PACS Training Modules at Texas Children?s Hospital

Contract Optimization at Texas Children's Hospital

In 1998, faced with mounting financial pressure, Texas Children’s Hospital found its mission in jeopardy. Payors sought to reduce expenditures, while physicians wanted to provide the highest quality patient care, research, and teaching. Working with PROS Revenue Management, the hospital spearheaded an initiative to bring greater analytic capabilities to administrative operations, initially focu...

Neuroblastoma in Iran: an experience of 32 years at a referral childrens hospital.

BACKGROUND This survey aim was to evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes of neuroblastoma patients in one the most important children referral hospitals in Iran as a model from developing countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective, non-randomized analytic study was conducted on 219 newly diagnosed neuroblastoma cases. RESULTS The age of patients ranged from 1-156 months with the av...

XDS-I Gateway Development for HIE Connectivity with Legacy PACS at Gil Hospital

OBJECTIVES The ability to support healthcare document sharing is imperative in a health information exchange (HIE). Sharing imaging documents or images, however, can be challenging, especially when they are stored in a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) archive that does not support document sharing via standard HIE protocols. This research proposes a standard-compliant imaging g...

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Critical success factors for a hospital-wide PACS

Since 1996 a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) is installed at the university hospital of Freiburg. The PACS is integrated in the hospital information system (HIS) and several modalities of different vendors are attached to it. During the implementation phase three critical factors to the success of our PACS installation where identified: the support of the workflow, the interf...