The road to a successful PACS implementation cuts a swath of potholes and deep chasms that can be avoided if you pave a smooth road in the very beginning by adopting a few simple steps in the request for proposal (RFP) process.
Traditional models of funding capital expenditures through fundraising, borrowing the money or issuing tax-exempt bonds have now been joined by new approaches that have been designed to reduce the financial burden of implementing PACS when institutions la
Many think of PACS data migration as something that only needs to be addressed when the decision has been made to convert from one PACS vendor to another. Yet, recent HIPAA Security requirements are an immediate regulatory driver for data migration projec
How can those IT professionals in PACS management, or PSAs with a clinical background satisfy their continuing education needs, or demonstrate proficiency and accomplishment to employers?
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Radiation oncology providers, particularly those offering IMRT and IGRT, are starting to implement needed solutions that allow them to store, recall and compare more and larger image datasets.
Cardiac SPECT is benefitting from enhanced attenuation correction as well as powerful, small field-of-view systems geared for small spaces and new SPECT-CT hybrid scanners bringing more comprehensive cardiac imaging workups.
Advanced visualization workstations and software have grown up - enabling radiologists to produce higher quality results in less time and opening the doors to new exams, more tools and better physician and patient education.
Since cost is always a factor, medical imaging archives must incorporate ingenuity in their design, including lower cost media which still meets end-user quality requirements.
Traditional models of funding capital expenditures through fundraising, borrowing the money or issuing tax-exempt bonds have now been joined by new approaches that have been designed to reduce the financial burden of implementing PACS when institutions la
The Society of Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) meeting - which takes place in early June this year - is now firmly established as the principal PACS industry meeting, supplanting RSNA and AHRA with a sharp focus on all aspects of radiology IT.
Healthcare IT is in the news again this month with the introduction of the 21st Century Health Information Act - the first bipartisan bill to address the major elements and try to spur adoption of electronic health records (and the "systemic obstacles and misaligned incentives that have hindered health information technology adoption," in the words of the official release).
More targeted radiotherapy and technological advancements in imaging, treatment planning and treatment delivery are tremendously improving cancer patient outcomes.
