Evan Godt, CMIO
“Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE)
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Approximately half of French hospitals still use film for their imaging exams. The Ministry of Health, through its state agency, has enlisted the Orange-GE Healthcare consortium to deliver digital cloud-based PACS to France’s most populous region, the Ile de France.
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John Andrews, Healthcare IT News
“With PACS and other diagnostic imaging files quickly diminishing healthcare data storage capacities, providers are scrambling to find a much larger repository to handle their needs. More and more, that means gravitating toward the cloud, IT vendors say.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“At heart, Watson is an electronic health record reader. Once that technology is correctly combined with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology, diagnosis times for patients could be shortened tremendously, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, a radiology professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine.
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eGovmonitor
“For € 10 million, Estonia implemented a national electronic health record (EHR) in 2009 at a cost equivalent to € 7.50 per citizen. Speaking at eHealth Week 2011 on 11 May 2011 in his capacity as EHR project manager and CEO of the Estonian eHealth Foundation, Madis Tiik described the short path to a fully integrated EHR network currently used by 47 % of the country’s residents.
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Healthcare IT News
“A new KLAS report finds that providers are looking for vendors that offer smooth integration between a radiology information system (RIS) and a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). To achieve that integration, some providers are willing to sacrifice functionality.
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Winblad I et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(2)
Objective:
Considerable expectations have been placed on information and communication technology (ICT) in improving the processes and quality of healthcare. Our purpose was to find out which element is found positive in healthcare ICT implementation.
Materials and Methods:
An online questionnaire on e-Health implementation submitted to all Finnish public health service providers and a sample from the private sector included an open question about which the electronic working methods, systems, or applications have most positively influenced the fluency or quality of service processes.
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eHealthServer.eu
“GE HealthcareGE Healthcare unveiled a new designed “In India, for India” low cost IT solution – GE Centricity PACS Reach, a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) aimed at affordably digitizing India’s 15,000-plus small diagnostic centres and hospitals, a market that’s traditionally lower in clinical image volume but is growing at a tremendous pace in India’s Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
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Peter Schmidt, DrChrono.com
“There’s a specialty in medicine where health IT has already revolutionized their practice. In this specialty, successful, profitable software companies sell generally appreciated products that increase practice revenue and shorten their workdays. What’s the specialty? Radiology.
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TAP Blog
“As policymakers consider new approaches to providing quality health care at a lower cost, information technology is expected to play a larger role. Some consider the role of new technologies in raising costs, others, the role of information management technology in reducing costs. Others track how health technology policies relate to broader issues such as privacy or network neutrality.
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Gartner
“The Ministry launched an initiative in 2008 to improve the understanding of how improvements in healthcare can be supported by technology and how these technologies are connected to political goals. This was accomplished by using a new benefit model in which benefits of continued implementation of technologies are calculated based on current medical and technology status.
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Fernandez-Bayó J. European Journal of Radiology, 2010
PACS has been widely adopted as an image storage solution that perfectly fits the radiology department workflow and that can be easily extended to other hospital departments. Integrations with other hospital systems, like the Radiology Information System, the Hospital Information System and the Electronic Patient Record are fully achieved but still challenging aims. PACS also creates the perfect environment for teleradiology and teleworking setups. One step further is the regional PACS concept where different hospitals or health care enterprises share the images in an integrated Electronic Patient Record.
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Bellon E et al, European Journal of Radiology, 2010
Radiological Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have only relatively recently become abundant. Many hospitals have made the transition to PACS about a decade ago. During that decade requirements and available technology have changed considerably. In this paper we look at factors that influence the design of tomorrow’s systems, especially those in larger multidisciplinary hospitals. We discuss their impact on PACS architecture (a technological perspective) as well as their impact on radiology (a management perspective).
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Lisa Fratt, CMIO
“As healthcare leaps, or is pushed, toward next-generation EMRs/EHRs, imaging informatics and enterprise hospital IT need to work together, learn from each other and leverage the expertise of other industries, said Paul Chang, MD, vice chairman of radiology informatics at University of Chicago Medical Center during the SIIM 2010 Dwyer Lecture.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As the push to digitize medical imaging at hospitals and other medical facilities becomes more prevalent, many large healthcare IT vendors will see their dominant market share dwindle, predicts Jamie Coffin, VP of Dell’s healthcare and life sciences division.
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eHealthServer
“GE Healthcare is bringing to market a global vision of eHealth that encompasses solutions and services enabling the exchange, sharing, workflow and distribution of images and clinical information across multiple hospitals, regions or nations. The goal is to connect patients, physicians, care providers, payers, GP offices, pharmacies, laboratories and others.
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“It started with a simple goal: to send radiology images to healthcare facilities throughout Montana in a manner that was cheaper and more efficient than using FedEx to mail CDs overnight. About 30 healthcare organizations in Montana joined the grassroots organization called the Image Movement of Montana.
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Stephen Strauss, CBC News
“I recently flew into Charleston, S.C., to see how the Medical University of South Carolina was handling its electronic health record systems. I went Deep South because MUSC has had the Oacis medical record system in place since 1993 — it was the first hospital system in the world to buy one.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Continuum Health Partners in New York City will replace multiple medical imaging systems with a single integrated imaging solution aimed at streamlining the workflow and improving the productivity of more than 10,000 physicians.
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“The digital exchange of health information (often called electronic health records or EHRs) is essential to transforming Canada’s health-care system. Unfortunately, it appears that governments may be quietly re-examining their commitment to creating EHRs as they look for ways to reduce public spending in the wake of large, recession-fuelled deficits. Our advice is that we must continue to move forward.
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