Features to Look For in Best PACS System
Film processing is expensive and storing the sensitive images can be a compliance problem for medical imaging offices. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established not only to deal with cost and compliance issues, but to make sharing these images between healthcare professionals easier. The best PACS system can handle massive amounts of […]
Weighing in on Electronic Rural Hospital Data Storage
Limited budgets can limit the resources rural hospitals have in their data storage options. Some are finding that partnerships with larger hospitals in the region can ease the burden of storage needs, which seems to grow with each passing year. A recent study by Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence found that rural hospital data storage […]
Rural Hospital Data: Do Smaller Hospitals Fall Behind?
Cancer, heart disease and other ailments that befall those that live in the city are no different than what those in rural communities face. But what health experts are trying to determine is why the number of life-threatening ailments hasn’t fallen in rural areas like it has in urban areas. One reason might be that […]
Even One Small “Event” Means Facing a Business Continuity Planning Failure for Patients, Staff
Business Continuity Planning Improves With Offsite Services When any healthcare provider is without access to patient data because of an unplanned event, the importance of business continuity planning quickly becomes apparent, and should promote action. Interruptions are going to happen, but how a hospital deals with those interruptions varies widely from provider to provider. There […]
Boost Your Hospital Reputation With Top Data Backup
Having Data Backup Issues? Use a Cloud-Based Solution The technology surrounding the healthcare industry continues to advance, which is a plus for healthcare providers, but those advancements also come with risks. Cybersecurity is an ongoing issue that providers address on a daily basis. Preventing breaches of security requires investments in time and money, but it […]
Why a Cloud PACS Brings it for Data Backup
Finding More Efficiencies in a Cloud-Based Data Backup There are specific necessities when it comes to healthcare providers, medical images and data backup. From the radiologist looking to pull an image from an archive to a surgeon needing an image for reference while in the operating room – having on-demand access to these images is […]