| RIS, or radiology information system, when | | | | A pacs viewer is simply a personal computer that |
| combined with PACS, a picture archiving and | | | | most medical offices already have in use that is |
| communications system, allows your physicians, | | | | running the RIS PACS software. If you are |
| radiologic technologists and other personnel to | | | | wanting to make the switch from film to digital |
| utilize the speed of the Internet with new digital | | | | images, you can add the software and hardware |
| technologies to bring your small or medium-sized | | | | at your discretion over time, which will enable you |
| medical office or clinic up to maximum | | | | to stay on budget and add to your digital system |
| productivity. When RIS PACS is used with a pacs | | | | as funding allows. |
| web viewer, all of your authorized medical | | | | The RIS PACS software works with the pacs |
| personnel can store and present patient digital | | | | web viewer and enables you to schedule your |
| images efficiently and easily. | | | | patients most efficiently. Intake information can |
| The storage of patient images is a huge issue for | | | | be recorded on this system as well. Tests can be |
| all medical facilities. They must be in compliance | | | | scheduled from here, and reports can be posted. |
| with HIPPA regulations, which require storage of | | | | Because this is all online and available to all |
| these pictures for several years. When medical | | | | authorized medical staff, the result is that doctors |
| offices were using film images, it took a great | | | | have a fuller history of a patient who might have |
| deal of storage space as well as physical labor to | | | | seen several doctors because the results are all |
| maintain those patient records up to quality | | | | recorded in the one location, which is easy to |
| standards. This can all be a thing of the past when | | | | access via the Internet. It can also help to reduce |
| you make the switch to digital imaging and using | | | | unnecessarily repeated tests and procedures. |
| RIS PACS in conjunction with a pacs web viewer. | | | | Digital images are easily seen on the pacs web |
| RIS PACS is a type of computer software that | | | | viewer. Because of the digital aspect of the |
| can be used to both schedule patients as well as | | | | image, they can be enhanced so that certain |
| store and view digital patient images. Because it | | | | parts of the images are clarified when seen |
| utilizes an online platform, RIS PACS can be used | | | | through the pacs viewer. |
| by any authorized medical personnel who have | | | | After you have looked at digital images on your |
| Internet access, anywhere around the world. | | | | pacs web viewer, they can be stored in a server |
| Doctors can work away from their physical | | | | that takes up very little space yet holds |
| offices and can retrieve and send images, and | | | | thousands of patient images. With the correct |
| consult with physicians regardless of their location | | | | software, you can easily turn one of your office |
| worldwide. | | | | computers into a highly functional pacs viewer. |