Focus On Efficiency And Patient Care With Urgent Care PACS

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:12 Written by admin Tuesday, 11 May 2010 08:19

In an urgent care setting, urgent care digital x-ray can offer physicians and patients the information they need for speedy and accurate diagnoses.

Work More Efficiently With Chiropractic PACS

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:09 Written by admin Monday, 15 March 2010 09:29

After your Chiropractic office has made the switch to digital medical imaging with the use of a Chiropractic CR or Chiropractic DR unit, you will also want to be able to enhance, send and receive as well as store the digital images, and for this purpose PACS was invented. A Picture Archiving and Communication System enables your medical office to spend less time on repetitive and routine tasks, freeing you up to see more patients and earn a greater return on your investment of time.

Chiropractic digital x-ray itself saves a great deal of time and expense in several areas. No longer will you need costly development chemicals and supplies needed for film x-rays. An image is taken via a Chiropractic X-ray digital system, and immediately it goes to a workstation or viewer on a personal computer, where you can enhance the image by using crop, rotation, zoom, or change the brightness or contrast, and determine that you have a suitable shot right away, making it more convenient for the patient as well as offering better patient care, which was not the case with time-consuming film x-rays.

Once the digital medical image has been taken, a Chiropractic PACS system also speeds up the storage and transmission of those images. Archiving of patient medical images was once a laborious task that required personnel for file maintenance, as well as cost for storage space. Now archiving digital images takes a matter of seconds. Digital medical images may be immediately stored to CD or DVD at the workstation, and those dicom-format images may also be stored in both on- and off-site databases. This makes it possible to have secure and safe patient records should you need it in the event of a disaster recovery situation, and with a personal computer you can set your preferences so that worklists and the appropriate patient files are pre-fetched and ready to go without you having to spend time on it. Distribution of digital medical images is done with the click of a computer mouse, when dicom images can be sent via local or wide area networks, and even via SSL or VPN to outside consultants. The simple task of sending patient images to other physicians used to take a long time and cost a lot when they had to be packaged and shipped by postal mail, but that is all a thing of the past with the Internet and digital imaging.

There are a variety of Chiropractic PACS systems available at affordable prices that will help your medical office work more efficiently.

Choosing Radiology Monitors

Last Updated on Friday, 19 November 2010 12:06 Written by admin Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:39

Unlike viewing most images online, medical images require exceptionally high-resolution monitors. As the health care imaging industry becomes increasingly digitized, images can be displayed almost anywhere in a facility or even over the World Wide Web.

One of the primary challenges is consistency, particularly when it comes to grayscale images such as x-rays. Typical computer monitors, even high-end ones, lack complete consistency when it comes to their grayscale characteristics. This variation may even occur between monitors of the same model.

The DICOM Part 14 imaging protocol is rapidly becoming the standard of grayscale adjustment among the different monitors that are being used throughout the industry; any monitor that is chosen should be compliant with this standard.

Area and Aspect Ratio

It goes without saying that when it comes to monitors, bigger is in fact better