Currently being reported and the solution shared, Kanteron‘s programmers, while developing new functionalities for Kanteron‘s HIS (Hospital Information Systems) discovered a bug in SQL MacOSX by which the database would randomly (upon not detecting activity for an undetermined period of time) shutdown.After a few days of hard work, a solution has been discovered, and is now being shared with the rest of the community.Long live Open Source and Free Software!
Source. Radiologists‘ workloads grew substantially in the past few years, with procedures increasing 7 % and physician work relative value units (RVUs) increasing 10 % from 2002-2003 to 2006-2007, according to research published in this month‘s Radiology by Mythreyi Bhargavan, PhD, from the research department at the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the department of radiology and radiological science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues.In 2006-2007, the researchers reported that the average annual workload per FTE radiologist was 14,900 procedures, an increase of 7 % since 2002-2003 and 34 % since 1991-1992.
Many hospitals are considering vendor-neutral solutions for archiving and accessing medical images to avoid being locked into closed, proprietary software, according the report “In Enterprise Imaging: A Vendor Reality Check” from market research firm KLAS.The study found that while many providers are looking to their PACS vendor as a likely enterprise imaging partner, they also recognize the potential pitfalls of getting locked into a proprietary solution that may not translate well from one department to another.
A publication from ABI Research examines wireless telehealth and forecasts that 15 million systems will be in use–mainly in North America–by early in 2012. Source.
The Indianapolis Star reportsthat Tuesday June 2nd, Methodist Hospital turned away patients in ambulances, for the first time in its 100-plus history. Why? Because the electronic health records (EHR) system had gone down the prior afternoon — due to a power surge — and the backlog of paperwork was no longer tolerable.Kanteron Systems offers high-availability HIS and EHR technology, with off-site and disaster recovery options.
