Healthcare Enterprise: Juggling Interoperability and Other Stage 2 Issues

by Offsite | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Healthcare Enterprise

If you reached Stage 1 requirements of Meaningful Use in 2011, Stage 2 of the Federal Electronic Health Records is now underway. Now that providers have had at least some introduction to Meaningful Use, some pain points have popped up. If you are a provider that is...

Image Transmission and Networking Rural Hospitals: Not All Smooth Sailing?

by Offsite | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog, Image Transmission

If there is an industry where people expect the most modern technology to be in use – it’s the medical industry. However, at issue today is the method by which radiologists are able to store and share their medical images. When it comes to storing, accessing and...

Different Uses for Hospital Data: How Two Entities Use VNA

by Offsite | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog, Vendor Neutral Archiving

For a medical facility to be considered modern today, they have to be up to date on the platforms they use to share medical images. The most popular form of managing such tasks is through picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Increasingly, providers are...

Surprising Notes From ForbesAbout Electronic Personal Health Records

by Offsite | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Electronic Personal Health Records

If you were to read only the headline of Forbes’ article on electronic health records (EHR), you’d think they were the bane of the healthcare industry: “Electronic Health Records – Expensive, Disruptive and Here to Stay.” The article leads with saying physicians are...

Radiology PACS System: How is Workflow Shifting?

by Offsite | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, PACS

Radiology professionals can’t ignore the latest technological advances that are changing the way medical imaging is carried out today. If they do patient care could lag behind. Some people are still trying to figure out what makes the cloud a step up, even though it’s...