At one of our sites, the Conquest PACS system has days where it will just slow to a crawl. Specifically, any images from the various ultrasound modalities will suddenly trickle to the server. Pulling images from PACS is fine, it is just that the images are not there to pull ...

Lately we have noticed an increasing number of instances where a clinic’s Conquest server will slow down dramatically. The tech’s on site notice their images not arriving from the modalities in an efficient manner. When we look at it, nothing appears wrong, Conquest is still processing requests, but just slowly. ...

One of our clinics just got a 3D probe for a Philips HD11 ultrasound machine. The Philips tech who came to set it up and train was unable to get 3D images sent to our PACS. Upon first glance, I noticed the cases were staying the Philips dicom queue. The ...

One of the most important ways a company communicates with their customers is via the web and email. Yet, such an critical function is entirely dependent on keeping the domain name registered, and all too often, companies let it expire and are confronted with headaches and upset customers and partners. As ...

Think you have all your ducks in a row in regards to your disaster recovery plans? You might want to check those ducky’s again! Claus Mikkelsen talks about a bank that thought all was well during a power outage. Trouble is, they had diesel generators on the roof, supplied by diesel fuel ...