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.

Successful integration of CDs into PACS has the potential to reduce the number of imaging studies performed in hospital emergency departments, according to a two-part study conducted at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in the May issue of Radiology.

In February, the FDA issued a first-of-its-kind clearance for a mobile app for medical imaging, granting radiologists the regulatory go-ahead to interpret CR, MRI, and nuclear-imaging studies remotely on iPhones and iPads if a diagnostic monitor is unavailable. The approval signifies that the growing trend of mobile medicine has finally reached the

On February 10, 2011, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) launched its Social Media Health Network, a group aimed at leveraging social media to improve health care. Charter members of the network include Mayo Clinic; Bon Secours Health System (Marriottsville, Maryland); Inova Health System (Falls Church, Virginia); Mission Health System (Asheville,

Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada, first considered a cloud-based platform when its 12–year-old PACS was on its last legs. Facing a significant capital expenditure to replace it with another traditional PACS, the team at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center wondered whether it would be possible to achieve similar or better clinical

While cost reduction initially prompts many health-care organizations to investigate cloud computing, there is an even more compelling reason to use it. By making your internal IT resources available for projects needing immediate attention, you enhance your agility, according to “Cloud Computing: Taking It to the Next Level,” presented on February

INFINITT Healthcare, a global player in picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and 3D Visualization software, yesterday announced that that it has signed a three-year contract extension to provide Enterprise-wide PACS solutions for The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NUTH), one