Relying on your PACS backup?
If your PACS failed tonight, could you still perform surgery in the morning? Could your radiologists still report imaging studies? Would your hospital operations slow to a crawl?
EHR PACS integration matters
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Since the accelerated acceptance of electronic health records (EHR), brought on by the adoption of the Affordable Care Act, patient records have existed separate and apart from their related medical images. There is no doubt that physicians unanimously believe that an integrated view of your medical image together with the textual description of your symptoms, test results and diagnosis would be more valuable than either of them separately. So, why do they remain detached? Why does EHR PACS integration matter?
EHR Incentive Programs - Cleaning Up the Mess
Earlier this month, the Obama Administration disclosed that it is working on "an important transition" for Electronic Health Record incentive program. They claim to be working with physicians to make improvements in technology to best support clinicians and their patients. Updates are promised in the coming months.
Watch our RSNA '15 Horos Users WEB-Meeting
Missed Purview at RSNA? Watch it here!
As some of you know, we gave a presentation at RSNA '15 at the Chicago Apple Store. There we met with the Horos community presented them with the progress of the open-source DICOM viewer. Users shared what was most important to them, what they loved, features they desired, and development effort they would like to contribute. Unfortunately, not everyone could make it to RSNA or our follow-up web-meeting.
