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What You Can Expect in Health Image Exchange and DICOM in 2016
The State of DICOM, 2016 What we learned last year in the healthcare industry is that with new healthcare regulations, providers were given incentives to avoid procedures deemed unnecessary. This means more and more providers are moving toward more collaborative...
Nearly 30 Million Hospital Data Records Breached Annually: Do You Have a Plan?
Don’t Let Your Hospital Data be Compromised The numbers are staggering – too many healthcare providers are allowing their data to fall into the hands of the wrong people. According to Redspin, a security firm, around 30 million patient records a year have been...
Best Health Information Exchange Starts With Simple Login
Get the Best Health Information Exchange for Your Facility Meaningful Use is something that’s been on the minds of radiologists and healthcare IT professionals for some time now. Stage 2 of Meaningful Use involves six new objectives, one of which involves sharing...
Is There Still Disagreement Over What PACS and VNA Means (and Does)?
OffSite Offers PACS and VNA Solutions That Work Thanks to the sheer volume of medical image studies being carried out on a daily basis, and also because of the changing preferences of patients today, providers are on the lookout for more efficient and effective ways...
CNN Says Hospitals Lost 2.1 Million Patient Records to Hackers in 2014: Why Offsite Data Storage is Part of the Solution
Choose Offsite Data Storage for Your Facility A CNN Money report last year regarding the loss of patient data made a large impact on the general public, but was something most providers were already aware of. For those providers who have not been affected, it opened...
The End of Disparate Systems: Enterprise Archiving Centralizes Diagnostic Image Management
Get Ahead of the Game With Enterprise Archiving Electronic health records are becoming the go-to for patients and medical personnel alike. These records are full of a variety of data, including medical images, which can be quite large and must be available for quick...
Do You Have a Plan for Offsite Radiology Backup, Should Disaster Strike?
Offsite Radiology Backup – Be Prepared for Anything When a healthcare professional needs access to medical imaging, it better be there. In fact, 81 percent of those surveyed in an Infosys study last year said they were using or planning to use a mission-critical app...
Can Young Radiologists Help Lead Innovation in Health Image Exchange?
How the Health Image Exchange Can Improve Productivity Young people in a variety of professions are seeing challenges as they enter the workforce, but it’s especially true for young radiologists who are increasingly tasked with productivity-based metrics in the...
PACS Problems: Physicians Say Medical Images Must be Both “Fast and Filtered” to Save Lives
How PACS Improvements can Work for You Gaining a fast yet accurate diagnosis for the patient is critical in delivering the highest possible level of patient care. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always occur as it should, and sometimes, it’s because a medical image wasn’t...