Dear PACS Insider,
Radiology work environments often encompass a variety of software applications, including PACS, RIS, speech recognition, advanced visualization, and electronic medical records (EMR), distributed over two or more PCs. Having to switch back and forth between different keyboards and mice can be an inefficient and a less than ergonomic way to work.
Open-source software can provide a solution to this challenge, however, according to Dr. Stuart Pomerantz of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Using a freely available TCP/IP network-based keyboard-mouse software application, MGH found that users can successfully control two PCs using a single mouse and keyboard.
Pomerantz discussed his institution's experience with the application during a scientific session at this month's annual Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting in Seattle. As a PACS Insider, you have access to the article before it is published for the rest of our AuntMinnie.com members. To learn more, click here.
Also, be sure to check out other articles from the SIIM meeting, including how to reduce the effects of PACS downtime, how radiology and pathology can benefit from a stronger IT link, and how a wireless LAN-based miniPACS can boost the management of portable imaging devices. You can also read about how to make PACS work in small imaging centers and how lossy compression was found to be perceptible at even low compression ratios.
Do you have a topic you'd like to see covered, or are you interested in submitting an article to AuntMinnie.com? Please feel free to drop me a line.
