St. Mark’s Medical Center in LaGrange, Texas, has selected McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging PACS to replace its legacy system.
John D. Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, seems to be taking a bit of flak for a recent assertion dubbing DICOM a "non-standard standard."
Encompass Medical Group in Kansas City, Mo., has selected Carestream Vue PACS to support imaging at its eight locations.
Cancer Radiation & Specialty Clinics of El Paso, Texas, has installed eRad’s web-based RIS, PACS and teleradiology software platform.
Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE), according to Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting who presented during a webinar on Jan. 26 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and GNAX Health.
The benefits to productivity and efficiency provided by PACS are widely publicized, but a PACS implementation isn’t without its challenges. In the February issue of Academic Radiology, radiologists and PACS managers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland offered their experiences implementing PACS to illustrate potential gains and problem areas.
Informatics innovations can boost productivity or market share; however, justifying the development and implementation of such systems can be challenging. An article in the February issue of Academic Radiology offered a wish list and a series of strategies for investing in specific PACS innovations.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has added Agfa HealthCare’s Impax Data Center and also intends to upgrade to Impax PACS version 6.5 as the hospital expands its relationship with the Mortsel, Belgium-based healthcare IT vendor.
GE Healthcare IT has appointed Michael Jackman, MBA, to the role of vice president and general manager of its specialty solutions business.
Eliot L. Siegel, MD, professor and vice chair of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, will deliver the 2012 Dwyer Lecture at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting on June 8 in Orlando, Fla.
The global PACS market, valued at $2.8 billion in 2010, is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 percent to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to a MarketResearch.com report titled “Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) – Global Opportunity Assessment, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2017.”
The widespread adoption of PACS has led to a number of improvements in patient care–increased productivity, elimination of film, increased image accessibility–but along with those benefits, PACS adoption has put a wedge in communication between radiologists and referring physicians, according to a study published in the January issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model developed by Dale L. Goodhue, PhD, is a valid tool to predict the utilization and perceived net benefits of a PACS upgrade, according to a case study published in the December issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging. The researchers, including Luigi Lepanto, MD, of the University of Montreal, and colleagues also found that utilization alone was not predictive of net benefits.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., has placed an order to upgrade its existing PACS to the latest version of Carestream’s Vue PACS.
Mach 7 Technologies debuted the Keystone Study Split Utility, a CT and MRI segmenting software, which can be used to reduce the time required to split multiregion CT and MR scans into anatomic regions that match the original orders from the RIS and reducing the time required for the newly split studies to be sent to the PACS, at 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.
The Cleveland Clinic has installed Agfa HealthCare’s Impax 6.5, the latest version of the software, as the network’s PACS.
PACS replacements, which had slowed overall, are expected to ramp up significantly riding a wave of replacements starting in the largest hospitals and eventually sweeping over smaller facilities. Nearly one in six hospitals and health systems with over 1,000 beds reported they have plans to replace their PACS, according to a recent report from market researcher KLAS.
Written by Evan Godt
A growing number of hospitals are transitioning to an enterprise-wide, centralized archive that houses both radiology and non-radiology imaging datasets.
PACSGear (Booth 8908), the healthcare communications technology company based in Pleasanton, Calif., is introducing the PACSGear Enterprise Imaging Platform at the 97th Annual Meeting & Scientific Assembly of the RSNA, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2, in Chicago.
Agfa HealthCare (Booth 8350) is introducing an expanded portfolio of cloud and managed service options at the 97th Annual Meeting & Scientific Assembly of the RSNA, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 in Chicago.
