Top Challenges for Radiology With Archiving Structured Data
There is no doubt that a majority of healthcare providers have gone filmless in their imaging informatics. In fact, the most obvious change in radiology has been the transition to remote digital communication, which has been made possible by PACS and electronic medical records. Furthermore, many forms of electronic messaging, including e-mail, have been employed […]
A Brief History of PACS (a.k.a. Solving Vendor-Controlled Imaging Problems)
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 approaching phase III and electronic health records becoming not only the norm, […]