Pendleton Hospital in Pendleton, OR, has lost more than 5,000 archived images due to the failure of PACS hard drives, requiring the hospital to contact 900 patients with requests to retake x-rays, according to an Associated Press report filed earlier this week.
The facility's reports are still available, but the images associated with those reports have disappeared from the archive due to four of its five hard drives crashing. The hospital said it will redo x-rays at no cost to patients or their insurance companies. The facility was using imaging equipment and image management software provided by GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.
The facility said that GE has reconfigured the system and created duplicate storage of archived images. Copies of the images will also go to a third long-term storage site in Denver.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 10, 2006
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