Earlier this year University Hospital was named the best hospital in San Antonio by U.S. News & World Report in its first-ever ranking of “best hospitals” for 52 U.S. metropolitan areas. This highlights the outstanding efforts of our physicians and staff to use new
Read MoreMaxine Nesbitt, A+E Radiography Team Leader at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, talked with us about her experience with wireless DR with the CARESTREAM DRX Family technology. The brand new hospital installed DR right away, and saw decreased exam times and improved patient care compared
Read MoreJohn Olson, MD, Chief of Neurosurgery, Heartland Regional Medical Center, talked with us about his experience using the CARESTREAM DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kit in the operating room. He found that the rapid access to images can save as much as 20 minutes during each surgery - which
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At our facility, every woman who has a mammogram gets an immediate diagnosis as part of her office visit. We believe in delivering real-time results because it eases our patients’ fears. Many come in for a mammogram because a friend or family member has been
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Note to reader: Carestream has installed the CARESTREAM DRX Family of products in facilities across the world. In a series of posts, customers have agreed to share their experiences. “The integrated, automated DRX-Evolution suite delivers enhanced productivity and positioning flexibility due to the DRX-1 detectors—and it is
Read MoreIn the Emergency Department of most hospitals, physicians’ imaging dreams are coming true. Today, because of new wireless DR technology, imaging in the ER and OR is practically immediate. Image quality is enhanced, and dosage minimized. We asked Marjorie Calvetti, Administrative Director of Radiology at Memorial
Read MoreColin West, Head of Imaging Services, discusses his staff's use of the CARESTREAM DRX-1 system at this pre-eminent London hospital. Benefits include cutting patient turnaround times in half and reducing X-ray examination times from eight to five minutes per exam.
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Nowhere is the processing of CR cassettes more inconvenient than in a portable environment. So if hospitals had the ability to quickly and easily convert their existing mobile x-ray systems to DR, would they take it? Indeed they would, according to healthcare providers who are eagerly
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
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