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Health Image Exchange: How Much Does Repeated Imaging Cost Your Hospital?
If you’ve been putting off involvement in a health image exchange (HIE), consider a recent study that shows how using an HIE can drastically cut back on the number of imaging tests that have be redone. Obviously, imaging tests are expensive. Unfortunately, due to...
What Archiving Structured Data Looks Like for a Wired Hospital
Most healthcare providers can say their facilities are “wired,” but not everyone can say they are taking advantage of what being wired truly means. For instance, harnessing data, reviewing it, taking steps to reduce errors and maximizing efficiency is something truly...
Report Says Integrated Image Transmission Could Improve Image Orders for Hospital Patients
The Journal of the American College of Radiology released a report recently that sheds some light on an issue that many radiology professionals are facing today regarding image transmission, clinical decision support and computerized physician order entry systems....
What’s The Big Deal About Deconstructing PACS and VNA?
It wasn’t too long ago that radiology professionals relied on light boxes, film, rolloscopes and other items (that we now view as archaic) to get them through the typical workday. As digital technology became more widely available, vendors began creating solutions...
Hood Memorial Hospital Launches Offsite Virtual CD Solution to Increase Efficiency, Improve Physician Collaboration, and Drive Patient Satisfaction
By launching a Virtual CD solution for sharing patient data with physicians and other area hospitals and clinics, Hood Memorial Hospital is setting an example for rural hospitals faced with Meaningful Use and compliance challenges. Instead of compatibility problems...
Enterprise Archiving Starts With a Strategy: What’s Yours?
Some healthcare providers aren’t putting a focus on their IT investment and it shows in the way their medical records, including images and HL7 data, are archived and shared. Radiologists and physicians working in these systems or with them know the difficulties...
Top Challenges for Radiology With Archiving Structured Data
There is no doubt that a majority of healthcare providers have gone filmless in their imaging informatics. In fact, the most obvious change in radiology has been the transition to remote digital communication, which has been made possible by PACS and electronic...
A Brief History of PACS (a.k.a. Solving Vendor-Controlled Imaging Problems)
Most radiologists would probably have no problem agreeing that the main issue PACS was built for was to tackle archiving. These same radiologists would probably agree that they are asking their PACS to do more than just archive today. With Meaningful Use requirements...
VNA Based PACS: At the Heart of Enterprise Imaging?
There has been a lot of talk lately about “deconstructing” PACS. What is driving this conversation is the fact that healthcare organizations are taking a different approach to the typical departmental view of medical images. Instead of seeing these images as being...