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Blessing Gets More of a Good Thing:
Information Management Systems Expand the
PACS Backbone
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Since 1875, Blessing Hospital (Quincy,
IL) has worked to provide area residents with the highest
quality medical care possible. Today, Blessing continues to
respond to the changing healthcare needs of the community
- upgrading technology and facilities to provide economical,
high quality medical care. As a result, they have developed
the most complete healthcare system in the region.
In keeping with Blessing Hospital's long history of providing
quality care and the most advanced services available, the
facility has embarked upon an enterprise- wide digital imaging
initiative. This initiative will provide Blessing Hospital
with an integrated cardiology/radiology image and document
management system for their healthcare enterprise that will
make use of the existing PACS.
As part of this initiative, Blessing has purchased ScImage's
Enterprise PACS offering, PICOMEnterprise. When the installation
is complete, two clustered PICOMEnterprise servers linked
to a Blessing supplied SAN will be located at Blessing Hospital's
Data Center providing a highly secure, redundant autofailover
platform.
Since 1875, Blessing Hospital has provided quality care
to Quincy, IL
To assist the facility in meeting its budget, diagnostic review
stations will be built using hardware provided by Blessing
Hospital. Those diagnostic workstations will be able to perform
MPR, oblique slicing and 3-D volume rendering tools using
ScImage's 3-D visualization product via a network-based license.
Additionally, viewing throughout the facility will be accomplished
by accessing the data stored on the PICOMEnterprise servers.
Prior imaging exams that are currently stored on the existing
PACS will also be available via these interfaces, providing
referring physicians with a robust archive of all imaging
exams performed at Blessing Hospital.
The hospital also intends to integrate PICOMEnterprise with
its newly acquired Eclipsys Sunrise clinical information system.
This integration will result in a single point of entry for
all referring physicians to access critical patient data that
until now could only be accessed via multiple systems.
As PACS has
evolved over the past five years ... we have seen a
significant trend towards an integrated Enterprise Wide
Image and Information management and distribution requirement
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In order to lessen the chance for data entry errors, the hospital
intends to integrate the ScImage solution with the existing
HIS to capture demographic data. Additionally, exam orders
will be sent from both the radiology department and the cardiology
department using the new Sunrise XA Clinical Information System
from Eclipsys. This will provide the hospital with modality
Worklist functionality by collecting HL7 ORM messages and
storing those orders within the DICOM Modality Worklist database
on the PICOMEnterprise server. When the exam is complete and
the images have been sent back to the PICOMEnterprise server,
several things will happen. First, a secondary copy is pushed
to the facility's existing PACS. A Study Complete (SC) message
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will also be sent to indicate that
the study has been completed. This will trigger an ORU message
that will notify the Sunrise XA CIS that the study is available
and will give the location via a URL hyperlink within the
Sunrise XA product. By clicking on the hyperlink, anyone with
access privileges at Blessing Hospital can view the patient's
exams right from the PICOMEnterprise server. The result is
an integration that brings all of a patient's imaging data
to a single point of entry within the hospital.
In addition to the integration with the Eclipsys CIS, PICOMEnterprise
will also capture, store and distribute data from the hospital's
existing PACS solution in order to provide a more complete
solution for image acquisition, diagnostic review, short-term
storage, reporting and Web-based distribution utilizing a
single application platform. "We selected ScImage because
they were able to meet our needs for integration," stated
Stacey McGrath, Blessing's IS supervisor, systems and integration.
"Given the nature of clinical workflow in our facility today
and knowing where we need to be tomorrow, we knew we needed
a product that could seamlessly integrate with our current
digital tools quickly and easily. Workflow integration is
the key to a successful digital initiative. ScImage's experience
with integration made the decision easy."
Blessing Hospital's enterprise-wide
PACS includes CIS/EMR integration
Boyd Spoonmore PACS coordinator, Blessing Hospital commented,
"As PACS has evolved over the past five years since our original
Radiology specific PACS deployment, we have seen a significant
trend towards an integrated Enterprise Wide Image and Information
management and distribution requirement, this includes CIS/EMR
integration along with centralizing all clinical images and
information. ScImage was one of the only vendors that could
provide a flexible, broad technology platform for Blessing
Hospital to adapt into our current clinical workflow."
When the hospital completes its digital imaging initiative,
data from Cardiology Imaging Services, Radiology Imaging Services,
and EKG Management will be delivered to the Sunrise product.
PICOMEnterprise will also be used to provide telemedicine
capabilities to designated members of the facility.
"We are pleased that Blessing Hospital has selected ScImage's
Enterprise PACS solution to tie together data coming from
multiple departments," stated Sai P. Raya, founder and CEO
of ScImage. "We believe that Blessing Hospital's digital initiative
will improve overall patient care and are looking forward
to working closely with them to assist in their medical imaging
workflow goals."
"We needed a system that would
fit with our overall goals for workflow," stated Candy Tretter,
director of radiology at Blessing Hospital. "ScImage understood
where we needed to go with our digital initiative. By utilizing
our existing infrastructure we can focus on improving our
workflow instead of learning new software." |
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Customer Focus - Missouri Baptist
“ScImage’s ForeverOnline storage architecture makes backup for disaster recovery and business continuity a much more straightforward process.”
Douglas Sohn - Dir., Cardiac & Vascular Center
Missouri Baptist Medical Center - St. Louis, MO |
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