The team at OGH Imaging LLC, Grand Coteau, La, faces a daunting task every day: living up to the expectations of both OGH’s hospital and physician investors while managing approximately 70 patient studies a day across eight modalities (MRI, 16-slice CT, ultrasound, DR, digital mammography, fluoroscopy, bone densitometry, and calcium scoring).

Preparation is the difference between unexpected PACS downtime and a nightmare, Michael D. Toland told his audience in Seattle on May 17 at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. Toland, who is PACS administrative team manager for the University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, presented PACS Worst Case

PACS data migration is so important that every PACS acquisition should include a plan for outbound migration at the end of that system’s life, according to Frederick M. Behlen, PhD. Behlen is an officer, director, and shareholder of LAITEK Inc, also known as Migratek™ Data Migration Services, Homewood, Ill. He serves as cochair of the DICOM–HL7

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices are small transponders that allow tracking and data transmission using radio waves. Typically, they are used to track shipments for inventory control, but they also guard library books and have thousands of other uses. They can even be inserted subcutaneously in humans.

Voice recognition as a productivity- enhancing technology was a topic of discussion more than a year ago at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. One speaker, a radiology administrator, described his hospital’s adoption of voice recognition as a boon to getting work done more rapidly. He told those in attendance at

When it comes to the interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies, the bywords are speed and efficiency. There are, however, multiple routes to those ends, as witnessed by the different approaches of three veteran CCTA practitioners. All three radiologists interviewed by Radiology Business Journal use, to a greater or lesser extent,

At Palm Beach Radiology Institute, operated by Palm Beach Radiology and Imaging Associates (PBRIA), there is no film, there never has been film, and no one expects ever to see film. When the outpatient imaging center opened a year ago, it was already an all-digital environment, built from the ground up to accommodate a digital infrastructure and a

It’s easy to let quality assurance (QA) slip into a lip-service category, but that is something that a nighttime stat-reading teleradiology service can’t afford to do—particularly if it is an industry leader like NightHawk Radiology Services. Dionne Watts, quality-assurance supervisor, says “QA for teleradiology is important because the client