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Kathy Mahdoubi, Senior Correspondent | April 15, 2009
At this point it's about finding the right balance, said Loos-Austin. We try to adhere to HIPAA-like guidelines in the absence of actual mandates.
Economic pressures and the innate complexity of hospital systems make implementation a painstaking process. Even with the promise of funding, how much and where the actual federal stimulus monies can be applied is still a big question mark.
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"There's a high level of strategy, but no definitive answer as to how it's actually going to occur," said Jim Morgan, director of marketing for FujiFilm. The company had integrated and teleradiology-enabled RIS/PACS solutions on view, including the Synapse PACS and Empiric RIS.
Morgan mentioned that one of the concerns of vendors and their customers is the percentage of these technologies that won't end up being covered by federal funding.
"If only 40 percent of the total cost gets funded, where is the other 60 percent going to come from? There has to be some sort of delta between the two," said Morgan. Until there are concrete answers, vendors are trying to turn out products that increase productivity at a lower cost of ownership for the maximum use of their investments.
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