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Collaborative Medicine Wins Through Multi-Department
Use of Enterprise PACS
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Situated near the shores of Lake
of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri, Lake of the Ozarks
General Hospital (as it was known in 1978 when it first opened
its doors) has grown over the past 25 years to become a state-of-the-art
medical facility. Known now as Lake Regional Health System,
the facility supports a full range of medical and surgical
services, including complete cardiovascular care. Additionally,
because of the increased summer population, Lake Regional
also has one of the state's busiest emergency departments.
In keeping with the tradition of the community-minded visionaries
who founded the hospital, Lake Regional continues to innovate
and adopt new technologies. Today, Lake Regional is one of
only a handful of medical centers in the country that is collecting,
storing and distributing data from multiple departments (primarily
cardiology and radiology) in electronic format.
Early this year, Lake Regional purchased ScImage's PICOM Solution.
The product gives the cardiac and radiology services at Lake
Regional the ability to review, distribute and archive patient
studies, including reports and procedure data along with patient
demographic data using ScImage's Web-based Electronic Patient
Folder (EPF). The EPF allows authorized users to securely
access patient data stored in uniquely identified individual
EPFs on the PICOMEnterprise server.
Lake Regional Health System, Osage Beach, MO
Overall, the PICOM Solution has given physicians at Lake Regional
the tools they need to practice collaborative medicine and
the hospital a means for reducing capital expenditures, improving
workflow efficiency and providing the flexibility to integrate
data from imaging studies with data from patient procedures
from multiple departments in the hospital.
Cardiologists and referring physicians can now access a variety
of data generated in the cardiac services department and stored
on ScImage's PICOMEnterprise server from the lab, their office
and even from home. This includes cardiac stress tests and
hemodynamic information from the cath lab's hemodynamic monitoring
system, as well as reporting for the cardiac cath and echo
labs. Soon, the physicians will be able to view EKG waveforms
and reporting from vascular procedures. All of this data is
or will be linked to the patient's medical record number and
made available to authorized attending and referring physicians.
| "Physicians
can now review imaging and non-imaging studies alongside
hemo data and stress results. Efficiency will improve
further when viewing EKG reports and vascular reporting
become available." |
Cath lab manager Connie Rugen sees the benefits everyday.
"Our cardiology department is logically integrated to enhance
workflow for surgeons and cathing physicians. They have been
anticipating an easy way to access patient information from
any location, and are pleased with ScImage's solution. Physicians
can now review imaging and non-imaging studies alongside hemo
data and stress results. Efficiency will improve further when
viewing EKG reports and vascular reporting become available."
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The PICOM Solution is also fully
integrated into the radiology department. Images pertaining
to all digital radiology modalities are being captured and
stored in the EPFs of the PICOMEnterprise server and made
available enterprise-wide. Robust 2-D and 3-D viewing tools
allow physicians to read cases at the hospital and by using
PICOMEnterprise's built-in telemedicine functionality, they
are also accessing studies remotely. "Being able to roll out
of bed and quickly review an ED case gives me the opportunity
to determine whether I need to get to [the] hospital immediately
or if I can get [a] few more hours of sleep," stated one of
Lake Regional's on-call radiologists. To supplement on-call
reading, PICOMEnterprise's intelligent scheduled routing services
are automatically routing images to a remote teleradiology
group for nighttime reading.
Integration was a key element in the decision to adopt the
PICOM Solution. In addition to serving the needs of the imaging
intensive departments, ScImage also provided a means for managing
workflow and patient scheduling via an HL7 interface to the
hospital's Meditech patient registration and order messaging
system. The integration gives the hospital a way to reduce
data entry errors by capturing patient demographics that have
previously been entered. In addition, procedure ordering and
patient information are pushed to ScImage's scheduling product
PicomScheduler. The scheduling software gives both departments
a means for tracking patient procedures and also sends "order
completed" messages back to the Meditech system. Integrating
with the existing solution gives the hospital the opportunity
to reduce capital expenditure costs and increase workflow
efficiency at the same time.
"ScImage seamlessly interfaced their PICOMEnterprise solution
to our different point-of-care clinical systems and imaging
modalities including CT, ultrasound, MRI, nuclear medicine,
cardiac cath and echo," according to Steve Grotewiel, Director
of Medical Imaging. "Now, physicians at Lake Regional have
near real time remote access to procedural images, reports
and other clinical information. Getting clinical information
into the hands of every caregiver at Lake Regional Health
System is a top priority for the facility and for me personally.
The result is that physicians have the right tools to make
the best decisions when treating patients. We evaluated many
systems but went with ScImage because they were able to provide
us with a cost effective, integrated solution."
About Lake
Regional Health System Lake Regional Health
System supports medical and surgical services in orthopedics,
complete cardiovascular care reconstructive surgery,
obstetrics and gynecology, outpatient services, community
health education and prevention. Credentialed by the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations,
Lake Regional offers high-tech medical diagnostics and
treatment, coupled with high-touch patient care. Nearly
1,000 employees support the medical expertise of 70-plus
full-time medical staff. With a 100,000 square foot
expansion in 1999 - larger than the facility's original
structure - the 140- bed facility now includes a 12-bed
observation unit, an 18-bed intensive care unit, rehab
therapies, cardiac rehabilitation, an additional cardiac
catheterization lab, an oncology suite, physician offices,
an expanded outpatient surgery area and a chapel. Lake
Regional also features a network of clinics, pharmacies
and rehabilitation services located throughout the region.
The organization's vision is to transition from a primary/secondary
hospital into a regional, tertiary care medical center
and related clinical services.
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Customer Focus - Lake Regional
“We went with ScImage because they were able to provide us with a cost effective, integrated solution.
Steve Grotewiel - Director of Medical Imaging
Lake Regional Health Systems - Osage Beach, MO |
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