PACSweb Orthopedics - News Updates

Radiologists can say goodbye to spatial noise on liquid crystal displays with a new technology that performs real-time noise correction on images sent to high-resolution medical monitors....

Network communication barriers hinder PACS implementation in cardiology

The goal of seamless enterprise-wide image access and distribution faces a major obstacle: Health Level 7 message incompatibility continues to constitute a technical barrier to broader PACS adoption in cardiology and orthopedics. ...

Temple University radiology PACS attempts to reel in cardiology

Hospital cardiology departments tend to swim in their own PACS waters. At Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, the radiology department is attempting to lure cardiology to join the radiology PACS....

Long hours, not PACS, take the blame for radiologist eye strain

Eye strain in radiologists has less to do with the switch to soft-copy reading than with the long work days they log with few breaks, according to researchers at the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center. ...

Cardiology IT adoption rates stall

The percentage of hospitals using cardiology software applications not only didn't increase last year, it dropped from 29% in 2003 to 26% in 2004, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Annual Report of the US Hospital IT Market....

Storage issues may require editing at the start

A principal question in cardiac digital imaging is not so much how to store the enormous amounts of data generated by cardiology studies, but which portion of the data to store....

Managing cardiac imaging challenges faint of heart

Digital cardiac imaging may relieve many clinical issues, but it also can elevate the blood pressure of IT managers charged with maintaining the various cardiac systems. ...

Radiology and cardiology meet at digital divide

The growth of digital cardiac imaging offers a good opportunity to rethink digital imaging archive strategies by adding cardiology imaging to the radiology PACS archive....

Hospital network infrastructures oversee the overlooked

Network infrastructures are among the first hospital resources to feel the load when healthcare enterprises incorporate digital cardiac imaging. ...

IT backbone feels weight of cardiac CT imaging

The growth of cardiac imaging represents perhaps the heaviest impact of CT on diagnostic imaging. Hospital information technology infrastructures are the first to feel the weight....

Hospitals move slowly to implement EMR

The use of electronic records in healthcare lags far behind the computerization of information in other sectors of the economy, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Pacific Basin boasts novel tele-echocardiography link

Routine store-and-forward systems like the telecardiology link between Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu and the image acquisition center at the U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) on the island of Guam face inherent delays, restricting management of acute medical conditions....

DICOM influence spreads beyond imaging to medical records

Researchers in China have developed a Web-based system to interactively display DICOM-based electronic medical records for intranet and Internet collaborative medical applications. Geared toward improving the efficiency of medical record integration, the setup enables physicians and other users to access and navigate the electronic patient record (EPR) easily from anywhere. ...

IHE moves beyond integrating the radiology enterprise

Until recently, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative was actually more of an integrating the radiology enterprise. ...

IT backbone feels impact of cardiac CT imaging

The growth of cardiac imaging may represent multislice CT's greatest impact on diagnostic imaging. Hospital information technology infrastructures are feeling the burden....

Hospital holds off on integrating cardiac PACS

As cardiac systems develop into full-blown information management and digital imaging networks, hospitals face the decision of whether and how to integrate cardiac PACS with the enterprise/radiology PACS....