Experience Stories

Volume CT: The Key to a Superior Stroke Protocol

Toshiba

Over the last year, Kaleida Health Stroke Center at Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., a national leader in stroke care, revised its stroke protocol with 320 detector row CT to better inform and accelerate clinical decision-making and optimize patient care. The goal is to individualize stroke care by carefully selecting patients for treatment. Imaging is key, says Kenneth Snyder, MD, PhD, senior endovascular fellow.

Inside the Transition to Next-Generation Image Management

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

Radiology operates in a constantly and rapidly changing environment. Consequently, digital image management is an ongoing project. The common denominators at hospitals across the country include investment in new data-intense imaging modalities, PACS infusion throughout the enterprise, bursting archives and overburdened radiologists and technologists. 

Information Infrastructure

EMC

More than 1,700 healthcare organizations have installed the EMC Centeracontent-addressed storage infrastructure from EMC Corporation with goodreason.

PACS Across the Enterprise

EMC

The benefits of integrated RIS/PACS in radiology are absolutely clear: improved workflow, faster report turnaround time and enhanced patient care. Enterprise care, however, is equally important, and digital image management solutions such as the Siemens RIS/PACS and related solutions can deliver powerful benefits to clinicians across the enterprise.

Radiology's Best-kept Secret: RIS-driven PACS Workflow

EMC

Children’s Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham deployed PACS four years ago in crisis mode. Prior to PACS implementation, within a few months, the radiology department had lost three of its eight radiologists.

2007 Top Trends in Health Imaging & IT

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

Health imaging operations have become increasingly difficult inrecent years. 2007 in particular has been a milestone with thereimbursement reductions from the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) hittingimaging facilities and departments hard, according to the findings of our annual Top Trends survey inwhich 483 imaging and IT professionals offered their viewpoint.

ASP: The Answer for Images - Offsite, Secure, Now

Sponsored by GE Healthcare

With continued procedural growth and study volume, the aging of digital imaging exams and ever-increasing demand for complex 3D image sets in MR and CT, the proliferation of digital images has created a challenge shared by today’s radiology and IT directors, as well as CIOs addressing image management from an enterprise level.

Efficient Offsite Image Management for a Top Ten Medical Center

Sponsored by GE Healthcare

University of Washington (UW) Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., is a PACS pioneer, first deploying digital image management a decade ago. Today, the hospital and its radiology department continue to stand at the leading edge of technology.