White Papers

A critical component of a PACS system is its archive and image management system. Increasingly, this “back-bone” is shared by multiple departments, and able to manage not only pure image, DICOM based data, but also related information and serve the complete enterprise. The ultimate goal is to provide a vendor neutral archive (VNA) as it eliminates multiple migrations and can be a true core of a regional solution implementing the appropriate open standards such as DICOM, HL7, IHE and XDS as well as PIX/PDQ. This checklist can be used for a RFP, RFQ or RFI of the archiving and storage management solution of a radiology or cardiology PACS or enterprise imaging solution and will allow a user to determine whether or not a potential archive solution is a true VNA.

This White Paper about Vendor Neutral Archive was sponsored by TeraMedica Healthcare Technology. Please visit their site for further information on their Vendor Neutral Archive Solution: http://www.teramedica.info

When faced with planning and implementing an enterprise-wide emergency response strategy, many organizations address the problem by implementing several independent solutions.

While this approach can be reasonably effective it can also result in disjointed communications and disparate systems deployment that can prove problematic from a complete emergency management perspective.

Making the decision to replace pagers with smartphones is certainly a weighty consideration. Lives are at stake. The technology has to ensure speedy delivery of the message. Every time. No exceptions. Following are important items to evaluate as you determine the right path for your organization.

This is the second annual report for the Cancer Reform Strategy. This report focuses on achieving local implementation.

The Cancer Commissioning Guidance highlights aspects of World Class Commissioning Assurance Framework including organisational competencies for cancer commissioning. It also sets out key issues and questions that commissioners/network teams should consider when assessing health needs; reviewing services; developing contract service specifications; and monitoring performance.