PACS Articles and White Papers
AAOS Bulletin
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Benefits of a “Totally Electronic Office” Research Your Options
By A. Herbert Alexander, MD
December 2003
Technology is already available that will allow willing orthopaedic surgeons to incorporate computed radiography (CR), electronic medical records (EMR) and computed practice management into their practices.
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A Primer on Filmless Radiology
Know the pros and cons to before making the transition
By A. Herbert Alexander, MD
February 2004
Many hospitals have already moved to filmless radiology (FR). Instead of viewing a radiographic image on conventional X-ray film, physicians can view plain films, CAT scans and MRIs on computer screens. The price tag on FR...
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Are your Electronic Files Protected?
Tricks and hints for maintaining the totally electronic office
By A. Herbert Alexander, MD
February 2006
You’ve successfully implemented a totally electronic office (TEO). You have a computerized practice manager (PM) that handles your appointments and billing, an electronic medical record (EMR) system that keeps track of your phone calls and patient-related “to do” items, and computed radiology (CR) so that there isn’t an X-ray acetate in the office..
Orthopedic Technology Review
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Before and After PACS
By Danielle Cohen
The chaos of managing 200-plus x-ray files per day motivated OrthoMemphis to convert to an electronic system..
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The New Generation
By Kris Kyes
The evolution of EMR and PACS is Moving Orthopedists to Paperless Practices.
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The Digital Dilemma
By Kris Kyes
Digital radiography has attracted the attention of many orthopedic practices interested in reducing imaging costs and improving efficiency, but competing technologies for eliminating film have created confusion.
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Cutting Edge: Focus on Pain Management
By Greg Ptacek
OSS has a fully digital imaging department with three radiography rooms, two short bore magnets, one extremity magnet, one CT unit, and a color Doppler unit. The facility also has three C-arms and arthroscopes in the ambulatory surgery center. Images from all of these modalities are stored in a Stryker PACS.
Orthopedics Today
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PACS and digital imaging help improve patient quality of care
By Tina DiMarcantonio
Hospitals and orthopedic practices are slowly making the switch to a digital office. They evaluated the vendors, prepared their offices and trained their staffs for the grueling weeks of implementation. In the end, they said, it was all worth it. They abandoned their paper records to cut costs, enhanced health care delivery and improved the most important part of the job: patient quality of care.
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Illinois surgeons face challenges embracing digital radiography
By Gina Brockenbrough
As the staff at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute found out, making the switch from conventional radiography to digital imaging can pose its share of obstacles, despite making gains in resolution. The institute installed both digital and computed radiography in one center and maintained conventional radiography in another. The staff found it harder to perform exams and had difficulties with template size using digital radiography (DR).
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Physicians weigh the costs, benefits and challenges of digital imaging systems
By Tina DiMarcantonio
Digital imaging is still not a universal tool in orthopedics, but more practices are recognizing its benefits and gradually implementing its technology despite some cost and reimbursement constraints. Whether their practices have “gone digital” or not, most orthopedists now agree that plain X-ray film images will one day become obsolete. In the meantime, all are keeping an eye on the latest technology to prepare for the time when every office and hospital uses digital systems. The following tells the experience of five orthopedic surgeons, all at different stages of “going digital” in their practices.
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Orthopedists offer their advice for implementing a digital system
By Tina DiMarcantonio
When practices are choosing a digital imaging vendor, they often seek advice from others who already have a system in place. Orthopedics Today compiled some “words of wisdom” from surgeons well-versed in the process of vendor selection on how to survive implementation.
PACS Web
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Digital imaging makes inroads in orthopedics
By: Hirsch Handmaker, M.D., Eliot Siegel, M.D., Jonathan Levy, M.D., And Jerrald Goldman, M.D.
The Oakland Athletics medical and training staff, preparing for spring training prior to the 2004 baseball season, considered the options for obtaining and reviewing radiographic studies. In past seasons, players went by van, five or so at a time, to local imaging facilities and offices in Phoenix and then returned to training
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