Single-vendor workstations are no longer the norm
when it comes to mammography. Multiple modality mammography workstations have
taken hold because of the additional benefits they provide. Grants for 3-D
mammograms are providing the funding needed for upgrades, but when upgrading
you can’t forget about updating your PACS.
Improved PACS
Rather than store everything on-premise, which can lead to many challenges,
healthcare providers are moving toward cloud-based solutions. Vendor neutral
data storage solutions provide a robust alternative to what was once a
time-consuming, personnel intense and costly way of managing and viewing images.
3-D mammograms can contain a large amount of data. In fact, a typical
tomosynthesis can range from 450 megabytes to three gigabytes. A day’s worth of
patient visits for this procedure can take up a lot of room on anyone’s local
server. Therefore, it makes sense to go with a cloud-based solution.
But size isn’t the only worry; access to these images can be road blocked by
proprietary mammography workstations. To overcome this problem, choose a vendor
neutral provider of offsite imaging.
Getting a Good Read
The key to accurate mammography diagnosis is a good reading workstation. You
want to get the most advanced vendor neutral 3-D mammography reading
workstation that will work with any vendor and any type of image. Furthermore,
you need options to integrate with other modalities.
Most mammogram
workstations can only do mammograms. Working with the right vendor will give
you access to do mammography and related ultrasounds and MRIs. Flexible
solutions are the go-to option for upgrading the way you handle your imaging
today.
Getting the Upgrade
When digital mammography was still in its infancy, the image view options
were scant, at best. The usual scenario was to match up the digital acquisition
with a vendor’s mammography workstation. That was not exactly ideal for most
providers, as it limited access and necessitated a workaround in the PACS.
Another problem was the cost of the workstations and the complexities involved
with a hybrid environment. In some situations, simply reading an image file
became nearly impossible.
With multiple modality view solutions, these problems of the past are becoming
more infrequent.
The Offsite Solution
OffSite Image Management is the only company that allows you to cross
correlate between mammograms and ultrasounds or any other modality. We give radiologists
the tools they need to have multiple views simultaneously from multiple
modalities. This minimizes workflow and makes your entire process very
efficient.
We know that cost matters, and given that a sixth of all hospitals across the
country struggle with their current budgets, our goal is to connect providers
with solutions that matter. That’s why we are typically less than half the cost
of a standard mammography workstation and offer more modalities to view.
Contact
us, and let’s discuss our methods.
We’ll save you money, but we’ll also improve the way you process your daily workflow.
