An analysis by MRG shows that medical imaging centers are turning to PACS as means to increase volumes while streamlining operations. Moreover, PACS vendors have started focusing more and more of their attention on the smaller imaging centers. No real surprise with those results. It is unfortunate that increasing patient care ...

We have recently shortlisted our future PACS vendor to either Fuji’s Synapse or Intelerad’s IntelePACS. Here are some of our findings between these two products thus far: – Pre sales communication: Intelerad has been a delight to deal with. Questions have been answered quickly, and the general attitude we have been given ...

Microsoft to buy medical info search company | CNET News.com. The real news here in my eyes is that Microsoft has plans additional forays into the health care market. Only time will tell if that means eventually getting into RIS/PACS. I have long thought that if Microsoft were to enter these ...

In a previous post, I talked about the Conquest server slowdowns we have been experiencing on an increasing frequency. Previously, I thought these problems might be related to WAN network issues. Last week I made another discovery, this one I suspect being the culprit. Twice last week I was able to ...

Well it would sure be nice! Google seems to be gearing up for some healthcare related products and services. It will be very interesting to see what they have planned.

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. ...

Things are progressing slowly with our purchase of Agfa PACS Impax 6. This week a group of us are headed to Calgary to see Agfa 5.x and Promedicus RIS in action. It is too bad we could not arrange a visit to an Agfa 6 site, but hopefully we still ...