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Redefining Cardiovascular Care
One Organization's Approach to Care Delivery is Working
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With heart disease being the leading cause of death in the
United States, it should come as no surprise that organizations
and facilities dedicated to the early detection, prevention
and treatment of cardiac conditions are rapidly growing. MedCath
Corporation is one such growing organization. What partly
began in 1988 as a mobile cath lab service has grown into
a multi-hospital corporation dedicated to cardiovascular care.
In 1994 the organization made an Initial Public Offering in
an effort to expand its operations. Four hospitals and four
years later, the company went private in an effort to refocus
and hone its mission.
In 2001, after the reorganization, the company once again
went public to raise capital to fuel expansion. Today, with
12 MedCath developed facilities devoted to cardiovascular
care and another 18 cardiac cath and nuclear medicine labs
in nearly 20 States, MedCath Corporation has grown considerably
while staying focused on their stated mission of redefining
the way cardiovascular care is delivered.
Dayton Heart Hospital — One of twelve MedCath owned facilities
Dayton Heart Hospital in Dayton, Ohio is just one MedCath
facility that is taking this mission very seriously. Their
decision to deploy a multi-department PACS has enabled them
to change the rules regarding care provision. Where once there
were individual silos of patient images and information inside
individual departments, data now resides in a central location
where it can be accessed by authorized users from anywhere
in the facility. This unified approach came as a result of
evaluating several different digital imaging solutions. As
a result of an exhaustive search, the organization now boasts
a multi-department PACS. The solution allows the hospital
to store patient images collected in radiology and cardiology
in uniquely identifiable patient folders.
"We knew
that the foundation of providing the best possible patient
care revolved around access to all relevant exam data," stated
Mark Cooper, Radiology Team Leader at Dayton Heart Hospital.
"To provide the highest quality care, our physicians need
to see that data in one place," he continued. Dayton Heart
Hospital's leadership, in adopting a multi-department PACS,
has allowed it to redefine and improve cardiovascular care
centered on their unique physician-driven, patient-focused
care model. This 47-bed facility located in Dayton, OH provides
a full array of cardiovascular services. Diagnostic capabilities
include cardiac CT, cardiac cath lab, EP lab, peripheral angiography,
nuclear medicine stress testing, and cardiovascular ultrasound
among others.
While their multi-department approach isn't necessarily unique;
Dayton Heart Hospital stands apart from their competition
with all exam information, both radiology and cardiology,
generated within each department available when and where
the caregiver needs it. This means that radiologists, cardiologists
and surgeons can access the exam specific data and adjust
the care strategy to suit the patient's exact needs.
Once upon a time the market demanded disparate solutions for
multiple departments. Slowly, purchasers of PACS have begun
to see the bigger picture-that patient images and related
data gathered under a single login leads to better patient
care. As part of their research into multi-department PACS,
Mr. Cooper's team identified ScImage as the company that could
provide Dayton Heart Hospital with a solution that would meet
their needs. ScImage worked closely with the radiology department,
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the cardiology department and the surgical staff to accomplish
the task of information exchange by changing the rules regarding
medical imaging.
Since 1993, ScImage's innovative team has relentlessly changed
the rules regarding medical imaging. A leader in the cardiac
imaging space since the release of their NetraMD product (used
for coronary calcium scoring) in the late 1980s, ScImage also
introduced the first commercial digital cine angiography solution.
As the company progressed and grew, they identified the need
for a more comprehensive solution-one that could address the
workflow of multiple departments. Today ScImage boasts the
only multi-department solution that includes clinical applications
and utilities for ECG management, echo workflow, cardiac cath
workflow, radiology workflow and clinical information exchange.
The product suite called PicomEnterprise, also includes a
fully integrated Radiology Information System for scheduling,
billing and reporting and can integrate with industry recognized
leading solutions for digital mammography and computer aided
detection products.
By adopting the PicomEnterprise solution at Dayton Heart Hospital
for radiology and cardiology, Mr. Cooper's team in the radiology
department has benefited from a solution that allows them
access to images from both inside and outside the facility.
The web-server based PicomEnterprise product gives them full
fidelity teleradiology capabilities from their office, home
or from the road while traveling.
"The main advantage
of ScImage PACS is exam distribution. Instead of the clinician
coming to the radiology department, we can now take the radiology
department to the clinician. Since this system is web-based,
it gives us a huge advantage as we read exams both on and
off site. Another major advantage is the digital patient folder
that allows radiologists and clinicians to have access not
only to the current study but also to other related exams,"
states Dr. Cherukuri, Medical Director of Radiology at Dayton
Heart Hospital.
Dayton Heart Hospital Physician
Dr. David Joffe and staff
The cardiology team has seen similar benefits because various
types of exam data are now available from the same patient
worklist. "Immediate access any place in the world is the
best part of this PACS," states Dr. David Joffe, a cardiologist
and Dayton Heart Hospital's Medical Director. "Better patient
care is the result and the patients absolutely love it. A
former, now retired partner of our group stopped by the office
the other day and saw the ScImage PACS. He said 'Truly 21st
century medicine.'"
The surgical group is also greatly benefiting from being able
to access all relevant data from a single location. This is
especially helpful during surgical planning or even while
the surgeon is performing the procedure. "The best part of
the ScImage PACS is the convenience," comments Dr. Rank, one
of Dayton Heart Hospital's cardiothoracic surgeons. "It is
wonderful in the OR and extremely helpful in the office and
soon I will be using it at home."
According to Mark Cooper, "Deploying ScImage's multi-department
PACS to handle all of the imaging needs of the facility has
allowed us to redefine cardiovascular care at Dayton Heart
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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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