Digital imaging is fast making life easier for patients and hospitals. Patients may no longer have to carry around images of X-ray, MRI, CT scan, mammograms, ultrasound, EEG and other medical tests every time they head out to see a doctor. Besides, misplacing medical records may not mean additional expenditure on duplicates.
Corporate hospitals across the country are now opening up to a digital imaging technology for storage and easy retrieval of images, thereby saving patients time and effort of carrying their medical records.
Called picture archival and communications system (PACS), the technology helps store images such as MRI, CT scans, X-ray etc in a compressed form in a centralised server connected to all the imaging machines. After a test is done, the image is stored in the centralised hospital server. Whenever a patient visits consultants, the images can be retrieved from this server. Ankur Bharti, the healthcare consultant at management consulting firm Technopak, said, "Doctors can view the patient's images from any room in the hospital."
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NOTE : Sneha Diagnostics has been using PACS since it's inception in it's state-of-the art diagnostics centers across remote places in India, with a motto to bring world class medical diagnostics to every corner.
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Check out www.healthizen.com. How are they doing online medical records?
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