Siemens’ Soarian key to healthcare IT accolade and offers efficiency potential to UK The implementation of an electronic patient record system based on Soarian® Clinicals and Soarian® Health Archive from Siemens Healthcare has been cited as a key reason for the first hospital in Europe to be ho...

Kathy Andriole from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston kicked off the sessions at the annual SIIM conference in Washington DC with listing her views on top ten Imaging Informatics trends for this year of which the number one is radiation dose. Although, maybe not the number one in my opin...

(Toronto, Ontario, Canada – April 6, 2011) Guam Radiology Consultants (GRC) is the only full-service interventional outpatient radiology center on the island of Guam and their road to becoming fully paperless was an arduous one. Their first attempt with another vendor was unsuccessful and their n...

Ambivu, a leading company providing products to enhance the quality of medical images, has recently released a new cost-effective medical imaging workstation streamlined for fast image reporting, review and diagnosis. The new Ambivu 3D Workstation displays studies from any modality with the widest r...

E-learning is an integral component of any healthcarehealthcare educational program.  Aiming to promote medical imaging & IT education through e-learning platform, Health Imaging Hub has developed a place for those who want to learn the technology at their own pace.  Now you do not nee...

E-Health Insider Live 2010 will host the UK PACS and Teleradiography Group meeting for this year, to provide delegates with an insight into next generation PACS (picture archiving and communications systems).The group is a special interest group of the Royal College of Radiologists and includes r...

New Zealand's Orion Health has announced the release of the latest version of its integration engine, Rhapsody 4.Orion said that the idea of latest version of Rhapsody is to provide greater support for the latest industry trends, technologies and standards, including secure web services, already ad...

IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed i...

This introduction to HL7 discusses the characteristics of the HL7 (Health Level 7) communication standard as is used to exchange information between clinical information systems. It explains the protocol using trigger events, the messaging layout in segments and also shows a sample message to be int...

At SIIM 2010, Herman Oosterwijk discussed issues that deal specifically with PACS connectivity. He outlined the following  problems: Network Issues: A well defined and managed network infrastructure is essential. Proper IP addressing and port number assignment has to be done. Duplicate IP ad...