Burnout refers to a work-related stress syndrome that stems from chronic exposure to job stress. Experiencing burnout leaves someone feeling physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. While anyone can experience burnout, healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses are especially prone to it. The Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post conducted a poll between February […]
MIMPS and PACS: A Quick Overview on Recent Changes from the FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended eight classification regulations to reflect recent regulatory changes. Three of those are radiology-specific: 2010: Medical Image Storage Device 2020: Medical Image Communication Device 2050: Picture Archiving and Communications System In addition to these changes, the FDA amended a regulation to change the title of the classification from […]
Radiology Business Intelligence: A Vital Element for Growth-Minded Practices
Any practice that’s focused on continuous growth can benefit from business intelligence. Business intelligence tools break down key insights from mass amounts of data that practices generate. The insight from BI tools play a big role in improving practice operations and patient outcomes. Before jumping into how BI achieves that, let’s start at the very […]
Understanding the importance of the RIS in radiology
The purpose of the RIS: The RIS or radiology information system was developed to eliminate the inefficiencies of paper-based systems that impact patient care. The goal of the RIS is to ensure that the right patient data is accessible to medical professionals at the right time for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment. The RIS […]
How Mammography Practices Benefit Enormously From Using The Right Software
To embody the patient-centric approach to care, it’s vital to have easy access to a patient’s complete medical record. However, working with disparate RIS, PACS, EMR, and HIS can make finding the necessary data time-consuming. In fact, a significant portion of the information collected in imaging diagnostics remains unused because it is stored in different […]
The Easiest Way to Submit ACR NRDR GRID Data
Quick Overview of ACR NRDR GRID The ACR NRDR GRID collects information about imaging facilities and allows participating facilities to compare benchmarks such as turnaround times, patient wait times, incident rates, and many other process and outcome measures with facilities of similar size and type. How does submitting your practice data to the GRID benefit […]
PowerServer PACS vs. LITE PACS: What’s Right for Me?
While they’re both PACS software, there are some key differences between the PowerServer™ PACS and PowerServer™ LITE PACS. Being aware of them should guide you on which solution makes the most sense for your practice. Curious to see which PACS would be the better fit for your team? Keep on reading to find out. PowerServer™ […]
VNA: Healthcare’s golden ticket to the future of medical image management
A vendor neutral archive (VNA) enables healthcare practices like hospitals, imaging facilities, women’s imaging centers, and multicenter teleradiology practices, etc. to not only have centralized control over the access and storage of their studies and keep their existing PACS or EMR/EHR systems connected but also facilitates interoperability, business continuity, and cost reductions. Here’s how healthcare […]
Cloud PACS vs on-premise PACS. What’s right for your medical imaging practice?
The dilemma about on-premise vs cloud PACS is common to hospitals, radiology groups, and medical imaging startups alike. It’s only natural for the decision makers at these practices to be concerned about data security, accessibility, and costs. However, some of these concerns are misconceptions, and therefore making business decisions based on these could be detrimental […]
How to optimize your teleradiology setup to read from home.
Masks, physical distancing, and teleradiology are part of the new reality for imaging practices that have resumed services to address the backlog of non-urgent screenings and diagnostic exams. The adoption of internal teleradiology—radiologist is employed by the practice but reads from home or remotely— is now a growing trend in comparison to its more familiar […]
The New Strategic Plan for the Efficiency of your Imaging facility
COVID 19 came, saw, and conquered. Healthcare witnessed its worst nightmare of the 21st century (so far). While front-line healthcare workers were fighting the virus on-ground, supportive healthcare services had to go remote. That’s when imaging facilities realized their virtual impairment. Over the past couple of months, the online search trends for telehealth, remote radiology, […]
Telehealth: Healthcare’s go-to solution during the COVID-19 pandemic
Growing patient volumes, crunched resources, and increasing pressure to reduce turn-around times — have always been healthcare challenges except that now the intensity has multiplied exponentially. As governments urge people to stay home and front-line healthcare workers do their best to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth solutions are playing a key role in alleviating the […]
Honeymoon is over. Now it’s time for full support of your PACS.
Imagine that the implementation of your PACS is complete and you’ve been transitioned to Support. You’ve come across some issues for which you need the vendor’s support, but now the frustrating wait begins. Haven’t we all gone through that annoying experience of not receiving an immediate and well-informed response for ‘how to set up’, ‘why […]
Top 3 Reasons to switch to RamSoft’s Cloud RIS/PACS in 2020
Over the last decade, RamSoft, a top medical imaging software provider has continued to innovate and improve remarkably thereby making it possible for radiologists to provide a more accurate patient diagnosis. In addition, our workflow automation has made the end-to-end imaging process easier, faster and more efficient. However, the gap of seamless data exchange within […]
PACS administrator’s guide to evaluating RIS/PACS systems
We believe that as a PACS administrator you need to be mindful that the imaging workflow solution you choose will impact staff productivity, quality of diagnosis, turnaround time, patient satisfaction, and even the relationship with referring physicians. We’ve identified 6 important things to consider when selecting your next RIS/PACS system: User-interface: Ease of use is […]
‘How are RamSoft’s solutions aiding the fight against covid-19?’
In the wake of the recent pandemic that is challenging the healthcare industry as a whole, RamSoft was approached by a research company asking how our products are being used in the fight against covid-19. Here’s what Vijay Ramanathan – CEO and Founder – responded: Data Accessibility is the key benefit of RamSoft’s PowerServer™ RIS/PACS […]
