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X-ray: Medicine enters more transparent window of imaging
An X-ray picture on a monitor: While traditionally patients carried big, stiff envelopes containing their x-rays to specialists, doctors can now send them digitally. Photo/REUTERS
Posted Thursday, December 10 2009 at 00:00
Skilled manpower
But going digital has its challenges beyond the cost factor: skilled man power to manage the transition from analogue.
Dr Wilson Aruasa of Moi Referral told Business Daily that since technology is evolving by the day, it is not taught in medical schools, leaving the burden to hospitals that must invest in staff growth and development inflating tits training budget.
But the biggest benefit of going digital is the back-up system, since images are stored electronically reducing chances of loss or longer retrieval.
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