Editors Note: We asked Meike Lerner, managing editor of European Hospital Magazine, for her thoughts on the hot topics she expects at RSNA 2011. Quo vadis PACS? It was the central issue at the Annual Scientific Meeting Management in Radiology (MIR) of the European Society of Radiology
Read MoreI suspect no radiology department is ever 100 percent happy with their PACS, RIS or Voice Recognition system. We are no exception, and decided to evaluate what we currently have and what might be available. We had not done that since we selected our current
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There is a common misconception that dedicated 3D Workstations are required for successful interpretation of advanced imaging results. However, the annual “Workstation Faceoff,” part of the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, proved otherwise. [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="300"] Radiologist Michalle Soudack presenting cases at the Workstation Faceoff.
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A recent CapSite study[1] revealed that some 20 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations will be replacing their PACS either this year or next. As with any IT system replacement there are many factors to be considered, ranging from physician and department workflow to revenue cycles
Read MoreDr. David Channin of Northwestern University Medical School speaks to us about workstation-enabled radiologist productivity. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmchwMAGb7M] Do you agree / disagree with Dr. Channin? What are your keys to productivity?
Read MoreSo, another annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America has come and gone. The ghosts of contracts past fade as we await the transmogrification of handshakes present into the ghosts of contract future. We sit back and decompress a bit, perhaps loosen the
Read MoreWhen it comes to the radiology reading, one of the weakest links is the lack of access to patient information. To provide an accurate read, radiologists should have patient information as well as current and prior imaging studies. As a radiologist, the typical patient clinical
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I recently attended Les Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR) in Paris, where I spoke with numerous health care providers attending the show.
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We are all familiar with the problem: Hospitals cannot easily share medical imaging exams because different vendors’ PACS platforms cannot easily communicate with each other. Radiologists are then forced to use different health care sites or workstations to read exams. This is not exactly a model
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