For groups doing only teleradiology or other outside reads, RIS may not best meet your needs.

A growing number of practitioners are contemplating life without a RIS. It’s not that these systems have outlived their usefulness, but for teleradiology outfits and imaging centers that perform only outside reads, they aren’t essential. In fact, says Isaac Aronov, head of development for Integrated Document Solutions (IDS), for a facility that reads images from multiple sites, using a RIS to coordinate that data is extremely complex.

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