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Health Image Exchange: How Should Ideal DICOM Exchange Work?
DICOM, the digital imaging and communications in medicine standard, has done its part in unifying many workflow issues within organizations. For one, it has linked radiology modalities and PACS systems. However, has DICOM done enough to assist healthcare providers?...
Deconstructing PACS and VNA: Why it’s Inevitable
Cloud technology is being used around the world. Updates to operating systems no longer require a CD – everything comes over the Internet or “through the cloud”. It wasn’t long ago that medical professionals feared the cloud, feared breaking compliance regulations and...
PACS and VNA: You Have to Choose Something
If you’re working on developing an enterprise imaging strategy, you’re not alone. Many providers are in the same boat, looking at PACS and VNA, attempting to figure out how they can get their images to the people who need to see them, safely, securely and without...
PACS Vendor Neutral Archive: One System, Many Solutions
Can there be any doubt that in order to break down the barriers to better image archiving practices, there needs to be a focus on PACS vendor neutral archive systems? Providers that have long been stymied by the vendor specific archiving systems are finally finding...
Vendor Neutral Archiving System Among Most-Noted Hospital Pressures
Ernst and Young released a report recently titled “Pulse of the Industry: Differentiating Differently,” and it reveals some of the top challenges that hospitals face today, not the least of which is related to vendor neutral archiving system protocols. The report...
Cloud PACS is About Private Clouds, Not Google
There was a day not long ago that clinicians feared the cloud. They looked at it as a place where nothing was private and everything could be hacked, accessed and compromised. That is yesterday’s thinking; today, clinicians are looking to the private cloud as a safe...
Managing Hospital Data Without PACS Bulk
Healthcare IT professionals are becoming more familiar with the phrase “deconstructing PACS.” It’s essentially the process of looking at PACS from a new angle. No longer are professionals in the medical industry interested in bulky proprietary units that make it next...
How Virtual CD Helps Solve Main Meaningful Use Challenges
Meaningful Use, as you are probably already well aware, is a Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program that is supposed to help improve patient care while giving the government assurances that facilities getting federal money are actually deserving of it. As rural...
Deconstructing PACS: We’ve Been Doing it For Years
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) haven’t always been as convenient to use as they are today. Unfortunately, there are still vendors trying to put all clients into a single, vendor-controlled solution that makes it an ongoing cost issue involving...