The True Costs of Imaging System Downtime
Anyone who has worked in a hospital imaging department, or outpatient center that utilizes diagnostic imaging, knows the impact of a system outage. It doesn’t matter if the cause of …
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Building a Better Way
One of the more frustrating things about running my VNA was taking help desk calls. Not because I had to be on-call evenings and weekends (let’s be honest, no one loves …
Does a Hospital need a Radiology PACS?
Does a Hospital Need (Radiology) PACS? My first PACS project, many moons ago, was installing at Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Ft Gordon (Augusta), Georgia. At the time we were …
Is the VNA Dead?
These days you may hear someone comment that VNA’s are dead. Every time I heard these statements uttered with such certainty, I can’t help but think of Mark Twain’s amusing …
You didn’t Know the System was Down?
You know those learning moments in your career that really stick with you? I vividly remember one such incident; it involved more than a dozen hospitals being down, thanks to …
Does a Facility need an EMPI?
While participating in an ‘Ask Industry’ session at the most recent SiiM meeting, one of the audience members posed the question “Can I consolidate to enterprise imaging/PACS without an EMPI?”. …
That’s not a Pencil it is a Medical Device
Three years ago, I was visiting my primary care physician for an annual exam. My Dr, not fresh out of medical school and had been my family physician for a …