Top Trends
Top Trends in Health Imaging and IT
Over the last 20 years, medical imaging has moved from analog to digital, a transition that has presented new challenges in managing, viewing, and storing images. Today, the needs of the radiology practice have become even more complex and demanding.
Health Imaging and IT is constantly developing to meet those needs. Find out about top trends on the market. Stay on top of News.
Up to $1 billion in annual radiology cost savings and efficiencies uncovered across Canada
Up to $1 billion in annual radiology cost savings and efficiencies uncovered across Canada
The findings are outlined in the Diagnostic Imaging Benefits Evaluation Report, an independent study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway). The report highlights the various benefits Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) are providing to Canadians. It also uncovers the potential of electronic health record investments to help stimulate Canada’s challenging economy. Get the national perspective by reading the facts of the report. Learn more in the Diagnostic Imaging Benefits Evaluation Report Executive Summary
Rethinking RIS: Strategies to Streamline Operations
RIS-driven workflow provides tremendous benefits to healthcare organizations facilitating better patient care and better control over the business functions of the organization, including multi-facility scheduling, patient and image tracking, document management, outcome monitoring, and robust interface capabilities. Data analysis and reporting capabilities facilitate operational improvements and decision making. RIS-driven workflow delivers fast, secure access to information that can shorten the revenue cycle, reduce lost charges and denials, prevent underpayments, and optimize performance across the enterprise.
Learn from the experts about:
- Ability to search across multiple organizations when scheduling appointments, tracking patients, or generating reports to support the growth of your enterprise.
- Reducing medical errors through improved patient identification and access to relevant patient information from across the enterprise using a single patient identifier.
- Comprehensive outcome and statistical analysis.
- Enterprise-wide access to clinical information.
- Wide range of reports to assist with daily operations management.
- Embedded voice recognition for improved reporting capabilities.
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Integrating RIS/PACS for the Enterprise
| Experts from three leading healthcare facilities will share their experiences and expertise and will answer questions about integrating RIS/PACS throughout your enterprise. |  |
Learn from the experts about: - Benefits of an integrated RIS/PACS
- Improved Department and facility productivity from RIS-driven workflow
- Better solutions for disaster recovery and data redundancy
- Seamlessly sharing images and information with referring physicians
- How to integrate radiology images with the EMR
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ASP: A new Approach to Managing Image Overload
Gain first-hand knowledge from leaders at three healthcare organizations who use ASP (Application Service Provider) to store and manage radiology images. Watch this practical one-hour video webcast with live Q&A presented by clinical and IT thought-leaders who share their experience on transitioning to and benefiting from ASP in areas such as:
- Disaster recovery
- Simple, secure data storage in a scalable DICOM archive
- Instant access to images and data for radiologists, specialists and referring physicians
- Avoidance of hardware and software obsolescence
- Pay-per-procedure model that's cost-effective and frees capital budgets
- No data migration issues
- Fewer IT staff needed to manage data
- Unlimited data storage space
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Medical imaging is an important multi-billion dollar sector of the global healthcare market. Attempts to quantify the medical imaging market are complicated by its breadth and diversity. The Health Technology Exchange has created an Medical Imaging Tech-Knowledge Map.
To view it click here.
