Integrated digital archives, multimodality workstations and online reporting tools are bringing radiology and cardiology departments together to share the task of archiving cath lab and cardiac images.
The path to the all-digital healthcare enterprise is strewn with integration hurdles that continue to challenge organizations striving to implement images and information across departments, from admission and registration to treatment and discharge.
Over the past five years, rapid advances in ultrasound technology have made these systems more compact while increasing their ability to handle complex applications and provide greater image quality.
We're always trying to gauge the adoption of IT in healthcare, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently put forth some numbers that prove what we already knew - adoption is still limited, although growing.
