There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “You can’t be all things to all people.”
Roughly three years after its founding as a filmless, paperless and wireless outpatient facility offering diagnostic imaging, oncology and surgery procedures, San Antonio-based Texas Cancer Clinic has come pretty darn close in such a short amount of time.
Sentillle Medical's Vanguard unit for breast MRI
Sentillle Medical's Vanguard unit for breast MRI

Magnetic resonance has long been used as a tool for spotting tumors, but rarely viewed as a first line of defense in treating breast cancer. X-ray mammography is the gold standard, with MRI and other alternative imaging modalities coming into play when screens and biopsies prove inconclusive.

With more than 550,000 core needle biopsy procedures performed annually in the U.S., there is a real need to match the right biopsy device – one that is both effective and efficient – to a given procedure.


With heightened need for higher resolution, three-dimensional color imaging and the advent of smaller, beefed up video cards that rival what’s packed in gaming consoles, it doesn’t take rocket science to forecast active matrix liquid crystal displays quickly are becoming the healthcare industry standard.
Demand spikes and dropping prices for these sleek and slim visual monitors contribute to the technology shift among healthcare facilities to flat panels from the bulkier traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) displays.

SAN ANTONIO – What is the value of a truly multimedia-enabled electronic health record? For some, it is worth millions; for others, it is the foundation for something of much greater value – decision support.
Radiologists and CIOs debated this topic at an EHR Panel titled “How EHR Will Increase Your Revenue in a PACS Environment” that was organized by Imaging Technology News (ITN) magazine and sponsored by Emageon, held Monday, March 19, in San Antonio, TX, on the eve of the PACS 2007 conference.


Being the only privately owned diagnostic imaging center in an entire state – albeit one of the smaller ones – can generate considerable competitive pressure on an outpatient facility and its staff.

The first thing you should know about remarketed or used equipment is that it’s not about picking up someone else’s junk or problems. At least not for the educated buyer.
By filtering out the vendor stereotypes and marketplace stigmas and doing your homework, you can locate a gem in the rough that not only will suit your needs, but also deliver the performance, bolster the volume and generate the revenue you seek.

In another one of those signs of the times, the volume of request for purchase (RFPs) forms being written for radiology PACS is in decline and the volume being written for cardiology PACS is on the rise. One reason might be as simple as the age of the two markets. The radiology PACS market is believed to be largely a replacement market, while the cardiology PACS market is swelling with first-time buyers. Is selecting the first cardiology PACS that much more challenging a process than selecting a first or second radiology PACS?

In the ever-changing and complicated process of integrating information systems, it’s easy to see how buying everything from a single vendor can have its perks.


When reading through a large set of image data, the last thing a radiologist wants is interruptions. Because efficient workflow is critical to productivity one of the principle complaints among radiologists is how to limit interruptions. Although some interruptions may be warranted, such as a STAT case alert or a call from a referring physician, interruptions need to be managed.
PACS/RIS Manage Interruptions
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