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 […]
Keeping Costs Down When Moving from Outdated PACS to VNA
Improving Image Access and Shareability With VNA The healthcare industry has come a long way since the inception of cloud computing. First hesitant to jump into remote storage of sensitive information, the industry is now almost fully on board; HIMSS surveys show that 80 percent of respondents said they are using cloud services. Further enhancing […]
What You Can Expect in Health Image Exchange and DICOM in 2016
The State of DICOM, 2016 What we learned last year in the healthcare industry is that with new healthcare regulations, providers were given incentives to avoid procedures deemed unnecessary. This means more and more providers are moving toward more collaborative solutions that cut out the filler, especially in medical imaging where the health image exchange […]
Cloud PACS: The New Priority
How Cloud PACS is Changing the Radiology Landscape A fairly recent report from a data software company called peer60 reveals that when it comes to image sharing, the department that needs it most is radiology. Roughly 96 percent of providers surveyed said radiology is most in need, but coming in at a close second was […]
Instagram for Patient Image Transmission … It’s Possible, But Here’s Something Better
Instagram, the app that lets you share your photographic experiences with the world, started as a trendy little iOS app that has quickly blown up on Android devices and on the web. About 150 million users log in every month and there are now around 75 million users. Obviously, the ease at which one can […]
Image Transmission: Yes, it Affects Individualized Patient Diagnoses
Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are more than just a method of storing and retrieving images and data; doctors are leveraging the technology to put together plans for their patients to offer individualized care. PACS vendors are looking deeper into algorithms, like those established by the biggest search engines, to let healthcare professionals determine […]