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How to Choose an Offsite Data Center and Prevent Data Loss
Data loss can paralyze your hospital or clinic. Whether it's from a hardware failure or a natural disaster, data loss means patient images that could reveal critical healthcare answers can’t be found, or shared. Data loss for a hospital could mean serious time lapses...
Why Healthcare Providers Have to Develop an Image Management Strategy, Now
Enterprise imaging plans are in the neophyte stages at the moment, but vendor neutral solutions is the phrase most repeated. Strategies are being formed in this important endeavor that are focused on providing a solution for the health care industry’s image storage...
Why Offsite Archiving is Serious Business – Impacting Costs, Patient Health and More
The vendor neutral message is being heard, and big technology companies are taking note. Many of the healthcare providers are working toward more efficient strategies in archiving and retrieving images and data, and have chosen vendor-neutral solutions in their...
Do Electronic Personal Health Records Improve Outcomes?
Not only are patients seeking out better treatments and lifestyles that promote health, they’re actively keeping records of their health. Their expectations are higher than ever when it comes to health information management and sharing, and hospitals and clinics that...
Cloud PACS: Why It’s the Pivotal Point for Improving Diagnostic Results
More radiology professionals and administrators are using PACS for digital imaging than ever before, especially in the cloud. In fact, the entire electronic picture archiving and communication systems industry (PACS) is undergoing a change toward cloud PACS. The...
The Cloud And Your BC/DR Plan
Just 23% of the 414 respondents to our latest BC/DR survey use cloud services as part of their application and data resiliency strategies. What's the holdup? Business continuity and disaster recovery need to be a core competency, on par with security. But our trending...
Atchison Hospital Slashes Imaging Disaster Recovery Spending by 50%
(Kansas City, MO – originally published November 28, 2011) Atchison Hospital in Atchison, KS, a state-of-the-art, 25-bed hospital with a pioneering clinical automation system has selected Offsite Image Management Inc to provide disaster recovery and off-site archiving...
OffSite Helps Missouri Health Clinic Into Digital X-Ray Age
(Kansas City, Mo., originally published November 17, 2011) – Northwest Health Services has acquired digital imaging, sharing and data security capabilities at its new facility in Mound City, MO, making it the first of the company’s clinics in northwest Missouri to...
Secretary Sebelius Announces Final Rules To Support ‘Meaningful Use’ of Electronic Health Records
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, originally published Tuesday, July 13, 2010 WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced final rules to help improve Americans’ health, increase safety and reduce health care...