First, a confession. I love PACS. I believe that implemented correctly, PACS can be a panacea to radiology. PACS is an enabler of great change to improve the delivery of services by radiology. At the same time, it is no guarantee. PACS represents change, More »
Personal digital assistants have the ability to make your practice more efficient. What are the choices of PDAs on the market, and which one is best for you? More »
The use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) by medical professionals has many advantages over traditional paper schedulers. The following is a compilation of additional resources offering information for using and integrating this new technology in your practice. For more information on choosing a... More »
Hybrid technologies churn large data volumesAdvanced computer-assisted diagnosis systems are beginning to evolve from the integration of PACS and data mining techniques.One technology, called i2i Vision, allows clinical researchers More »
The elusive electronic medical record (EMR) isn't pure hype, but it hasn't become reality either, an audience at the HIMSS meeting learned Tuesday.
"The EMR is a plausible idea that needs a lot of hard work to become a reality," said Karen J. Ondo, More »
Experts expect the use of wireless technology in healthcare to grow dramatically over the next few years, so much so that you could find your PDA linked to your PACS.
While less than 1% of physicians in the U.S. use handheld wireless devices for More »
DR. LEMKE is a professor of computer graphics and computer-assisted medicine at Technical University in Berlin, Germany.
Communication systems based on local area networks with ring topology were first developed More »
