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Cloud PACS: Happier Patients, Happier Doctors?
Gaining Efficiencies With Cloud PACS The field of radiology is constantly evolving. For example, CD burning technology helped to phase out the old method of sharing images, which was primarily through film studies that were mailed from one facility to another or...
How the Best PACS System Grows With the Hospital
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) were developed to provide better access to medical imaging with fewer hassles than what is experienced with film or CDs. Unfortunately, obsolescence is something that just about any medical facilityโs IT department...
Cloud Backup Services Can be the Answer to Hospital Data “Finger-Pointing”
Cloud Backup Services Can Help Protect You From Data Breaches The finger pointing is as ceaseless as theย increasingly damaging attacks from hackers, yet healthcare providers are finding cloud backup services to be a quality preventative resource to keep data protected...
Healthcare Enterprise Struggle: Where Will All the Data Go?
There is a lot of talk about โbig data,โ and for good reason; when you can drill down into your data, you can often find solutions. But the massive amounts of data organizations are creating is beginning to pile up. This is just as true in healthcare as it is in any...
Rural Hospitals and IT Challenges: Causes and Solutions
Rural hospitals and IT problems:ย itโs not a new problem. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) addressed a strategy for enhancements to the way care is delivered across the health information exchange, with particular implications for rural...
Hospital Data Loss Affects the Majority of Hospitals
According to a recent Ponemon Institute survey, healthcare facilities have struggled to keep patient data secure. Almost 95 percent of healthcare organizations said they have leaked data within the last two years. Most of these leaks are due to staff negligence, but...
Radiology Information System Cuts Back on Costly Image Problems in the E.R
Health information exchange (HIE) has offered some healthcare providers an opportunity to experience growing pains, but a recent study found that HIEs are responsible for reducing the amount of redundancy in emergency rooms. The University of Michiganโs Mathematica...
Enterprise Imaging Deconstructed: No Surprise for Medical Imaging Solutions
Medical Imaging Solutions That Strike a Perfect Balance Remember when everyone was so skeptical about the cloud? It really wasnโt that long ago, but now fewer than 20 percent of healthcare organizations are operating without a cloud-based solution. However, as...
DICOM Exchange and Image Quality: The Basics
Where would the healthcare community be in this digital age without the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard? As the top choice for exchanging medical imaging and related information, the DICOM exchange has provided countless healthcare...