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

WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- URAC announced today it will be convening a research and focus group to explore new quality benchmarks for health information technology (HIT), including the possibility of developing standards addressing electronic

PORTLAND, Ore., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry leaders gathered last week to rally around technological advancements in healthcare that will lead to a fully connected healthcare system as early as 2010. More than 135 decision makers attended the 2004

NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid JCAHO's new proposal to require hospitals to develop an implementation plan for bar code technology, IIR and HCEC's Hospital Pharmacy and Supply Chain Summit provides a timely solution for hospitals seeking

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ramp Corporation today announced that it has entered into a letter of intent to purchase Berdy Medical Systems, Inc., the publisher of the SmartClinic point-of-care software, which has become an

WESTPORT, Conn., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QuickCompliance, Inc. today announced that healthcare experts from Keane, Inc. will present on April 27, 2004 at its "Ask-the-Experts" HIPAA security web seminar series. Rosemary Abell,

PORTLAND, Ore, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Kryptiq Corp. announced today that the company is hosting the first annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit on April 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. The conference will provide a viable, scalable roadmap for overcoming

PORTLAND, Ore., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Kryptiq Corp. announced today that the company is hosting the first annual Healthcare Connectivity Summit on April 29 and 30 in Portland, Ore. The conference will provide a viable, scalable roadmap for

LOS ANGELES, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- UniversityOfHealthCare, a leading e-learning solutions provider, reported that it had an extremely successful debut at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando.At the

A vendor-neutral method for integrating case input from any PACS workstation into a teaching file system was presented at the RSNA conference."This method requires no vendor cooperation, effort, or software modification," said Dr. David Avrin, of the