My PET/CT Experience: Adding a New Modality to PACS

May 16, 2008 | The Daily Grind

It was a Tuesday afternoon when I received the call. The new PET/CT scanner was installed, and acceptance testing was about to begin, but my medical physicist informed me that PACS was not listed as a destination. The installation team had not configured the scanner to communicate with... Read More »

Grow Your Multisite Business With a Single Sign-on Solution

May 16, 2008 | Enterprise Trooper

Six months ago, Jesse Salen, vice president of sales and technology for Online Radiology Medical Group (ORMG), Riverside, Calif, found himself in a situation familiar to many radiology practices: upgrade ORMG’s RIS/PACS platform or face dissolution. ORMG had been in operation for nearly a decade, but the... Read More »

Enterprise PACS: A Good Thing for Radiology?

March 15, 2008 | Feature

Considerable benefits accrue to the institution when approaching PACS outside the radiology box.

PACS took 20 years to mature as a technology in radiology, and it is a necessity today for cost-effective, productive imaging operations. In the early years of development, PACS was largely a radiology-centered endeavor with... Read More »

Get on Board With Virtualized Servers

March 15, 2008 | Radinformatics

As any PACS administrator can attest, the cost of advanced imaging technology is higher than the price of a new CT or PET scanner. As the number of DICOM images attained per scan increases exponentially, software and hardware alike have a hard time keeping up with the load; no... Read More »

Better Than Aspirin: Modality Testing and Troubleshooting

February 16, 2008 | Destination Digital

Why does it typically take several days to get a new modality up and running, from a connectivity perspective?

Installing a new modality and upgrading existing modalities are recurring events. Some of these installations take just a few hours, but others could take days, or even longer.... Read More »

When Disaster Means No Recovery

January 15, 2008 | Radinformatics

Does turning to a PACS vendor for disaster archiving add certainty and ease to the recovery process when a mishap occurs and images must be retrieved or a PACS database must be reestablished? One New York hospital’s radiology department thought so. The PACS administrator confirms that events have... Read More »

IT as Gatekeeper: Who’s on PACS?

October 15, 2007 | Radinformatics

Allowing physicians, whether they are referrers or outside specialists, access to an outpatient radiology practice’s PACS is a subject that is being discussed with increasing frequency among CIOs.

Craig Roy is chief information officer and head of IT (information technology) for Radiological Associates of Sacramento (RAS),... Read More »

Quick Tips to Maximize your PACS Site Visit

July 15, 2007 | Legislative Report

Selecting a PACS vendor is a long process requiring a significant amount of due diligence. Unfortunately, after the research, vendor demonstrations, and analysis of lengthy RFP responses, fatigue often sets in. As a result, one of the concluding, valuable steps—the PACS site visit—is often skipped or minimized.... Read More »