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Different Uses for Hospital Data: How Two Entities Use VNA
For a medical facility to be considered modern today, they have to be up to date on the platforms they use to share medical images. The most popular form of managing such tasks is through picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Increasingly, providers are...
Surprising Notes From ForbesAbout Electronic Personal Health Records
If you were to read only the headline of Forbes’ article on electronic health records (EHR), you’d think they were the bane of the healthcare industry: “Electronic Health Records – Expensive, Disruptive and Here to Stay.” The article leads with saying physicians are...
Radiology PACS System: How is Workflow Shifting?
Radiology professionals can’t ignore the latest technological advances that are changing the way medical imaging is carried out today. If they do patient care could lag behind. Some people are still trying to figure out what makes the cloud a step up, even though it’s...
Rural Hospitals: Small But Mighty With Best Health Information Exchange
It’s not written anywhere that because you are a small, rural, critical care hospital that you can only have access to subpar technology. However, due to resource hurdles, which include a lack of human resources as well as a lack of funding, you probably are paired up...
Vendor Neutral Archiving System Puts You in Charge of the Data
The phrase “vendor neutral archiving system” is talked about often, however, the definition isn’t the same for everybody, which can cause some confusion. Some hospitals learn too late that their supposed vendor neutral archiving system isn’t as vendor neutral as they...
Radiology PACS System: Save Diagnosis Time
One of the biggest advantages healthcare facilities with radiology PACS systems enjoy is the speed at which they can store, access and send their medical imaging. However, the advantages melt away when the PACS won’t effectively communicate with other systems. What...
Rural Hospital Data Management: Living up to Promises?
America has more than 2,000 small town hospitals, most of which are in rural areas. Very few of these can say they aren’t affected negatively by the push to adopt electronic medial records systems. Hospitals that are implementing electronic medial records systems are...
Image Transmission: Let’s Talk Speed, and How Technology Saves Lives
Goose and Maverick felt the “need for speed” in the mid-1980s movie, Top Gun. They found that speed in an F-14A Tomcat. Healthcare providers are also looking for speed, but in a vastly different form of technology. Doctors rely on diagnostic imaging, such as x-rays,...
Are Rural Hospitals Really Implementing New Tools in Hospital Data Management?
While there seems to be a multitude of support for implementing health information technology, it appears that funding is sidestepping the rural communities and heading straight for healthcare providers in more densely populated areas. A recent report titled “Progress...