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- A PACS Pact
- By Aine Cryts, Imaging Economics When four competitive health care providers decide to share a PACS, trust is as much a concern as technology. A long-distance runner with painful, persistent knee pain ends up in the emergency department at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash. Three days previous, she’d had a scan of her knee done [...]
- PACS Continuity in the Eye of Hurricane Sandy: Bellevue Hospital Center
- By Cat Vasko, ImagingBiz.com When Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath devastatedNew York,New York, in October 2012, perhaps no one was more vulnerable than the patients needing care in area hospitals. Eli Tarlow, CIO of the city’s Bellevue Hospital Center (BHC), recalls, “It was the best of times and worst of times—a natural event that no [...]
- Economies of Scale Between Competitors: Northwest ImageShare
- By Cat Vasko, Imaging Biz Four Washington health-care providers located on the Kitsap Peninsula, west of Seattle—Harrison Medical Center, Advanced Medical Imaging, The Doctors Clinic, and Olympic Radiology—knew that having competitors was creating problems for patients. For instance, it was not uncommon for a patient to be admitted to Harrison Medical Center’s emergency department, having [...]
- Putting the Focus on Radiation Dose
- Healthcare providers must increasingly monitor radiology exam dose levels to enhance patient safety and meet new regulatory demands.
- Image handling across departments borders
- Current trends in healthcare call for an image handling strategy for all medical disciplines. Although medical images are used in numerous medical specialities, they are often not stored and distributed in a way that is efficient for the healthcare enterprise. Images constitute an important decision support with a huge cost-savings potential; when handled efficiently, the [...]
- Emerging breast imaging technologies put new demands on RIS/PACS
- Mammography screening programs have significantly reduced the mortality rate of breast cancer. However, screening programs still contain scope for improvement since all cancers are not detected. There are many research projects investigating new techniques to improve sensitivity and specificity. In this article, Anders Granlund Product Manager for Sectra’s Breast Imaging IT suite, will highlight some [...]
- Key role for radiology in future healthcare
- Looking back, changes within radiology have largely been driven by technology changes. The digital era and new modalities are but two obvious examples. But looking ahead, we see economics and costs as driving forces for change. Radiology is a key player in achieving affordable care in this environment. Radiology, being in such a central position, [...]
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