Based on responses to IMV’s 2010 Cardiology Information Continuum Report.
About one-third (32%) of respondents with cardiology PACS (CPACS) said their CPACS budgets are presently managed by the cardiology department. Another 22% said that their CPACS budgets are managed by their cardiac cath labs. Most of the rest of the CPACS users said that their budgets are managed by the hospital's information technology/management information system (IT/MIS) department (16%), the hospital's radiology/diagnostic imaging department (13%), or a healthcare system-based IT/MIS department (12%).
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MarketStat ArchivesRadiation therapy treatment plans using images
Service support services for R/F units
Hospital PACS plans for the future
Administration of echo labs
Nonemergency angiography waiting time
Cath lab sites with fixed cath labs
Hard-copy film use at sites with digital mammography units
Nuclear medicine -- Average waiting time
Radiation oncology -- Types of images used in radiation therapy treatment plans
Vascular MRI -- Percent of sites performing and percent of MRI procedures
