By following HIPAA standards for medical imaging, healthcare practitioners limit the risk of compromising patient data. Key Takeaways: The Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare practitioners to take steps to secure health information against security risks. HIPAA standards must be followed by healthcare professionals who handle MRI and CT scans. …
How the HL7 and IHE healthcare interoperability standards foster digital coordination among healthcare professionals Key Takeaways: Sharing medical images and other patient data can be challenging due to a lack of standardization among healthcare information systems. Health Level 7 (HL7) and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) have created standards to promote information sharing…
Key Takeaways: Cybercriminals are launching picture archiving and communication system (PACS) attacks to steal patient data from healthcare organizations. Hackers can exploit PACS security gaps to launch attacks and illegally access patient data. Healthcare organizations must utilize medical visualization software that complies with HIPAA and other data security regulations to keep cybercriminals at bay.…
Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in fields as diverse as cybersecurity and chess programming in order to automate redundant tasks or discern patterns quickly. The utility of machine learning tech is that it gets better over time with very little human input. As a result, humans shift their energy and attention to…
Here’s everything you need to know about the future of cloud-based PACS for medical imaging. Key Takeaways: PACS (picture archiving and communication system) solutions represent one of the fastest-growing healthcare technology segments. Cloud-based PACS solutions provide healthcare organizations with anywhere, anytime access to imagery databases. New data security requirements and the increasing need…
The Connecticut based biotech company, DICOM Director, hosted a webinar on January 26th, 2021. During the webinar, Dr. Everett and Dr. Pearlstone discussed how to move away from DVDs and sending them through the mail which will save you and your staff time and money. The main target audience for this webinar is Radiologists, MRI, CT Scan…
It’s very likely that some of your most sensitive information is vulnerable, out there just for the taking. “How is that possible?” You may ask. “I have 2-factor authentication configured on all of my social and business accounts!”. Indeed, the information you manage may be secure, but what about sensitive information pertaining to you, but…
The main instruments used in Pathology have always been a microscope and glass slides holding tissue samples. The innovation of Digital Pathology, scanning slides to create digital images for viewing, is now poised to change the field of Pathology as we know it. The evolution of both hardware and software enabling whole slide imaging…
Unwelcome Guests The frequency, potency, and sophistication of cybersecurity threats continue to surge. Any business which employs digital technology, which is to say all businesses, is vulnerable to the attacks of an assortment of rogue digital adversaries, from individual “hackers” (a misnomer we will confront and clear up) to networks of dissident programmers bound…
PACS, or Picture Archiving and Communication System, is a combination of different devices working together to digitize films and store them. Prior to PACS, physical films required large storage areas for housing. Digital PACS is far superior in cost and ease of use compared to physical storage. With the increasing expenses of operating on-site…