Designed for your Medical Imaging Healthcare Enterprise
When choosing a PACS solution, it’s important to consider how your organization will benefit from choosing an all-inclusive, enterprise-wide medical imaging solution. Consider these advantages:
- Enterprise access and utilization tools make up the backbone of the imaging environment
- Stable IT solutions are deployed to bridge the functionality and infrastructure gaps between generations of new and legacy systems
- Disruption-free implementation ensures your facility is able to provide services during upgrades and replacements
- Maximized value from your existing information technology budget
PODCAST
Using PACS to Track ER Discrepancy Reporting
Learn how PACS can be used to provide better, safer care by bridging the communication gap between the emergency room and radiology, ensuring that radiology findings are communicated back to the emergency physician.
Not all PACS are created equal. When it’s time to consider a vendor, be sure you keep these operational enhancements in mind:
Improve Communication
When radiology, cardiology, mammography units and other medical specialties all produce images, which are used by the OR, ER, ICU, among others, it’s easy for access to become an issue. Your PACS instantly shares and communicates with other departments without changing your existing system.
Dataflow
Equally as important as understanding the people workflow to understand where and how data flows.
- What happens to the radiology image after it is taken?
- Where does it go, and who needs to see it?
- When it is reported and where is it stored - temporarily and permanently?
Integrate with Existing Hardware
Your PACS should connect
seamlessly to your existing infrastructure—repurposing existing hardware and ensuring that the software connects to all modalities.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Your PACS should incorporate a range of native high-availability and disaster recovery components as part of its standard functionality. In addition, your PACS vendor should be ready to assist you anytime, day or night, in case disaster strikes.
Change Management – Technology, People and Process
Technology is undoubtedly the key element of any PACS installation, but it's far from the only essential part: ultimately, a successful PACS implementation is the integration of technology, people and process.
Your PACS will only be as effective as the people using it – so ensure that you receive dedicated training for all specialists who will be using PACS and adjust your workflow to match.
McKesson is an experienced PACS developer and installer that will help you guide your people and process by guaranteeing a smooth transition, first-class training, successful performance of product and people, and outstanding customer support after the installation.
Schedule a demo to learn more about how we can provide operational enhancements to your healthcare enterprise.
