PACS for Private Practice

[painisfear]

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How are the folks in private practice managing storage of C-ARM pictures? Are you saving to USB then uploading to chart OR are you sending to a PACS system directly from the C-ARM?

Are any of you able to digitally receive images (MRIs etc) from another institution via the PACS system?

I am trying to understand if there is a cost effective solution for these functions or if it's significantly cheaper and more accessible to do it manually.

Thanks!

 

[PainMD23]

For C-ARM pictures, we save to USB and upload to the EHR through Medicapture. We assign this task to the employee running the C-arm that day. We have a PACS for our in-house digital xray. We don't have in-house ct or MRI. For outside MRI's and CT, we typically view these through the imaging center's web based viewer or on CD. We don't use our PACS to store outside imaging from other institutions.

 

[Malayil]

In Athena we can use the Athena mobile image capture app to take a pic off the screen and it goes directly into the chart

 

[powermd]

If you want an actual (free) PACS, check out Orthanc. At my old rpactice I had this running on one of the procedure suite computers and the staff could upload the pictures at the end of every case. It has a little web interface to view and download images.

 

[painisfear]

Thank you all. This was helpful

 

[Ducttape]

Orthanc?

wonder how they came up with that name.

(i immediately think of Saruman's tower)

 

[lobelsteve]

Orthanc?

wonder how they came up with that name.

(i immediately think of Saruman's tower)

You sound like one of Sharkey's men.

 

[RoloTomassi]

We download MRIs and store images using Osirix and Remoteye. Ambra for patients to upload their images remotely.

 

[Multimodal]

If you want an actual (free) PACS, check out Orthanc. At my old rpactice I had this running on one of the procedure suite computers and the staff could upload the pictures at the end of every case. It has a little web interface to view and download images.

^This is the way. Orthanc was free and our Siemens C-arm and ultrasound both can dump images into a small laptop we set up as an image repository server. We gave the link to our staff and now anyone on our network can access our PACS images while at the office or remotely when connected to our network via VPN. honestly not that hard to setup if you have some basic background with windows based PC's and networking.

 

[Ducttape]

you know im more typically a member of the resistance...

You sound like one of Sharkey's men.

 

[Status Sciaticus]

Orthanc?

wonder how they came up with that name.

(i immediately think of Saruman's tower)

 

[Ducttape]

to tell you the truth, sharkeys men probably never saw Orthanc. they were "ruffians" that were hired from the area surrounding the Shire after Saruman was displaced from Orthanc.

(in the book, Saruman did not die at Orthanc. he moved to the Shire and took the name of Sharkey. the Battle of Bywater or Battle of the Shire was fought after the return of the 4 hobbits to Bywater and was the last discussed battle of the War of the Ring)