In the past, PACS systems were only within the budgets of the largest hospitals. However, since the prices of electronic technology has decreased in recent years, this has had a positive impact on the cost of medical technology, including all of the equipment used in digital imaging systems. Cardiology and orthopedic centers that are smaller in scale will discover that there are several options in affordable PACS suited to their specific area of specialization. These orthopedic and cardiology pacs are designed to improve the workflow of your offices by giving you the options in digital imaging that you need on the job, thereby enabling your medical facilities’ productivity to increase and thus improve your bottom line.
For cardiology and orthopedic PACS systems, you will want to consider the ImageGrid as well as the iMed-Stor. The ImageGrid is available as a Lite version or with a full complement of useful features, so that you can select the one that will best meet your medical office’s needs, while the iMed-Stor is noted for its routing capabilities. A PACS system is an appliance that combines hardware with software tailored to the needs of medical offices in terms of enabling the routing of digital medical images, as well as storage of those images.
Even smaller medical facilities need a means for sending, receiving and routing digital images through networks. You may utilize a local area network, a wide area network, a virtual private network or some combination of all three. You need a PACS system that can route those images to multiple users simultaneously and quickly, and this is exactly what a PACS system is designed to do for you.
Storing digital medical images is of vital importance to the care of your patients, and HIPPA rules mean that even smaller medical offices must comply. A PACS system will help you to stay in compliance with HIPPA, and it makes it even easier for you because you can optimize your system to automatically save studies for you, as well as send them to off-site storage servers, thereby taking care of your emergency disaster recovery should it be needed.
A PACS system will read DICOM medical imaging format. There are also RIS systems that will translate text data into DICOM format, so that a complete medical record with text and images can be saved to CD, DVD, or server for storage.
A medical imaging distributor can offer more advice about affordable PACS suited to cardiology and orthopedic units.
Wayne Hemrick writes about–radiology PACS