Digital archive center: implementation for a radiology department.

A Stochastic Model for Prioritized Outpatient Scheduling in a Radiology Center

This paper discussed the scheduling problem of outpatients in a radiology center with an emphasis on priority. To more compatibility to real-world conditions, we assume that the elapsed times in different stages to be uncertain that follow from the specific distribution function. The objective is to minimize outpatients’ total spent time in a radiology center. The problem is formulated as a fle...

A Comparison of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Radiology Departments in Hospitals before and after Digital System Implementation

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of the radiology department, which devours most of the financial resources, efficiency and effectiveness in this department is one of the main concern of policymakers in most health care systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of a radiology department before and after the implement...

Digital Options for Panoramic Radiology

Integrating a Community Hospital-Based Radiology Department With an Academic Medical Center.

The growing trend in US health care continues to be consolidation. Sixty percent of hospitals are now part of health systems, up 7 percentage points from a decade ago. In fact, between 2007 and 2012, 432 hospital merger-and-acquisition deals were announced, involving 835 hospitals [1]. This article outlines a 5-year imaging asset plan and radiology workflow observation from the integration of a...

Digital Archive Systems

OVERVIEW: With the spread of digital satellite broadcasting and Internetbased electronic-information services, digital content (information in digital form) is expanding rapidly in society and individual households in the form of text, still pictures, motion pictures, sound, etc. In such a digital-multimedia era, the archiving of this huge volume of data has become a major issue. Against this b...