Veterinarians and private practices to benefit while improving quality of patient care”
Olympia, WA—(February 3, 2012) - - nuCore Solutions, a long time PACS provider today announced improvements for the health care industry when managing images created with different digital modalities. nuCore Solutions declares the end to the unnecessary high costs of manually trying to deal with the millions of images created every day.
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“There are many benefits to PACS,” explained Greg Perry, General Manager of nuCore Solutions US. “Around 7% of all images end up lost every year. Lost images can impact the comparative diagnostic as well as increase costs to the patient facility for replacement images, only to fall back on a 7% chance they may be lost again. NuCore helps to address this and other important imaging issues by presenting cost effective solutions for all sizes and types of facilities.”
Managing the vast number of images has been a huge problem in the past but a great opportunity for the future. Ttechnology continues to provide benefits to the healthcare industry. Film degrades over time, digital images do not. All someone has to do is go back and look at their pictures taken with non-digital cameras after a number of years to understand what also happens to the quality of film based medical images.
Beyond the shelf life of an image, the digital world allows any entity that takes digital medical imagespictures to now be automatically distributed, cataloged and stored. Perry adds, “With our affordable, expandable PACS products, Additionally, future access for we can pre-fetch prior studies automatically reference is easier than ever. Additionally, any Physician, Radiologist, Orthopedist, Chiropractor or Veterinarian doctor can now have remote access to these files from anywhere in a hospital, office or home via their desktop computer or while mobile with their smartphone. And, if they determine they need to send it to someone else, they can do that electronically as well.”
In the past if you moved to a different city and found another doctor, you had to physically send for those X-rays and MRIs. Now they can be sent instantly via a secure Internet connection. Technology is changing everything in the DICOM space for the better.
The end result aside from cost savings is the improved patient care. Most people remember when they had an X-ray or MRI and would have to wait for the technician to develop the film, put it in a folder, and then have it physically delivered to the doctor resulting in a long process. Today, before you put your shirt on in the X-ray room, the doctor can already be looking at the images and can discuss it with you by the time you walk to his office. This is just one example of improved patient care. In times where a doctor determines that he would might like a second opinion from a doctor on the other side of the globe—no folder, no mail, no stamp, no problem.
