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Image Management and Meaningful Use: How to Succeed
If Meaningful Use requirements have got you down, don’t feel alone – many providers, especially in rural areas, are struggling. By developing an effective plan, some are pulling out of the mess and delivering excellent results in their efforts to comply with...
Offsite Radiology Backup and HIPAA
As a medical provider, you closely follow the regulations set forth in the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). You might not enjoy all the safeguards put in place, but HIPAA is in place to protect the public, which means you’ve got to accept...
Why DICOM Image Exchange for Best Image Sharing?
If you’re involved with medical imaging, you are probably well aware of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), the network protocol that has been used for years to transmit images and waveforms. What you might not have known is that the National...
What’s so Great About a Virtual CD?
Anyone who has spent a decade or more in the healthcare industry can attest to the changes that occur in technology. Within the radiology industry, a big change occurred when compact disc technology hit the scene. Instead of sharing images on film, radiologists could...
Electronic Health Records Search Tool Compliments Image Transmission
The amount of information available to healthcare providers today has drastically increased due to electronic health records. Because of this influx of data, it has become important for this information to be searchable. Some refer to this as a “sea of information”...
Could Cloud PACS Save a Rural Hospital?
In tough economic times, virtually every industry is affected and the healthcare industry is certainly not immune. For critical access hospitals already strained in financial and personnel resources, the decline can come quickly, even in times of economic stability....
Electronic Health Records Glitch: Will Doctors be Penalized?
The Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a rule offering flexibility to healthcare providers, large hospitals and critical access hospitals, allowing them to use 2011 edition electronic health records technology for the 2014 electronic health...
Healthcare Enterprise: Juggling Interoperability and Other Stage 2 Issues
If you reached Stage 1 requirements of Meaningful Use in 2011, Stage 2 of the Federal Electronic Health Records is now underway. Now that providers have had at least some introduction to Meaningful Use, some pain points have popped up. If you are a provider that is...
Image Transmission and Networking Rural Hospitals: Not All Smooth Sailing?
If there is an industry where people expect the most modern technology to be in use – it’s the medical industry. However, at issue today is the method by which radiologists are able to store and share their medical images. When it comes to storing, accessing and...