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Do You Have a Plan for Offsite Radiology Backup, Should Disaster Strike?
Offsite Radiology Backup – Be Prepared for Anything When a healthcare professional needs access to medical imaging, it better be there. In fact, 81 percent of those surveyed in an Infosys study last year said they were using or planning to use a mission-critical app...
Can Young Radiologists Help Lead Innovation in Health Image Exchange?
How the Health Image Exchange Can Improve Productivity Young people in a variety of professions are seeing challenges as they enter the workforce, but it’s especially true for young radiologists who are increasingly tasked with productivity-based metrics in the...
PACS Problems: Physicians Say Medical Images Must be Both “Fast and Filtered” to Save Lives
How PACS Improvements can Work for You Gaining a fast yet accurate diagnosis for the patient is critical in delivering the highest possible level of patient care. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always occur as it should, and sometimes, it’s because a medical image wasn’t...
Do You Really Know Remote Image Access Systems? Review the Differences
Remote Image Access Improves With an Offsite Solution Medical imaging plays a major role in the overall level of patient care providers are able to offer. There are a great many advantages that can be offered through the technology surrounding medical imaging – the...
Hospital Downtime and Business Continuity: Why PACS has Totally Changed “Business as Usual”
Business Continuity Improves With Offsite Services An old saying says, “to err is human, but to really mess things up takes a computer.” For radiology departments linked to the wrong systems, and sometimes even the right systems that are mismanaged, this saying has...
Three Reasons PVNA is Capturing the Attention of More IT Pros Now Than Ever
PVNA: The Direction of the Future Vendor neutral archiving (VNA) has been around for a while now, long enough for most radiologists and IT personnel to know that VNA is a vital component in unifying diagnostic imaging workflows. Joining the picture archiving...
Physicians Want to Spend More Time with Patients (And HL7 is Part of This)
HL7 is Important in Today’s EHR Arena Guess who’s driving innovation in the healthcare industry today? If you think it’s the hardware providers, software providers, geneticists or pharmacists, you’re making good guesses, but you’re wrong. Physicians are driving...
Why DICOM is Important to the NFL
DICOM: The Most Reliable Way to Share Images Forbes estimates that the National Football League (NFL) generates revenues of approximately $10 billion per year. This is money that fans spend on teams that have sought out, trained and pumped up some of the best athletes...
Three Reasons Not to Purchase Your Own Vendor Neutral Archive (Buy it From a Service Instead)
Vendor Neutral Archiving – the Key to Success The benefits of vendor neutral archiving (VNA) solutions are widely known today. However, the vendor neutral arena is currently being viewed in both on-premise and cloud-based perspectives. More and more healthcare...