Radiology with PACS24: what is it and why does your hospital need it?

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We are confident that when working in the healthcare field, you often come across terminology that is difficult for people outside the medical community to understand. One of these narrow-profile abbreviations is familiar to most doctors and radiologists – PACS.

Still out of trend and wondering how PACS can work for the benefit of radiologists, doctors, healthcare providers and patients? The answer to these and other questions is given by Denis Shklyar, head of the technical support department of Medstar Solutions.

 

What is PACS?

You may have heard of PACS before but are not quite sure what it means. In simple terms, PACS is an image archiving and transfer system that electronically stores medical images and reports instead of the legacy method of manually feeding, retrieving and transporting X-ray film.

How it works?

Although PACS systems initially consisted of local servers, there has been an increase in the number of such systems with cloud servers in recent years. A prime example of this is PACS24, the first cloud-based service for storing, transferring, viewing, consulting and generating diagnostic reports. The solution further optimizes the system in terms of archiving capacity, cost efficiency, data security and availability, and most importantly, eliminates the need for on-premises servers in hospitals that use medical imaging. Thus, radiologists, doctors and other medical personnel have unlimited access to data via PCs, tablets, smartphones for further high-quality diagnosis of patients and the appointment of effective treatment.

PACS24 is becoming an essential component of radiology departments due to its ability to simplify and accelerate the management of medical imaging archives, improve the medical process and increase productivity. It is the modern digital equivalent of the formerly standard paper and film archiving.

In addition, PACS24 allows you to store DICOM files in the cloud. Images taken with any radiological imaging method (ultrasound, MRI, CT, radiography, etc.) are stored in DICOM format in the cloud. All data is under reliable protection, since any system vulnerabilities are prevented by taking serious measures.

 

What are the advantages of the PACS24 cloud service?

The system’s convenience and speed of access make the PACS24 a logical and welcome upgrade for any medical practice. The use of cloud-based PACS in radiology will only grow as full digitalization of the area, as it happens with many other industries, is becoming inevitable.

Main advantages:

• Lower Costs – Digital storage is significantly less expensive than the storage required for printed images. The affordable price makes PACS24 much more cost effective in terms of storage space than traditional archives.

• Faster workflow – PACS24 services eliminate the need for manual file filing, retrieval and transport. Accelerated image search and remote access to images help radiologists work much faster. Digital transmission of medical images improves patient care by enabling remote inter-department communication. By the way, thanks to PACS24, doctors can see the images even before their patients return to the office. This not only improves the quality of care, but also speeds up the workflow.

• PACS24 provides remote access. This means that doctors from remote settlements can get urgent access to the necessary data for teleradiology.

• More organized and convenient management of patient data, because all information can be obtained through a single access point, since PACS24 can be easily integrated with various medical information systems.

 

Medstar SolutionsIn addition, hospital managers should be aware that moving the system to the cloud reduces costs, as opposed to on-premises equipment, which requires additional maintenance. Remote access is provided to anyone with an Internet connection and an account, and interaction between doctors is greatly simplified.

The advantages of working with electronic photographs and viewing images on computer screens are absolutely clear, because now there is no need to spend extra money on paper and film.

As the adoption of digital tools in healthcare picks up steam, the digitization of medical imaging is likely to become ubiquitous, and the move to cloud-based systems like PACS24 will be the next logical step in the evolution of your healthcare facility.

 

You can find out more here → www.pacs24.net

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