PACS
Researchers have identified a shared wealth of knowledge at an Australian hospital; as pages sent out to MDs, informing them their images were available in the PACS significantly diminished the time between when studies were ready and when they were viewed.
The team from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, discovered that integrating a straightforward paging notification system diminished the average waiting time for clinician image review from
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PACS News
Paging System Hastens Clinician Access to Medical Images…
Researchers have identified a shared wealth of knowledge at an Australian hospital; as pages sent out to MDs, informing them their images were available in the PACS significantly diminished the time between when studies were ready and when they were viewed.
The team from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, discovered that integrating a straightforward paging notification system diminished the average waiting time for clinician image review from
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Web-Based PACS Turns PCs into Image-Processing …
A new picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a highly multifaceted and readable web-centered system that grants access to medical images throughout the enterprise for faster diagnosis, reporting, storing, and distribution of clinical
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White Paper to Support Teleradiology…
A white paper on teleradiology is due to be issued by the European Society of Radiology in December this year, to coincide with the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago.
A task force made up of 13 members from different parts
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Whittington Picks Set of Sectra Systems…
The Whittington Hospital in North London has signed a ten-year contract with Sectra to provide a PACS, RIS and vendor neutral archive.
The Sectra system will replace a PACS from Siemens Healthcare, originally procured in 2001, well before the PACS
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Sectra and Swedish Healthcare Provider Sign Nine-Year …
Blekinge County Council has signed a nine-year contract with medical imaging IT company, Sectra (STO: SECT B).
The contract includes development, maintenance and support of the comprehensive county council IT solutions for the management of medical
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Picking Out the Best PACS for Organization Imaging …
Buying a PACS is a long term investment made by a healthcare organization, be it a hospital or a midsized outpatient practice.
It is the building blocks of a healthcare organization’s radiology and thus medical operations, without the most
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KLAS ratings of PACS vendors and products…
KLAS, an independently owned and operated company that helps healthcare providers make informed decisions regarding their IT systems, conducts 40 performance and perceptions report annually. The reports measure vendor performance to improve
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CHIME Wants 1-Year Extension of Meaningful Use Stage 2…
In response to a call last month from six GOP senators to reboot the Meaningful Use incentive program, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives said, instead, it would like to see more time given to providers, payers and vendors
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Trusts Urged to Think PACS/RIS 24/7…
Trusts need to be thinking about future requirements for a 24/7 NHS when they plan their PACS and RIS procurements, according to Erika Denton, national clinical director for diagnostics, NHS England.
Denton spoke to EHI Imaging Informatics at an
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Trusts Urged to Act on PACS Procurement…
Trusts have been warned not to delay the start of the procurement process for picture archiving and communications systems to replace those negotiated under the National Programs for IT in the NHS.
Dave Burns, senior buyer for NHS Supply Chain,
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GE Wins PACS and RIS Deal in Kent…
A Kent and Medway consortium has signed a contract with GE Healthcare to supply picture archiving and communications and radiology information systems for the next seven years.
The consortium, formed in September 2011, is made up of four hospital
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Providers: Consider VNA, Cloud Computing During PACS …
While the U.S. PACS market is relatively mature, providers continually are thinking about replacement options.
In a commentary published at AuntMinnie, Herman Oosterwijk, president of Aubrey, Texas-based OTech, a healthcare imaging and IT company,
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PACS/RIS Refresh Reaches London
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The shake-up of England’s PACS/RIS market is well underway, with trusts in London becoming the latest to start work on plans to exit from the national programme contracts drawn up a decade ago.
The latest research from EHI Intelligence shows that
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