title: Parsing the PACS market. Evaluating a PACS upgrade or replacement decision is all about understanding need.
abstract: * The current PACS vendor market is particularly unstable right now, because of the global economic recession, much of the industry's attention focusing on EMRs because of the passage of federal healthcare IT stimulus funding for core-clinical IT implementation, and vendor downsizing. * In theory, ClOs should be able to obtain particularly good "deals" with vendors at this time; but the complex economic situation makes deal-making more challenging than it might appear at first glance. * ClOs and industry experts agree that CIOs need to strategize carefully with regard to PACS purchasing and especially PACS replacement purchasing, in the current market.
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Hagland
mesh_terms: D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States