2003 December

Healthcare providers today are utilizing the electronic medical record for more immediate access to patient images and to run more efficient administrative functions in hospitals and solo practices.

Radiology departments have experienced a tremendous boon in productivity where information can travel with a technologist via a wireless network instead of remaining at a fixed computer.

The value of PACS escalates as radiologists expand their volume of work and other providers seek subspecialty expertise through teleradiology.

By importing detailed anatomical images into an image-guided surgery planning system, neurosurgeons and other surgeons gain a roadmap to superimpose on a patient's internal structure.

While PACS enables radical changes in how an imaging center or radiology department manages its business, the intelligence features of the radiology information system (RIS) manage department workflow.

As digital medical images continue to gain favor, healthcare organizations face new challenges that didn't exist when images were solely analog. And due to increasing pressure from government and industry regulators and the shock of a attacks, blackouts a

Film on a lightbox or a digital image on a monitor - while the purpose is the same, the technology behind each is oh so different. The bottom line remains that the radiologist wants to know that the images - analog or digital - are of optimal diagnostic q

Cardiology is a growing, rapidly evolving segment in the healthcare arena. The last several years have seen tremendous advances in cardiac imaging and information technologies, such as the introductions of the first magnetic catheter navigation system, 16-slice computed tomography (CT) systems that can detect soft coronary plaque, and new self-gating magnetic resonance (MR) software that eliminates the need to obtain an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal.

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