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Goodbye Silo for DICOM Storage: Can Multiple Disciplines Work Together?
DICOM Storage Vendors are Working Offsite In a perfect world, healthcare professionals working with medical images would be able to view MRIs, CT scans, standard digital photographs from dermatology, electrocardiograms, PDFs and any other visual element that assists...
Medical Imaging Question: Should Patients View Their Own Files?
Medical Imaging Portals and Offsite Storage a Good Match Meaningful Use requirements have prompted radiologists to make their examination reports available to patients in an electronic fashion within 24 hours of the exam. The question is – should patients be able to...
Can You Prevent Data Loss at Your Hospital While Hackers are Hard at Work?
Working With Offsite Vendors to Prevent Data Loss Frequent headlines give us examples of how hackers are always prepared to break through firewalls and work their way around computer systems, gaining access to sensitive information that should have been more securely...
VNA Meets More Hospital Data Needs Than You Might Think
Offsite VNA Solutions to the Rescue The average patient seeks out medical assistance from multiple practitioners today, which is why it’s so important for medical data, especially medical imaging, to be shared without barriers. More and more facilities are adopting...
What Can You do Better After a Hospital Data Breach?
Keeping Hospital Data Safe and Available There were 112 million records compromised at hospitals through the U.S. in 2015. Millions of patients’ data got into the wrong hands, and it’s something that providers are looking to prevent from happening in 2016. How can you...
Even One Small “Event” Means Facing a Business Continuity Planning Failure for Patients, Staff
Business Continuity Planning Improves With Offsite Services When any healthcare provider is without access to patient data because of an unplanned event, the importance of business continuity planning quickly becomes apparent, and should promote action. Interruptions...
3 New Views on PACS
Getting More Out of Your PACS Radiology users face a number of challenges today that their outdated PACS can’t handle on its own. First and foremost, data sets are growing at a fast rate. Healthcare imaging specialists and radiologists were once only concerned with...
Offsite Data Storage Means Not Having to Apologize for 4.5 Million Records Breached
Go With an Offsite Data Storage Provider For Better Security Hackers can wreak havoc on email users to healthcare providers and everyone in between. Recently, criminals who gained access to the data on 4.5 million patients did so after hacking a hospital group with...
VNA Can Solve Disparate PACS Problems: A Story to Share
Advancing Workflow Issues With VNA PACS sprawl. Those are two words that radiology departments are familiar with. It’s something that starts out fairly innocently – the department gets a new PACS, they implement it and start using it regularly. Then, it becomes clear...