The worldwide market for Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) is expected to grow by 10% annually to about $5.8 billion by 2017, according to MarketResearch.com.

Nashville General Hospital joins a growing number of hospitals nationwide choosing to upgrade their information systems with integrated RIS/PACS platforms.

The research firm KLAS has named Intelerad Medical Systems number one in its ranking of ambulatory PACS.

The research firm KLAS reports that nearly 1 in 6 hospitals with more than 1,000 beds plan to replace their PACS system. Most hospitals, however, are more focused on meeting meaningful use criteria, based on a survey conducted by the firm.

Intelerad Medical Systems has launched InteleSuite™, a complete and customizable set of RIS/PACS solutions that combine the company’s

The ability to access online decision support solutions from within a PACS environment increases radiologists’ use of these tools, reveals a study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. However, integrated access must be provided upon system deployment rather than down the road.

Over the past few years, health-care providers have recognized the potential of enhanced physician access to patient information to improve physician efficiencies and, in turn, patient care. For some, migrating to an integrated PACS/electronic medical record (EMR) configuration—instead of maintaining the legacy IT model in which PACS and the EMR

In the island state of Hawaii, there is a four-hospital system, based in Honolulu, called Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH), with outposts and imaging technology deployed throughout the Hawaiian archipelago. This system is served by four different radiology practices, reading approximately 300,000 studies annually.