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Combat Hospital Data Loss With Accessibility, Archiving
Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is not something most healthcare providers find to be a simple task. However, violating HIPAA regulations means fines, something most smaller providers can’t afford to risk. There are rules...
Is Health Image Exchange a Top Challenge for 2015?
The ongoing efforts for healthcare providers to cut costs while striving to improve their level of care to patients will not decrease in 2015. So, for a healthcare provider to attempt to control costs on their end, it’s not just about profits – it’s also about...
How Virtual CD Works
Healthcare communities across the U.S. and throughout the world are now counting on DICOM exchange to offer a smooth transferal of medical images and data. Today, quality services can be in the cloud and for a lower cost. Let’s look at the Missouri Health Image...
Rural Hospital Data Loss is Only One Challenge: NRHA Asks For Extension
Members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in September asking for a one-year extension for healthcare providers to meet provisions set forth in Stage 2 of the Electronic Health Records Meaningful...
Cloud Backup Services: Does Your Hospital Grab Hold of the Benefits?
Cloud Backup Services Can Help You Streamline Your Processes There really can be no denying that cloud computing is a benefit to the healthcare community. Today, cloud backup services play a vital role in the overall performance of healthcare IT applications,...
Offsite Radiology and Informatics: Where We’ll be in Five Years
The number of patients seeking out radiology services rises everyday. The technology to serve these patients is also changing, as is the workflow. What needs to happen to make sure this influx of patients is getting the quality care they need? Healthcare facilities...
DICOM Exchange and Confidentiality
Digital imaging and communications in medicine, also known as DICOM, is the application layer network protocol for storing, sharing and printing medical imaging and information. The confidentiality of a DICOM exchange is of great importance to medical practitioners...
Can Data (Like a Virtual CD) Help Repair Healthcare
The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare, the title of a Webinar through the Harvard Business Review, brought up interesting points on the future of healthcare, including those regarding electronic health records (EHR). All healthcare providers are moving to EHRs to stay...
Why Was Vendor Neutral Archiving Avoided in The Past?
Vendor neutral archiving (VNA) is more than just a trend – it is bringing great value to healthcare facilities across the nation. However, this wasn’t always the case. When hospital and radiology administrators began bringing picture archiving and communication...