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DICOM Storage and Patients: It’s About Access to Their Own Images
The DICOM storage process is evolving. When health information exchanges were first coming into play in the healthcare industry, there was a lot of focus on setting the foundation right, establishing connectivity and coming up with standards that lead to...
Are These Key Elements of Disaster Recovery Part of Your Hospital Business Continuity Planning?
Business Continuity Planning Through Cloud-Based Solutions When it comes to technology, being prepared for evolving solutions is critical. In the healthcare industry, change is a constant, including with technology tied to medical imaging. This became highly apparent...
Newton Medical Center Launches Vendor Neutral Archiving through OffSite Image Management: Challenges with PACS and Mammography Storage Resolved; Workflow Improved
OffSite Image Management Partners With Newton Medical Center to Solve “Aging” PACS Problems With 3D Mammography Vendor Neutral Archiving Solutions Highlighted in Community Hospital Case Study View the OffSite Case Study pdf document here. March 1, 2016 (St. Joseph,...
Cloud PACS and Seamless EMR Data
There are many reasons why medical facilities are establishing electronic health records (EHRs and EMRs) and cloud PACS, none of which are probably more enticing than the federal government’s incentives in doing so. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which...
Keeping Hospital Data Secure and Safe
It’s imperative that patient information not be seen by unauthorized eyes. Hospitals have been fined millions of dollars for mismanaging information, either through a lost laptop or a stolen flash drive. There are risks around every corner, which is why healthcare...
Best Health Information Exchange: Should Patients Have Control?
What You Should Offer for the Best Health Information Exchange Services In the healthcare industry, many professionals are reluctant to change. Take small doctor’s office across America as an example; you see many of them still using large file folders containing the...
VNA Healthcare: How a Community Hospital Used VNA to Enhance Mammography and Workflow
VNA Healthcare Solutions in the Cloud While technological advancements have improved the way radiologists study images, there continues to be issues in how images are managed. Specifically, archiving, accessing and sharing medical images are at the forefront of most...
Protecting Electronic Health Records Can be Expensive But it Doesn’t Have to be Out of Reach
One has to look no further than how much the healthcare system is spending to protect themselves from data breaches to understand the magnitude of how important protecting against threats is becoming - $7 billion annually. Electronic health records (EHRs) have many...
Still Having These Problems With PACS and Workflow?
VNA and PACS Could be the Answer In today’s healthcare landscape one can’t address PACS problems without bringing up vendor neutral archiving, or VNA. In order to reduce storage and migration expenditures, VNA is a good solution. Furthermore, VNA has begun to occupy...