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How a Vendor Neutral Archiving System Delivers Control Back to the Hospital
Are You Attached to a Vendor Neutral Archiving System? IT vendors specializing in picture archiving communication systems have for years been in control of how the medical community manages medical, diagnostic images. Thanks to the advent of the vendor neutral...
Diagnostic Errors are Very Expensive: Cloud PACS Can Streamline Diagnosis
Cloud PACS are Answering the Call for Better Diagnoses Itโs an unfortunate circumstance when a misdiagnosis works against the health of a patient. Avoidable illnesses are often treated incorrectly in the U.S. because of diagnostic errors, and it can result in death....
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 arenโt as...
Rochester Medical Center Ditches Traditional CD Image Problems (What You Can Learn)
How CD Technology is Taking a Back Seat to Offsite Solutions The healthcare community might have been slow, and perhaps appropriately, to taking to the cloud for imaging solutions, but the migration to offsite solutions has certainly begun. A great example of why this...
Most Patients Want Access to Their Medical Images
A new survey finds that patients are eager to use web portals to download and share medical images and radiology reports with their physicians โ a tool that could be valuable not just to patients, but for radiologists as well. Web portals, or patient portals, are also...
Special report: Planning for the unlikely
In the last year or so, it seems the nationโs hospitals were besiegedย by a variety of high-profile disasters, including Hurricanes Irene and Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing. These events get at the primary challenge of emergency preparedness: trying to...
What Happens When Hospital Data Gets Hacked?
Most healthcare facilities expend a great amount of resources toward compliance to safeguard patient information, which when compromised can lead to information getting in the wrong hands and hefty fines being handed down. Many compliance issues are violated when...
OffSite Image Management Delivers Solutions That Improve Diagnostic Image Workflow and Storage Limitations at Greenwood County Hospital
In an effort to stay on pace with diagnostic imaging technology that maximizes patient care, Greenwood County Hospital of Eureka, Kan., recently decided to replace its picture archiving and communication system (PACS). The radiology team turned to Midwestern-based...
Why VNA Matters so Much to Critical Access Hospitals
What VNA Does for Medical Imaging Vendor neutral archiving: itโs a part of conversation for just about every IT professional in healthcare. VNA, as itโs more widely known, has emerged among cloud computing as a go-to solution for improving the way providers handle...