Bring the Images to You With Teleradiology Services
Telehealth solutions, including teleradiology, have stepped up to fill many needs for healthcare providers.
What Steps Can We Take to Protect Rural Hospital Data?
Despite the encryption technology and password-protected files, millions of healthcare data breaches occur every year. Most hospitals spend large amounts of money to follow security measures put in place by the federal government, which ensures that data isn’t getting into the wrong hands. Yet it still occurs and these facilities face millions of dollars in fines […]
Lessons From Boulder: Patients Frustrated Over Data Loss
Technology has gone a long way in assisting healthcare professionals in providing quality care for their patients. But when the technology goes on the blink, the ability to provide care is severely hampered. A recent computer system outage at a community hospital in Boulder, CO proved the point when data loss became a serious issue. […]
Doctors Say Why Electronic Health Records Matter
Healthcare professionals spend a lifetime upholding the oath they took early in their careers. The oath requires them to care for the sick to the best of their abilities and judgment. Technology, no doubt, has assisted them throughout the centuries in keeping this oath. The latest generation of doctors has electronic health records (EHR) to […]
Weighing in on Electronic Rural Hospital Data Storage
Limited budgets can limit the resources rural hospitals have in their data storage options. Some are finding that partnerships with larger hospitals in the region can ease the burden of storage needs, which seems to grow with each passing year. A recent study by Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence found that rural hospital data storage […]
Rural Hospital Data: Do Smaller Hospitals Fall Behind?
Cancer, heart disease and other ailments that befall those that live in the city are no different than what those in rural communities face. But what health experts are trying to determine is why the number of life-threatening ailments hasn’t fallen in rural areas like it has in urban areas. One reason might be that […]
Electronic Health Records Search Tool Compliments Image Transmission
The amount of information available to healthcare providers today has drastically increased due to electronic health records. Because of this influx of data, it has become important for this information to be searchable. Some refer to this as a “sea of information” that needs to be Googled in order to find what’s needed. For medical […]
Small Hospitals, Meaningful Use and PACS Certification: Will Too Many be Too Far Behind by 2015?
“It takes a team effort” is a trite phrase, but it’s something IT professionals in the medical industry know holds a lot of truth, especially as the industry braces for the changes they face as Meaningful Use standards drop. Small and rural hospitals are at particular risk of being left behind as they historically struggle […]