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The Experience My five-year-old daughter broke her wrist last week — on the monkey bars, of course. The break was right on the growth plate, so there was concern about the need for surgery. Yesterday we went to see the orthopedist to get a cast and an X-ray. What an adventure! Knowing that my daughter […]
Value is the major concern for community hospital providers who are evaluating PACS replacements, according to new KLAS study, Community and Ambulatory PACS 2012: Questions of Value. In the community hospital market, a vendor’s ability to balance price and continued functionality development is strongly tied to customers’ overall satisfaction. The value leaders, according to KLAS, […]
RIS decisions are being pulled in three different directions depending on a facility’s priorities, according to a recent KLAS report, RIS in the Middle: The Integration Tug of War. Those directions include: an integrated RIS/EMR strategy where data is housed on a common clinical platform; an integrated RIS/PACS for the imaging department; a feature-rich standalone RIS solution capable of being implemented and interfaced within the existing environment
