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How Virtual CD Works
Healthcare communities across the U.S. and throughout the world are now counting on DICOM exchange to offer a smooth transferal of medical images and data. Today, quality services can be in the cloud and for a lower cost. Letโs look at the Missouri Health Image...
Rural Hospital Data Loss is Only One Challenge: NRHA Asks For Extension
Members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in September asking for a one-year extension for healthcare providers to meet provisions set forth in Stage 2 of the Electronic Health Records Meaningful...
Cloud Backup Services: Does Your Hospital Grab Hold of the Benefits?
Cloud Backup Services Can Help You Streamline Your Processes There really can be no denying that cloud computing is a benefit to the healthcare community. Today, cloud backup services play a vital role in the overall performance of healthcare IT applications,...
Offsite Radiology and Informatics: Where We’ll be in Five Years
The number of patients seeking out radiology services rises everyday. The technology to serve these patients is also changing, as is the workflow. What needs to happen to make sure this influx of patients is getting the quality care they need? Healthcare facilities...
DICOM Exchange and Confidentiality
Digital imaging and communications in medicine, also known as DICOM, is the application layer network protocol for storing, sharing and printing medical imaging and information. The confidentiality of a DICOM exchange is of great importance to medical practitioners...
Can Data (Like a Virtual CD) Help Repair Healthcare
The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare, the title of a Webinar through the Harvard Business Review, brought up interesting points on the future of healthcare, including those regarding electronic health records (EHR). All healthcare providers are moving to EHRs to stay...
Why Was Vendor Neutral Archiving Avoided in The Past?
Vendor neutral archiving (VNA) is more than just a trend โ it is bringing great value to healthcare facilities across the nation. However, this wasnโt always the case. When hospital and radiology administrators began bringing picture archiving and communication...
Whatโs New With PACS Certification?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) might not sound like a bill that would impact electronic medical health records, but it certainly did. Signed into law in 2009, the ARRA created incentives for hospital to adopt technology suited for electronic medical...
Why Should We Use Image Management?
Hospitals everywhere are experiencing a need for better systems to organize and store their medical images. There are also many healthcare facilities that worry about the security of their images and data that resides in the cloud. An estimated 90-plus percent of...