Departments employing high-quality laser imagers must assess their specific needs before making choices of a centralized or de-centralized configuration and the ability for "true size" printing.

Implementing speech recognition can offer healthcare facilities a number of benefits including decreasing report turnaround time, cutting down on duplicative workflow steps, and reducing costs.

Cardiology PACS are improving workflow, speeding up report turnaround time and allowing more informed decisions at the point of care.

Documentation of policies and procedures, both technical and procedural, is critical for the proper operation and management of a PACS. Unfortunately, because the systems are so new in many healthcare facilities, it is necessary to design PACS policies and procedures from scratch - or worse, on an as-you-go basis.

Color displays are now coming out of the back office and becoming highly useful tools in viewing diagnostic and even therapeutic images.

Six facilities show how they've cased high-speed multislice CT scanners into their busy radiology and cardiology practices.

Warning: Inattention to ergonomic principles in reading room design could prove hazardous to your healthand your career. Really.

Web-based PACS are helping facilities large and small greatly increase their referring physician user base, creating speedier in-house operations.