Why Switch from Cine Film to CD-R Archiving?

In the current hospital environment, there must be compelling economic and clinical motivations for investing in new technology. Electronic archiving in general, and CD-R archiving specifically, offer compelling advantages:

Economic Advantages

• Reduced procedure costs
  
• Increased throughput of cath lab
  
• Increased productivity of facility
  
• Accelerated reimbursement through physician and technician time savings
  
• Potential for consolidation of computing resources
  
• Reduces staffing requirements of cath lab
  
• Reduces storage space requirements
  
• Eliminates use of expensive and toxic chemicals

Clinical Advantages

• Superior image quality through electronic enhancement
  
• Saves physician time for rapid diagnosis & treatment
  
• Increased access to patient study
  
• Archive and exchange media are the same
  
• Allows for easy duplication, hardcopy, and trasmittal
  
• Significantly reduces noise during procedure by eliminating cine film camera
  
• Significantly reduces noise during review by eliminating cine film projector
  

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