Deconstructed PACS: State of the Art Solutions and More Control

by Offsite | May 27, 2019 | Blog

How Deconstructed PACS is Changing the Landscape It seems like yesterday that light boxes, film and rolloscopes were the norm in radiology. However, the future, even back then, was increasingly pointing toward a digital process. Quickly, film took a back seat to new...

Benefits of DICOM Image Exchange: Across All Fields

by Offsite | May 15, 2019 | Blog, DICOM

The Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standard has a history dating back to the early 1980s. If you weren’t a manufacturer of computed tomography or a specialist in magnetic resonance imaging, you probably couldn’t decode images until the DICOM...

Surprise: Hospital Data Loss Underserved, Few Have HIE

by Offsite | May 6, 2019 | Blog, Hospital Data Loss

Don’t Get Caught up in Hospital Data Loss A study from Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation reveals that only 30 percent of hospitals in the U.S. are part of a health information exchange (HIE). While there has been a slight increase in the...

Got PACS: You Also Need DICOM

by Offsite | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Cloud PACS

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...

Three Facts About the Honeycomb That Impact Your Hospital’s Image Sharing

by Offsite | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Honeycomb Exchange

The segue from film to digital images has greatly affected the ability of healthcare providers to provide better quality care to their patients, mostly because of the quickness with which the images can be transported. However, not all DICOMs and picture archiving...