A PACS Admin’s Life

One man takes on the world of PACS, RIS, dicom, and all that is digital imaging.

Lantheus joins Bracco for promotion of CardioGen-82

Lantheus Medical Imaging has entered an agreement to co-promote Bracco’s CardioGen-82, a myocardial perfusion PET imaging agent.

Block Imaging, Dicom Solutions to offer new products

Block Imaging International has formed a strategic partnership with Dicom Solutions and will now carry a new line of medical imaging digital solutions.

Intelerad adds Three Palm mammo capabilities to PACS

Intelerad Medical Systems has signed a new partnership agreement with Three Palm Software, a developer of software products for mammography.

Intelerad signs partnership with peerVue

Intelerad Medical Systems has signed a partnership agreement with peerVue, a provider of PACS-integrated, regulatory, quality and communications services.

Conquest Dicom Web Viewer

Ok so its been some time since I first posted about the web viewing system that I am making. Since then there where a lot of project under way and it sort of got filled under the pile for a while.I have recently had some time to re-visit the web ...

PACS World: Conquest Server Digging in the Bin

I found an interesting quirk of Conquest Dicom server today while doing some house keeping. I deleted some images in the image directory and decided to re-initialise the database. I suddely noticed that Conquest was shuffeling through the recycle bin and pulling out all the images I had just deleted! ...

Intelerad opens U.S. regional office in Colorado

Montreal-based Intelerad Medical Systems has opened a U.S. regional office in Westminster, Colo.

PACS Is Finally Here!

Time goes quickly when you are busy deploying a PACS and building a RIS! Much has been achieved, and much more is still in progress. Intelerad had two people onsite for our first rollout, this one at our main clinic. The PACS side of things went pretty smoothly. Our only real issue ...

Deploying PACS: Not as simple as it seems

We are well on our way to deploying IntelePACS. In under two months, our first site should be live, with our remaining sites following shortly afterwards. That is, if all the pieces come together. If they do not… either we will incur delays, or more likely, will incur a rough ...

Hardware (SAN) for PACS coming together

It has been quite the experience trying to pick just the right hardware for our forthcoming Intelerad PACS deployment. Complicating matters somewhat is that we are simultaneously deploying VMWare’s ESX solution for our non PACS servers, which requires hardware as well. Not to mention, our internal/external network needs to be modernized ...

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March 12th 2010
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Televox: Nifty Service, Below Par Implementation

In an effort to decrease our No Show rate, we have enlisted the assistance of Televox, to automatically place appointment confirmation calls. We had done reference checks (which I highly recommend you do!) and were told to watch out for snags during implementation. Otherwise, the feedback was stellar. Sure enough, ...
March 12th 2010
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Importance of Testing Upgrades

Up until a little while ago, we upgraded to new PACS releases rather late in the game. Of course, this may have meant we gave up a nifty new feature or two, but it also meant the upgrade we got was tried and tested, and worked as expected for us. ...
February 9th 2010
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Mammo viewer… progress is good

Intelerad really won us over years ago with their responsive communication. In sharp contrast to the other vendor under heavy consideration at the time (Agfa), we saw our questions answers and our concerns addressed in a reasonable timeframe time and again. I imagine a significant number of other customers would ...
January 31st 2010
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Disaster Planning… how much is enough? Part 4

One of our initiatives right now is to build a Disaster Recovery site. Unfortunately, those cost money. So the people signing the checks want to know what the project is going to provide before approving funds. This is where things get tricky. It is a DR site, it is going ...
January 29th 2010
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Disaster Planning… how much is enough? Part 3

We are fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on the day!) to have a RIS developed in house. This affords us some great flexibility, but it can also cause much stress. Without a vendor to fall back on, the buck stops with us when something goes south. Happily, that doesn’t happen often ...

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