Cloud PACS Brings Disparate Systems Together; Saves Costs, Improves Outcomes
Cloud PACS Get Your Images Off the Island For too many years the image management system used by healthcare providers has functioned like an island. PACS living on this island had no way off of it. Furthermore, nothing from other islands could reach the island. Cloud PACS is helping to build bridges between islands. As […]
Rural Hospitals and Cloud PACS: Unique Considerations
Cloud PACS Helps Rural Hospitals Improve Patient Services It wasn’t always the case, but the healthcare community is embracing cloud technology. It’s being deployed at a rapid rate as providers realize the vast streams of data they can access via off-premise servers. Even for rural hospitals, cloud PACS are becoming a way to save money […]
Cloud PACS: Stop Allowing Your PACS to be Dependent
Choose a Vendor Neutral Cloud PACS Stop allowing your existing PACS to be dependent on just one server. A better option is to adopt a cloud PACS where servers are virtually limitless. Healthcare IT professionals today are looking for PACS that offers the ability for each independent component of the PACS to operate independently, and […]
Were the Predictions About Hosted Cloud PACS Correct?
The Advantages of Hosted Cloud PACS Healthcare providers today are doing everything they can to control costs while improving their level of care. For radiologists and IT departments, these two objectives can prove difficult to exact simultaneously. However, hosted cloud PACS have been in the conversation for years as a possible solution. Have the solutions […]
The Benefits of a Cloud PACS Solution
Skepticism about the cloud is finally waning. Companies were often most skeptical about thesecurity risks involved with doing business in the cloud. This includes healthcare facilities that didn’t want to store their radiological images anywhere but on site. As cloud-based groups proved they could be reliable, mostly through choosing to store data with ultra-secure data […]
Got PACS: You Also Need DICOM
DICOM is the standard for handling, printing, sharing and storing medical imaging. Essentially, DICOM is an application layer network protocol developed by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the AmericanCollege of Radiology for CAT, Ultrasound and MRI scan images. Widely successful and implemented, DICOM is now controlled by the DICOM Standards Committee. PACS allow medical […]
Deconstructing PACS: Why it’s Still the Buzzword for Ending Data Silos
The Key Behind Deconstructing PACS Today many healthcare organizations are moving away from departmental PACS in an effort to provide more access to images as well as patient data. Electronic medical record access is the catalyst for some of this change, but so too is the patient expectations and accessibility issues clinicians face. Can deconstructing […]
Find Efficiencies in Cloud PACS
The Benefits of Cloud PACS It wasn’t long ago that when it came to shopping around for a PACS solution, your options were limited to fairly expensive to really expensive solutions – and nothing in between. Fortunately, cloud technology is expanding, giving cloud PACS the ability to offer a new and efficient way of meeting […]
Cloud PACS: Happier Patients, Happier Doctors?
Gaining Efficiencies With Cloud PACS The field of radiology is constantly evolving. For example, CD burning technology helped to phase out the old method of sharing images, which was primarily through film studies that were mailed from one facility to another or carried from one department to another. Cloud PACS and vendor neutral archiving (VNA) […]
Cloud Backup Services Can be the Answer to Hospital Data “Finger-Pointing”
Cloud Backup Services Can Help Protect You From Data Breaches The finger pointing is as ceaseless as the increasingly damaging attacks from hackers, yet healthcare providers are finding cloud backup services to be a quality preventative resource to keep data protected but also available at all times. Data breaches are seemingly a fact of life these […]