This week's articles focus on interoperability trends to watch in 2016, how socioeconomic factors affect patient care in radiology, FDA and PACS users, embracing the value-based payment model, and the population health management market. HIE and Interoperability Trends to Watch in 2016 - Healthcare IT News As
Read More[caption id="attachment_5508" align="alignleft" width="107"] Menashe Benjamin, Vice President, HCIS, Carestream[/caption] This year marked the 12th annual International Society for Computed Tomography’s (ISCT) Workstation Face-off at Multidtector-row CT (MDCT) 2014. Doctors representing four vendors (Siemens, Phillips, TeraRecon and Carestream) worked on four different cases with the vendor’s
Read MoreThe Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Consortium covers 11 trusts in the UK and chose Carestream to be their new PACS supplier after their existing contracts for PACS and RIS systems, delivered through the National Program for Information Technology (NPfIT), expired. When selecting a new provider,
Read More[caption id="attachment_745" align="alignleft" width="150"] Anne Richards, Clinical Development Manager, Women’s Healthcare, Carestream[/caption] A recent article in the Wall Street Journal on 3-D mammography discussed the potential for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to enhance the detection of cancers. I was reminded of how important it is to
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Encompass Medical Group recently installed a CARESTREAM Vue PACS to serve its eight locations in the greater Kansas City area. Susan Stidham, Director of Ancillary Services at Encompass Medical Group shares her thoughts on PACS support for breast imaging modalities and how it impacted their PACS selection
Read MoreFor RadCare being one of the most respected and fastest growing radiology management companies in the U.S. means keeping 85 radiologists, 30 teleradiologists and 22 hospitals satisfied 24/7. That is no small feat when reading 2 million imaging exams each year for healthcare providers with
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Recently, we received FDA clearance for the use of our Vue Motion medical image viewer with mobile devices. Supported devices for this new technology include the iPad and almost all other mobile tablets. What makes Vue Motion so unique is that its the first web-based viewer that
Read MorePeter Sharpe, CEO of Cobalt Health in the UK, discusses the educational opportunities at RSNA and how Cobalt Health uses Carestream PACS to share fully-fused images with clients across the U.K. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrtyC278ts&w=560&h=315]
Read MoreMark Straub, PACS Administrator at West Allegheny Health System in Pennsylvania, talks about what to look for when evaluating PACS systems at a massive show like RSNA 2011, how his facility chose their CARESTREAM VUE SuperPACS solution and what's on his radar - zero-footprint mobile
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For a while it seemed that the ICD-10 deadline would never come. Calling all radiology practices… Now, less than two years away from the October 1, 2013 deadline for ICD-10, many in the industry are just starting to address this issue. For those who don’t
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