Re:A billion medical images are exposed online
by lostlogin on Saturday January 11, 2020 @12:38PM
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> no real ROI to be seen from it.
I just did a brief Google, and the situation seems to be the same as always - there isn’t a clear win financially when a PACS is installed. They are expensive to buy, to run and to maintain and the gains are often hard to measure financially.
Having a minimum wage worker sort old films and carry them to where they are needed was cheap compared to the wages and hardware a large hospital needs to pay for when a large PACS goes in.
The number of people who miss hard copy film must be very small however, that world was archaic.
I just did a brief Google, and the situation seems to be the same as always - there isn’t a clear win financially when a PACS is installed. They are expensive to buy, to run and to maintain and the gains are often hard to measure financially. Having a minimum wage worker sort old films and carry them to where they are needed was cheap compared to the wages and hardware a large hospital needs to pay for when a large PACS goes in.
The number of people who miss hard copy film must be very small however, that world was archaic.