New buyers of PAC systems represent only a small minority of customers, according to IMV Medical Information Division. The need to upgrade or replace systems is the primary driver in the PACS marketplace, with the lion’s share of purchases going for current-system upgrades. More »
In our experience, EMRs are not working, and we need a different solution. Fast. Here are just three of the problems. In our opinion, Medicare needs to stop the train at the station until some other important issues are addressed that enable EMR to be effective. More »
On March 2, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services secretary released a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing a certification program for electronic health records (EHRs).1 More »
For the past 15 years, most PACS have performed the basic tasks of taking in images, archiving them, sending them to workstations for display, and hopefully not losing them. More »
Efforts to interconnect information systems raise the possibility that different experiences from multiple sites might be pooled and the practice of medicine made better through a kind of collective wisdom. At the ISCT symposium, Sandy Napel, Ph.D., a Stanford professor of radiology and codirector... More »
What do you get when you mix contrast delivery with computer technology? Dr. Dominik Fleischmann, director of CT at Stanford Hospital and Clinics kicks off a session at the International Society for Computed Tomography conference starting May 18 on contrast medium delivery and image enhancement. He... More »
The last decade-plus has seen unprecedented development in all aspects of CT technology. Presenters will kick off the International Society for Computed Tomography symposium Tuesday morning May 18 looking at this evolution as part of the “Technology: Present and Future” session. More »
Douglas Blair, senior director of physician information systems at Mount Carmel Health System in central Ohio, describes its pre-upgrade practice management software as “essentially broken for us. My understanding is that it has code in it that’s over 30 years old.” More »
