Planning a totally digital radiology department.

Capacity planning for waiting list management at the Radiology department

Digital radiology and PACS.

Future hospital information systems should permit the systematic storage of all information generalized within the hospital, including medical diagnostic images. For such a system to be realized, implementation of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is needed. The development of computed radiography with an imaging plate (CR) has made it possible for digitalization of all kinds ...

Digital Radiology: A Decade of Clinical Experience

The world's first entirely digital radiology system was planned in 1988 and implemented in 1992 in the Danube Hospital of the Socio Medical Care Centre East in Vienna, Austria. An overview is provided of a decade's experience in digital radiology, and of the various considerations in implementing such a system. This experience has proven that the principal advantage of digital radiology is reli...

A comparison of appointment schedules in a hospital radiology department.

There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the need for health administrators to consider the objectives and welfare of both patients and staff when formulating working policy, and, in particular, the widespread introduction of appointment schemes in a wide range of clinics and general practice surgeries has been an important instrument in balancing the time wasted by doctors (in wai...

Digital Options for Panoramic Radiology