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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

Everything Rad

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. Imagine that your radiology department has no access to your PACS, your RIS, or even email. Our radiology department was one of the fortunate ones, we were without PACS “only” six days. No PACS/RIS.

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The PACSman Pontificates: Dog tired after HIMSS 2024

AuntMinnie

That pretty much summarizes how I felt after a full day walking the exhibit hall trying to assess the PACS and AI market at what is by all accounts an IT show. That said, each year it seems that fewer and fewer PACS vendors choose to display at HIMSS. “This is the story of two men who run. not to run.

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The Radiologist Shortage is Here

Ben White

If the shortage gets worse, then turnaround times will continue to lengthen (and patients suffer) and hospitals will struggle to get coverage (and patients suffer). The invention of PACS was a singular event that changed the field of radiology. Some hospitals have been hard-pressed to find coverage.

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How I Use the Contour Shuttle for Radiology

Ben White

This discussion applies broadly, but we’ll be doing so through the example of my current left-hand device: The Contour Shuttle Pro V2 , a weird little ambidextrous off-hand device mostly used by video editors: The principles of optimizing your radiology workflow and customizing tools for manipulating PACS are nonspecific.

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CHRISTUS Health Hits Texas Roads

Imaging Technology

Luckily, when they happen in East Texas, fast access to medical care is possible at many sporting events thanks to CHRISTUS Health ’s Mobile Athletic Training Room (MATR) — parked just steps away from the playing field. The MATRs are operated by the athletic trainers at CHRISTUS Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute.

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Research from Philips and Vanderbilt Shows Decarbonizing Healthcare and Reducing Costs Can Go Hand in Hand

Imaging Technology

milla1cf Thu, 12/07/2023 - 14:36 December 7, 2023 — Royal Philips , a global leader in health technology, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), home to the top-ranked adult and pediatric hospitals in the Southeastern U.S., 26-30 in Chicago, IL.

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Rad Perspectives: Reflecting on 2019 Healthcare AI Predictions

Aidoc

In any event, these products seem to be of declining relevance in 2023– let’s hope it stays that way. Seemingly overnight, entire hospital systems crumbled under the load and had to pivot to a crisis stance which persisted for the next 1-2 years. Staffing shortages were more apparent than ever, and fiscal frailty never more trenchant.