For patients

• Easier, secure access to their own health and care information
• Faster, safer diagnosis and treatment
• Electronically available images and results will be to help support health care providers in making diagnosis and treatment decisions
• Faster, easier, more convenient way to make hospital appointments

For Health Care Providers

• An integrated RIS/PACS system eliminates the emphasis on where a test is performed because test results can be shared electronically with other facilities, making better use of diagnostic imaging resources
• Radiologists, referring physicians and clinicians will have access to a longitudinal (over time) view of a patient's radiology history
• Health care providers will have timely access to a patient's relevant prior images and reports
• Improved image quality and viewing capability
• Images available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Simultaneous image viewing across multiple sites and locations
• Quality images for teaching and presentation

For Administrators

• Reduced costs related to managing film and duplicating tests because of lack of access to relevant priors, or lost films
• Streamlined workflow, including patient registration, modality worklists, transcription, reporting, and billing
• Improved regional reporting of procedures, workload units and other management information
• Electronic patient scheduling for exams and electronic scheduling of resources, such as radiologists and radiation technologists