Cloud-based Image-sharing Solution Gives On-demand Access to Images

November 25, 2011 | NONE

Streamlining interaction between imaging departments and referring clinicians not only saves time, lives, and duplicate studies, but can also improve productivity. One of the most powerful new approaches to eliminating the physical and networking barriers to image sharing is the use of cloud computing.

At the 2011 annual... Read More »

Rex Healthcare: Taking the Logical Next Step in Image Exchange

November 25, 2011 | NONE

As someone who has found himself—more than once—in a mad dash to catch the day’s last FedEx® pickup so that an out-of-town physician could have a patient’s images stat, Tom Hasley sees the wisdom of a cloud-based solution to image delivery. Hasley is systems support... Read More »

RSNA Image Share Network Enrolls First Patients

November 25, 2011 | NONE

Patients are at the center of control in an ongoing effort by the RSNA to standardize the way that medical images are shared on the Internet. In August 2011, The RSNA Image Share Network started enrolling its first patients to have images and reports stored electronically, through an online network... Read More »

XDS-I: Blueprint for Image Exchange

February 16, 2011 | NONE

In 2005, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) published the Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) integration profile, extending the capabilities of XDS by incorporating DICOM instances and providing a blueprint for image exchange among disparate institutions. Nonetheless, the will remained weak through the latter half of the decade when it... Read More »

CDs: Migration Is Worth the Effort

February 16, 2011 | NONE

However daunting the concept might appear, migration to image sharing via Web portal or the cloud is seemingly well worth the effort, given the disadvantages of other options, such as paper printouts, film, and CDs. David S. Mendelson, MD, is chief of clinical informatics and director of radiology information... Read More »

Image Sharing:The Cloud, the Roadmap, and the Business Models

February 16, 2011 | Feature

Image sharing yields an impressive host of benefits. Patient care improves with timely physician access to images, and there are much-needed efficiency gains when examinations repeated due to the inability to access prior images are eliminated. While specifications for image exchange have surfaced in the past decade, few projects... Read More »