Dear PACS Insider,
It's not always easy to figure out how to achieve an optimal PACS implementation. However, a Dutch team may have uncovered some important clues.
After developing and validating a model for evaluating PACS performance, they concluded that when a radiology department aligns its PACS with the objectives of the hospital, this led to a more efficient and effective PACS experience. Click here to learn more.
To get reliable radiation dose data, it's best to use actual data extracted from RIS/PACS databases, Australian researchers have found. The commonly used self-reported patient dose surveys based on average-sized patients and typical scanner parameters were much less reliable, according to the team. Click here for all the details.
In other featured articles this month in your PACS Digital Community, Korean researchers recently determined that on-call radiology residents could effectively use a smartphone to receive after-hours advice from more experienced or specialized radiologists on challenging CT cases for the diagnosis of appendicitis.
Growth in PACS archives can be difficult to manage. But one health system recently found that it could utilize life-cycle management with rules-based image deletion policies to reduce their PACS archive growth to nearly zero. Click here to find out how they did it.
Healthcare informatics columnist Dr. Neelam Dugar is back with the second part of her series on PACS replacement. Learn about the importance of building relationships with your vendors by reading her article here.
If you have any tips or suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered in the PACS Digital Community, please feel free to drop me a line.
