The phone rings in the PACS support center -- an irate user wonders why the workstation is so slow this morning. The PACS administrator has already failed, a SCAR University Productivity and Workflow audience was told Saturday morning.It's a question
The general agreement that quality assurance is essential to the production of diagnostic-quality digital images lays a foundation for inclusion of QA specialists on employee rosters."It is time to establish and implement functioning QA specialists in
Good afternoon, KMart shoppers, don't miss our spring hospital PACS special in the electronics department. Buy two, get one free.It hasn't quite come to that, but anyone interested in purchasing PACS on a shoestring budget would have appreciated Paul
Estrangements between PACS customers and PACS vendors may be awkward, but a number of filmless hospitals are finding it necessary to initiate divorce proceedings against their original PACS suppliers."We're beginning to see PACS divorces in the
The advent of the electronic medical record is redefining the radiologist's place in the traditional healthcare care chain by transforming traditional morphological descriptions into radiological consultations, according to researchers at the University
Until recently, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative was actually more of an integrating the radiology enterprise.Of the 18 existing integration profiles, 14 pertain to radiology, including the first 12, exposing the IHE's radiology
Digital mammography provides a springboard from which new imaging techniques are developed to address current limitations in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer."The presence of the increased quantitative quality of the data acquired in these
Changes in the way medicine is practiced are imminent, and the increasing costs of care are driving those changes. One way to meet the challenge head-on is to move to a fully automated healthcare system, starting with the electronic medical record,
The radiology residents were a dowdy and pathetic pair. Richie couldn't jump, a problem that kept him from playing on the radiology department basketball team. Amy had no rhythm and couldn't dance, and thus risked losing her true love, a Latin salsa
GREAT FALLS, VA -- Physicians, administrators, technologists, physicists, industry leaders, and information specialists come together once a year at the annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology to discuss the crucial
Although radiology has in many respects led the digital revolution in medicine, it lags behind other medical specialties in the use of personal digital assistants as a medical tool, presenters said at a SCAR session Thursday. Radiology-specific
