Exchange is the Solution
The Solution to Reducing HIE Challenges The first telephone pager was patented in 1949, but it didn’t come into prominence in the classic pager form until the 1990s. Of course, the mobile phone made pagers obsolete, except for in the healthcare industry where they are still in use. Given that healthcare related technology has improved […]
Image Management Struggles: What do Critical Access Hospitals Face?
Image Management for Rural Facilities There are approximately 62 million people living in rural parts of America. These are people who rely on critical access hospitals for their healthcare needs. Unfortunately, these are facilities that often struggle with resources, including financial. When it comes to medical image management solutions, offsite data storage technology is stepping […]
Can Young Radiologists Help Lead Innovation in Health Image Exchange?
How the Health Image Exchange Can Improve Productivity Young people in a variety of professions are seeing challenges as they enter the workforce, but it’s especially true for young radiologists who are increasingly tasked with productivity-based metrics in the value-based care model. However, as the philosophical, back-and-forth abstract discussions about value-based care abound, health image […]
Health Image Exchange and VNA: What is it, Really?
How VNA Can Improve the Health Image Exchange Healthcare providers need an easier way to share, archive and access medical imaging. Vendor-specific PACS are causing roadblocks as providers demand more of their imaging systems. The move to health image exchange solutions that rely on vendor neutral archiving (VNA) technology looks increasingly to be the answer […]
Health Image Exchange: How Much Does Repeated Imaging Cost Your Hospital?
If you’ve been putting off involvement in a health image exchange (HIE), consider a recent study that shows how using an HIE can drastically cut back on the number of imaging tests that have be redone. Obviously, imaging tests are expensive. Unfortunately, due to constraints in how images are shared, patients often are burdened with […]
Health Image Exchange: How Should Ideal DICOM Exchange Work?
DICOM, the digital imaging and communications in medicine standard, has done its part in unifying many workflow issues within organizations. For one, it has linked radiology modalities and PACS systems. However, has DICOM done enough to assist healthcare providers? Some would argue that it hasn’t. Take this real-life example: a patient goes in for a […]