2005 March

Cardiology departments are revamping their image capture and management systems with digital technology to combat growing patient volumes and enhance patient safety, efficiency and overall care.

Creating robust backbones, testing sites for wireless and negotiating bandwidth are jumping off points for building solid networks.

3T MRI made its name with brain studies at research institutes. But now it is cross-pollinating in academic and community-based medical centers, performing a wider variety of scans.

Choice is a new addition to digital mammography displays and workstations - with new monitors now on the market.

Reliability, longevity, cost and ability to grow easily are the key considerations for long-term media.

The University of North Texas (UNT) recently performed a survey to assess PACS security architectures and usage in more than 40 institutions. The facilities ranged in size from 100- to 1,000-bed facilities, and represented anywhere from 50,000 to one million examinations per year.

Have you ever had to view an ECG remotely and couldn't? Had add-on echo procedures go unbilled? Had to enter patient information into multiple cath lab systems (and feared you'd make a data entry error!)?