Radiology Workflow Improvements You Can Make Today
Healthcare professionals are tasked with caring for their patients, but they are also using various forms of communication and imaging technology to send and receive information from other professionals to provide better patient care. If you’re asking too much of your PACS, such as using it to try to manage a large number of metrics […]
Implementing VNA for Quality Data Storage
Vendor neutral archiving (VNA) can be implemented and lead to great results, but simply installing it and expecting ground-breaking improvements means you are missing the key component of a strategy. Most IT leaders look forward to implementing VNA because there are many challenges that can be overcome with a VNA solution, but it takes thought […]
Implementing a VNA Solution Can Help You Serve Patients Better
VNA brings value in a variety of ways, but one of its biggest perks is how it makes viewing images so much easier.
PACS and VNA: What’s Your Path?
Radiologists were already heavily invested in improving their digital processes, but with Stage 2 of Meaningful Use criteria announced a while back, it became obvious that the focus on medical images and their interaction with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) would continue to evolve. PACS, while initially a major improvement in archiving images, have […]
PACS and VNA to Reach $335 Million by 2018: What’s Fueling Growth?
Let PACS and VNA Combine to Give You Better Outcomes The value that PACS has had throughout the medical community is great. The advent of this technology 20 years ago helped phase out the decades-long process that involved expensive and inefficient film processes. However, PACS today is not enough on its own. PACS and VNA […]
Can PACS and VNA Get Along Well? Yes, Says Expert From RSNA
PACS Solutions Done Right and Offsite The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held its annual meeting recently where experts in the field of radiology discussed a variety of topics, including PACS and VNA as solutions to a better workflow. Michael Gray, a medical imaging consultant, expanded on the topic in a video featured on […]
Is There Still Disagreement Over What PACS and VNA Means (and Does)?
OffSite Offers PACS and VNA Solutions That Work Thanks to the sheer volume of medical image studies being carried out on a daily basis, and also because of the changing preferences of patients today, providers are on the lookout for more efficient and effective ways to archive, access and share medical images. Therefore, PACS and […]
PACS and VNA: A Case Study in Solutions
How PACS and VNA Combine to Offer Efficiencies in Imaging The amount of data that is generated by medical imaging is staggering. More and more Americans are seeking out diagnostic imaging specialists to help them with their healthcare needs, and it’s showing. In fact, some healthcare professionals say that finding ways to archive, share and […]
PACS and VNA: Stop Letting Your PACS Control Your Access
Bridging the GAP Between PACS and VNA Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) were first used in the early 1980s, but didn’t really start becoming the norm for providing storage for medical images until the 1990s. More recently, VNA has become the catchword that everyone in medical IT industry is talking about. PACS and VNA […]
Deconstructing PACS and VNA: Why it’s Inevitable
Cloud technology is being used around the world. Updates to operating systems no longer require a CD – everything comes over the Internet or “through the cloud”. It wasn’t long ago that medical professionals feared the cloud, feared breaking compliance regulations and accruing high priced fines for security leaks. While compliance issues are always a […]