Thursday, August 4, 2005
Middle-life crisis
Strategic Planning is not just for those looking ahead to acquiring a new PACS. The few hundred Philips PACS customers that find themselves wondering about their systemís future, should probably start some Strategic Planning. Those users with systems that are five or more years old, are probably already planning for their next system. But everyone else with systems somewhere from brand new to four years old, considered the middle-life of a PACS life expectancy, should start some Strategic Planning. What could you do in the short term to smooth the waters ahead? Just how far outside of radiology should you push the current web viewer solution? Should you continue to store image data on the PACS-attached storage solution, or consider migrating it to a vendor-neutral solution? You could probably start preparing the department for the next system (whatever it might be) with fewer dollars than that required to purchase a new system. My recommendation to all those departments in middle-life crisis is to start working on some Strategic Planning right now.
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