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Don't Panic: An RT's Guide to PACS Downtime
Location & Dates
- Jan 18, 2024 | 6-7:30pm CST
- Jan 18, 2024 | 6-7:30pm CST
All webinars are held in Central Time, see Time Zone Map Below
Overview
About this Webinar
PACS is one of the most important systems of patient care in healthcare. Like any IT system, there will be system failures. This webinar discusses the resilience built into PACS by using alternate workflows, redundancy, and disaster recovery. With properly prepared technologists who are informed and trained in downtime procedures, this can go smoothly, and no need to panic.
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Understand common PACS downtime types and impact
- Understand what is meant by redundancy, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability.
- Describe how to access the backup systems
- Understand how technologists can use downtime procedures effectively
- Perform basic troubleshooting on various parts of the PACS
Schedule
What is PACS Downtime
- Causes of downtime
- Full, partial, or individual system failures
- Scheduled downtime
- Unscheduled downtime
- Factors for PACS Resilience and ability to recover
- System redundancy or extra equipment
- Facility back-up system
- Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity vs. High Availability
Downtime procedures
- Keep patient care workflow moving
- Level of Availability ranking for severity and action
- System-specific downtime procedures (PACS, Dictation, RIS, etc.)
- Technologist part in downtime procedures
- Troubleshooting scenarios
- User level
- Device level
- System level
Audience
- Radiologic Technologists
- Medical Imaging Specialists
- Educators
- Vendor Personnel
- Imaging professionals who want to understand the challenging world of imaging informatics
Faculty
Name
Ronald Gilbert, MS, RT(R), CIIP
Manager of Enterprise Imaging and Informatics
11 Hospital Locations
WellStar Healthcare System
Atlanta, GA
Credits
ASRT Pending
Category A/A+ CE credit is pending approval by the ASRT. An application for 1.5 hours of credit for radiologic technologists recognized by the ARRT and various licensure states has been filed.
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