At the 2011 RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago last month, the PACS industry seemed to have quit the era of out-of-tune marketing communications cold turkey. The collective marketing message perhaps lacked the energy of years past, but the different voices were certainly more in... More »
Nearly one in six hospitals and health systems over 1,000 beds reported that they have plans to replace their picture archiving and communication system (PACS), according to a new KLAS report that indicates that a new wave of replacements is ahead. More »
Imaging solutions provider Viztek will be debuting several new features for its Opal-RAD PACS at RSNA 2011, including a cloud-based image viewer. More »
Teleradiology firms have sought to differentiate themselves through ultra-subspecialization, faster turnaround times, and more efficient workflow IT solutions. They have been doing this so thoroughly — to the point in which the workflow solutions that they had originally developed for their own... More »
Broward General Hospital, part of Broward Health in South Florida, recently completed the implementation of a new system, the iSite PACS from Philips. For this podcast, Diagnostic Imaging spoke with Dr. David Ring, medical director of radiology services for Broward Health and president of North... More »
Radiology decision support tools are a bit like sunscreen – they can keep you from getting burned, but only if you bother to use them. That’s the conclusion of a new study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. More »
NEC Display Solutions of America announced this week the Food & Drug Administration 510(k) market clearance of the 30-inch MultiSync MD301C4 medical diagnostic display for the displaying and viewing of digital images for diagnosis. More »
(Press Release) The major enhancements of this release include the introduction of the 64-bit Ubuntu operating system, performance and speed enrichments, seamless interoperability with Roentgen Works advanced workflow tools such as ER Discordance, Urgent Findings and On Holds, and an improvement in... More »
KLAS researchers interviewed more than 500 provider facilities, finding that the regional vendor CoActive scored the highest at 89.4 out of 100. More »
Was it just business as usual for PACS vendors at this year’s European Congress of Radiology? That’s the assessment of one medical research firm that surveyed the PACS landscape at the congress. More »
