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PACS and VNA to Reach $335 Million by 2018: What’s Fueling Growth?
Let PACS and VNA Combine to Give You Better Outcomes The value that PACS has had throughout the medical community is great. The advent of this technology 20 years ago helped phase out the decades-long process that involved expensive and inefficient film processes....
Deconstructed PACS: State of the Art Solutions and More Control
How Deconstructed PACS is Changing the Landscape It seems like yesterday that light boxes, film and rolloscopes were the norm in radiology. However, the future, even back then, was increasingly pointing toward a digital process. Quickly, film took a back seat to new...
Five Reasons to Believe PACS Could be Evolving for Radiology
PACS and VNA Helping to Change the Imaging Landscape The technological landscape surrounding the healthcare industry has continually evolved. However, will this evolution change PACS as we know it? Industry experts are predicting just that. Some experts are saying...
Were the Predictions About Hosted Cloud PACS Correct?
The Advantages of Hosted Cloud PACS Healthcare providers today are doing everything they can to control costs while improving their level of care. For radiologists and IT departments, these two objectives can prove difficult to exact simultaneously. However, hosted...
Benefits of DICOM Image Exchange: Across All Fields
The Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standard has a history dating back to the early 1980s. If you weren’t a manufacturer of computed tomography or a specialist in magnetic resonance imaging, you probably couldn’t decode images until the DICOM...
Three Ways Tools Like Vendor Neutral Archiving are Changing Workflows at Hospitals … Large and Small
Vendor Neutral Archiving Leading the Way to Better Image Management The amount of data being generated by the healthcare community is not decreasing. In fact, there is a need to find larger, more reliable spaces to store healthcare data, including medical images,...
Deconstructing PACS: Three Ways Breaking Down the Walls Affects Your Operations
Deconstructing PACS With Effective VNA In the healthcare industry today, deconstructing PACS has become a hot topic. However, does everyone have the same definition of what deconstructing PACS means? Let’s take a look at what some industry experts perceive as a...
Surprise: Hospital Data Loss Underserved, Few Have HIE
Don’t Get Caught up in Hospital Data Loss A study from Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation reveals that only 30 percent of hospitals in the U.S. are part of a health information exchange (HIE). While there has been a slight increase in the...
HL7 and Interoperability: What Really Defines Interoperability?
HL7 Interoperability is Critical for Success What should an open electronic health record look like? It’s something that more and more radiology IT professionals are considering today, particularly where HL7 is concerned. A lot of emphasis is being put on...