Planning for a Filmless Hospital

Abstract

Filmless hospital is transforming at an unprecedented rate. Physicians, nurses, clinicians, pharmacists, radiologists, emergency departments, local doctor’s offices, operating rooms, intensive care units, and insurance offices all must have instantaneous access to information from CT, MR, and X-ray images to treat their patients. Considering that these individuals could be on different floors of a hospital, across a campus, or scattered over several states, connecting them in real-time and in a cost-effective manner to the information they need is a monumental IT challenge. Detail planning is important in a filmless hospital project.