CR Solutions In The Mobile Radiology Environment

Medical facilities large and small are feeling the pinch of the tight economic climate in which the country finds itself at present. Because of this, they are looking for ways to reduce costs while still providing outstanding patient care. One excellent way that hospitals and other medical offices have found to increase their productivity is to include a mobile radiology component to their list of diagnostic tools. One aspect that needs to be kept in mind is compatibility among not only the digital radiology components in your mobile unit, but also back at your home office. For this, CR Solutions make a great fit.

CR solutions offer one of the most cost-effective digital imaging options currently available. If you have film x-ray equipment at your home office, you can retrofit it with suitable CR components and turn it into digital imaging equipment. There are also mobile CR systems that are compact and lightweight, making them perfect for a portable solution when you need to diagnose veterinary patients on a farm, or human patients on a cruise ship, at a sports stadium or at a nursing home.

What makes the home-office CR digital imaging equipment compatible with the mobile CR solutions is the computer language that both speak. DICOM is the common format used in the translation of digital images taken in a variety of modalities. Because of this, the CR digital images that you take out on the road can also be read by other x-ray equipment back at your home office, such as the PACS system.

You can also use CR solutions in a totally mobile environment, as might be the case for the veterinary practice or an urgent care unit. The CR imagers are portable via a wheeled cart, making them easy to maneuver. You can add a laptop computer that has access to your home PACS, or a web-based PACS, which will then allow you to view digital images, send and receive them while on the road, and then store the digital images that you take to a server back at your home office. Printers can also be added to the laptop computer, so that you can print out hard copies of your CR digital images as needed while in the field caring for patients.

Because you can visit and treat a wider number of patients that might not otherwise have access to your services, you can see that this will help to improve your cash flow while at the same time bringing needed health care to your patients.