All posts by dkorolyk
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What is a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)?
What is as Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)? Herman Oosterwijk, President, OTech Inc published a >>> white paper <<< that described and defined what a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is. He also discussed some essential features and aspects...
- Posted March 28, 2014
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Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) Testing Toolkit
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a XDS toolkit for testing with various IHE integration profiles. The test facilities are the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework and when used are considered conformance testing against...
- Posted March 27, 2014
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XDS-I and PIX/PDQv3 Testing Simulation Tools
Digging around IHE.net I found some testing tools. Here are links to XDS-I (imaging) Testing and Simulation Tools. These tools can be used to do testing related to IHE (Integrated Healthcare Enterprise) integration. The source is from...
- Posted March 27, 2014
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What is Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)?
What is Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)? This is a great presentation outlining the structure and architecture of Cross a Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) environment. This is a 57 slide presentation. The presentation transcript is included as well....
- Posted March 10, 2014
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Healthcare.gov web site security called ‘Shameful’
Security expert — and once the world’s most-wanted cyber criminal — Kevin Mitnick submitted a scathing criticism to a House panel Thursday of ObamaCare’s Healthcare.gov website, calling the protections built into the site “shameful” and “minimal.” In...
- Posted February 15, 2014
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EHR Vendor Switching 2014
There’s been a big push for clinics and healthcare organizations to get on the EHR band wagon in recent years given the government incentives. However this rush to implement EHRs has come at a price, which is...
- Posted December 19, 2013
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3-D Mammography Increases Cancer Detection
A study by the University of Pennsylvania has show that 3-D Mammography increases cancer detection and lowers the rates of callbacks. Compared to traditional mammography, 3D mammography—known as digital breast tomosynthesis—found 22 percent more breast cancers and...
- Posted December 5, 2013
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3-D Color Printing For Soft Tissue Prostheses
- Posted December 3, 2013
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How 3-D Printing Can Revolutionize Healthcare
In that last year 3-D printing has gotten a lot of visibility for consumer applications and uses. The prices has also dramatically dropped as well. Recently 3-D Medical Printing is also starting to gain a lot of momentum....
- Posted November 15, 2013
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3D medical holograph coming soon
Three-dimensional holographic medical imaging may not be as far away in the future as one might think, one recently concluded hospital pilot study has confirmed. For certain structural heart disease procedures, the 3D holographic visualization technology has...
- Posted October 31, 2013