It’s a question often posed by thought-leaders and end-users in the imaging community: What prevents health IT from working as seamlessly, and with as much interoperability, as the technology that drives banking, travel or e-commerce? There are a few key issues, with the biggest one being demand, posits Steve Deaton, vice president of sales for Viztek, a PACS vendor with more than 2000 installations in hospitals and outpatient settings in the U.S.
“The primary hurdle is the generally slow pace of technology adoption in the healthcare space,” Deaton says. “The key to change is getting a critical mass of people to buy in. When you have 100 million patients demanding access to their imaging information, that is going to drive upstream adoption more powerfully than anything we’ve seen so far.”
Read the entire Article here on ImagingBiz.com originally published on Aril 15th 2014 by Cat Vasko
Ronny Bachrach
Marketing Director at Viztek LLC
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