What do the Best Health Information Exchange Platforms Have in Common?
Health information exchanges (HIEs), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have come a long way in allowing medical facilities to share valuable information between the physicians, radiologists and other specialists that work hard to provide the best quality of care possible to their patients. First off, the information must be capable of being shared securely […]
Three Facts About the Honeycomb That Impact Your Hospital’s Image Sharing
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 systems (PACS) are made equally. When providers started using PACS, most of them […]
What Happens When Hospital Data Gets Hacked?
Most healthcare facilities expend a great amount of resources toward compliance to safeguard patientinformation, which when compromised can lead to information getting in the wrong hands and hefty fines being handed down. Many compliance issues are violated when employees take laptops or thumb drives off campus and lose them or have them stolen and hospital […]
DICOM Exchange and Confidentiality
Digital imaging and communications in medicine, also known as DICOM, is the application layer network protocol for storing, sharing and printing medical imaging and information. The confidentiality of a DICOM exchange is of great importance to medical practitioners and IT administrators at healthcare facilities. Medical imaging is often the link between an illness and a […]
What’s the Buzz About Honeycomb?
The Honeycomb advanced image exchange was built around the concept of sharing images with healthcare professionals so that they can bring a better quality of care to their patients. Developed by the experts at OffSite Image Management, llc., Honeycomb assists hospitals and clinics in rural areas with a means to take their images from their […]
Honeycomb Exchange at Hospitals: Who is Doing it?
Electronic health records (EHRs) are fast becoming the norm as more and more hospitals comply with federal regulations that require specific guidelines on how medical records are stored and accessed. Medical imaging is also part of that process, which has some facilities scrambling to be in compliance, mostly due to the expense of the technology […]
Answers for Hospital Data Silo Problems, Including the “Honeycomb” System for Images
Everything is going digital. If you work in the healthcare industry, you know this better than anyone as your organization struggles to digitize patient records. Most healthcare providers have already spent many, many hours digitalizing patient information for their Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchanges. The unfortunate aspect of digital integration is that the […]