HealthCare IT Futures

More and more Healthcare professionals are having to identify and evaluate healthcare IT solutions for their practices and clinical groups. These health IT systems are both clinical and administrative, combining complex IT inside a medical context. Radiologists shake their heads as they recall the frustrations of implementing PACS or evaluating PACS Vendors. Today, all providers are having to grapple with EMR and EHR. Which Electronic Medical Records system is best, most appropriate and best value in terms of meaningful outcomes. There are now 500 EMR Suppliers providing both EMR Services and EMR Software: can you tell the difference between them?

MedicExchange provides decision makers with access with useable and valuable information about what is available to them.

Electronic Medical Records

EMR has existed for a long time but it has now been moved centre stage for medical practitioners. For many MDs the value of EMR and EHR systems is open to debate and how these systems integrate with other pre-existing IT investment like practice-management systems. Decision makers will have to decide whether to work with their existing suppliers or explore new EMR vendors and new approaches such as open source EMR or web-based EMR systems. You can find out more in our Electronic Medical Records Section

PACS - Decisions, Decisions

PACS and associated technologies like RIS can stir radiologists to a fury as they recall the pain they experienced trying to select and deploy a PACS system within their environment. PACS should not be complex, but the lack of open protocols and standards and the often bewildering tech speak which cloaks PACS Vendors so often leads to confusion. What PACS does is straightforward and should be a standardised protocol. Until such a time deploying a PACS will require patience, clear planning processes and the ability to hold your temper.

Radiology Beyond Devices

Experienced radiologists will tell you that the last 40 years has seen radiology move from the dark ages to a science fiction future as the standards tools like Ultrasound and X-Ray have been superseded or complemented by CT, MRI and PET scanners that grow smaller all the time. At the same radiology has moved from imaging towards a wide range of interventional practices. The aching backed radiologist will also sigh as he recalls the small number of images they had to read in the past compared to the thousands created every day by MRI or PET. As the discipline has changed so have the requirements for more tools to support the radiologist in diagnostic activities such as CAD.

Making Sense of IT all

Whenever MedicExchange polls medical professionals on their challenges two themes come to the fore: the challenging complexity of their enviroment in terms of practice, politics and priorities and the requirement to constantly evaluate the new tools and assess their value, cost and application to their own situation. An astonishing majority (95%) of them admit that the Internet has become the key tool for finding, investigating and assessing what is available and all acknowledge that conference style events are becoming less and less valuable. At the same time vendors are continuing to spend money on big ticket conferences and vague pamphlets. What professionals are demanding is more facts and figures and fewer adjectives. As the number of vendors grows and the differences between solutions are increasingly subtle, they want a third party they can trust to deliver that information. MedicExchange.

Veterinary Products

Realizing the increasing need among veterinary practitioners and allied professionals for a place where they can search for and choose quality veterinary equipment and products from the best vendors in the industry at good deals, interact with peers to share knowledge, see latest product reviews, comprehensive and timely coverage of veterinary industry news, MedicExchange has expanded to include the veterinary speciality among it's offerings. Veterinary Equipments catalogue offers multiple veterinary software like Veterinary EMR, veterinary services like veterinary teleradiology services and equipments like Veterinary Ultrasound, Veterinary CT etc.