The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance encourages healthcare providers to review picture archiving as well as communication systems related to vulnerabilities after the latest warnings received from federal healthcare experts. Approximately two weeks prior, the Department of Health and Human Services raised an alert that indicated that over 275 million medical-related imaging is now exposed […]
Tag: DICOM
Acronyms and Jargon in Imaging
The healthcare sector deals with several difficult terms which sometimes become difficult to be written in full. Writing every word in full requires more time and space, and the file sizes also get enhanced. Hence, abbreviations play a critical role in making record-keeping work precise and organized. If the healthcare industry had to write the […]
Radiation Monitoring Helped Reduce Dose Over 8 Years
X-ray is considered an essential tool to conduct medical examinations of the patients undergoing diagnostic radiology. Most diagnostic examinations are based on effective X-ray system, which is acknowledged crucial for enhancing human health. However, it also poses the highest levels of health risks caused by radiation exposure. Radiation safety of the patients is also breached […]
Is Your PACS HIPAA & HITECH Compliant
While the integration of technology into the healthcare industry came with a myriad of benefits including scalability, flexibility, easier communication, and cost efficiency, it also brought a plethora of security risks that compromise the safety of patients’ private information and data. Medical images now existing in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format, […]
Ultrasound Structured Reports
Unlike the old days when health practitioners used to infill ultrasound reports manually, currently, there is an emerging technology that records, encodes, stores and presents ultrasound data automatically in documents known as structured reports. While these systems has not been adopted and supported across the board all around the globe, it comes with a wide […]