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PACS and Consistent Measurements: Saving Lives?
Software related to picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) are continually improving and offering different approaches that allow doctors and specialists to better serve their patients. According to a recent study published in the American Journal of...
What is the Process for Centralized Image Storage?
The PACS market has grown over the last 10 years as the various procedures and image formats have evolved. To keep up with the proliferation of data, many healthcare professionals are developing a centralized image storage process to help them share the images and...
Offsite Data Storage in the Cloud: What Hospitals Consider Before Moving
The amount of data contained in medical records can be staggering, especially when there are high-resolution radiological images involved. Rather than invest in servers to store the data on-site, healthcare facilities are taking to the cloud. A major Boston medical...
Lessons From Boulder: Patients Frustrated Over Data Loss
Technology has gone a long way in assisting healthcare professionals in providing quality care for their patients. But when the technology goes on the blink, the ability to provide care is severely hampered. A recent computer system outage at a community hospital in...
Image Management and Meaningful Use: What Rural Hospitals Must Know
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) has some important provisions that rural hospitals need to be aware of. The act establishes a funding base for healthcare facilities to establish health information technology efforts,...
Doctors Say Why Electronic Health Records Matter
Healthcare professionals spend a lifetime upholding the oath they took early in their careers. The oath requires them to care for the sick to the best of their abilities and judgment. Technology, no doubt, has assisted them throughout the centuries in keeping this...
Features to Look For in Best PACS System
Film processing is expensive and storing the sensitive images can be a compliance problem for medical imaging offices. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established not only to deal with cost and compliance issues, but to make sharing these...
Weighing in on Electronic Rural Hospital Data Storage
Limited budgets can limit the resources rural hospitals have in their data storage options. Some are finding that partnerships with larger hospitals in the region can ease the burden of storage needs, which seems to grow with each passing year. A recent study by...
CMS rule seeks to reduce CT and MR reimbursements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its 2014 rule for hospital outpatient services, and imaging stakeholders are not looking upon it favorably. For more information follow this link to the DOTmed article.