Report Says Integrated Image Transmission Could Improve Image Orders for Hospital Patients

by Offsite | Mar 10, 2015 | Blog, Image Transmission

The Journal of the American College of Radiology released a report recently that sheds some light on an issue that many radiology professionals are facing today regarding image transmission, clinical decision support and computerized physician order entry systems....

What’s The Big Deal About Deconstructing PACS and VNA?

by Offsite | Mar 6, 2015 | Blog, Cloud PACS

It wasn’t too long ago that radiology professionals relied on light boxes, film, rolloscopes and other items (that we now view as archaic) to get them through the typical workday. As digital technology became more widely available, vendors began creating solutions...

Enterprise Archiving Starts With a Strategy: What’s Yours?

by Offsite | Mar 3, 2015 | Enterprise Archive

Some healthcare providers aren’t putting a focus on their IT investment and it shows in the way their medical records, including images and HL7 data, are archived and shared. Radiologists and physicians working in these systems or with them know the difficulties...

A Brief History of PACS (a.k.a. Solving Vendor-Controlled Imaging Problems)

by Offsite | Feb 24, 2015 | Blog, PACS

Most radiologists would probably have no problem agreeing that the main issue PACS was built for was to tackle archiving. These same radiologists would probably agree that they are asking their PACS to do more than just archive today. With Meaningful Use requirements...

VNA Based PACS: At the Heart of Enterprise Imaging?

by Offsite | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, Vendor Neutral Archiving

There has been a lot of talk lately about “deconstructing” PACS. What is driving this conversation is the fact that healthcare organizations are taking a different approach to the typical departmental view of medical images. Instead of seeing these images as being...