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Data Migration Key to Leading Heart Hospital’s
Image and Information Management System Selection
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Missouri Baptist Medical Center,
a 489-bed hospital in St. Louis, Missouri and a member of
BJC HealthCare, has been providing world-class services to
its patients since its founding in 1884.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis
Long recognized as a leader in cardiac services, Missouri
Baptist Medical Center received the inaugural American Hospital
Quest for Quality Prize in 2002 from the American Hospital
Association for its leadership and innovation in patient care
quality, safety and commitment. This commitment to excellence
is prevalent throughout the entire organization. Recently,
Missouri Baptist began a large construction project to expand
and upgrade its heart hospital within the existing medical
center structure. The plan includes 40,000 square feet of
new construction/renovation, including the following:
• two additional cath lab rooms;
• a 14-bed cath lab prep and hold unit;
• a second EP lab;
• a 10-bed post-surgical cardiovascular recovery unit;
• a 6,000-square-foot cardiovascular diagnostics suite;
• an endovascular OR suite;
• and new office space within the center for the hospital's
four cardiothoracic surgeons - Nicholas Kouchoukos, MD;
Peter Murphy, MD; Michael Murphy, MD; and Michael Mauney,
MD.
As part of the project, the hospital has upgraded its existing
AngioCOMM image and information management and distribution
solution. The system, designed by ScImage of Los Altos, Calif.,
has served the hospital well since it was first installed
in 1998. However, the demands of modern medicine and significant
advances in technology led the hospital to modernize the system
using ScImage's latest image and information archive and distribution
solution, PICOMEnterprise.
PICOMEnterprise gives Missouri Baptist Cardiac & Vascular
Center the ability to review, distribute and archive patient
studies, including reports and procedure data along with patient
demographic information using ScImage's web-enabled Electronic
Patient Folder (EPF). The EPF allows authorized users to securely
access patient data stored in uniquely identified individual
electronic patient folders on the PICOMEnterprise server,
which is the backbone of the PICOM Solution.
Data migration was a key concern and one of the reasons why
the Missouri Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Center elected to
upgrade to PICOMEnterprise. Because they provided a seamless
upgrade path for previously archived studies, the decision to choose ScImage again
was an easy one. More than 18,000 exams currently stored on
magneto optical disk will be migrated and converted, storing
them on a large storage device using ForeverOnline.
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ForeverOnline is a low-cost, high-availability solution that
employs intelligent image routing to serve high-volume, centralized
reading environments. This configuration of PICOMEnterprise
combines a powerful multi-processor server with a highly scalable
storage solution. It eliminates the wait for image retrieval
by keeping everything online, thereby increasing productivity
in heavy workload environments and eliminating the need for
a mechanical jukebox. PICOMEnterprise will house the hospital's
archived and future studies and make the data available to
physicians both inside and outside the facility using the
latest security protocols.
Once the upgrade is complete, cardiologists and referring
physicians will have immediate access to a variety of data,
images and reports generated by the Missouri Baptist Cardiac
& Vascular Center. This includes hemodynamic information from
the physiological monitoring systems as well as echocardiogram
images/reports and cardiac stress test reports. This data
will be linked to the patient medical record number and made
available to authorized attending and referring physicians
from the lab, their private offices or even their homes.
A cath lab at Missouri Baptist Medical
Center
"We are excited to see the first steps of our heart hospital
upgrade," said Douglas Sohn, director of the Missouri Baptist
Cardiac & Vascular Center. "The new facilities are designed
with the needs of the patient and efficiencies for our physicians
as the top priorities. The jukebox storage system we have
used for years is overflowing and cannot keep up with current
demand, including the need for immediate access to study information.
Eliminating the mechanical storage device is going to reduce
wait times for both physicians and patients.
"In
addition,migrating our data to ScImage's ForeverOnline storage
architecture will also support our disaster recovery plan,"
Sohn continued. "We will no longer be responsible for hundreds
of MODs. Instead, we will have a single archive, which will
make backup for disaster recovery and business continuity
a much more straightforward process."
Simultaneous to the data migration, a new echocardiography
reporting solution will be put in place. The goal is to reduce
the turnaround time from the completion of a study to availability
of the final report. This translates into higher throughput
for the department and shorter wait times for study results
- two very important factors for this award-winning facility.
Overall, upgrading to PICOMEnterprise is giving physicians
at Missouri Baptist Medical Center the tools they need to
practice collaborative medicine and the hospital a means for
eliminating its reliance on outdated technology. The result
is improved efficiency, a more patient-centered environment
and a heart hospital within a hospital that positions the
Missouri Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Center for the future.
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Customer Focus - CardioVascular Assoc.
“One of the key considerations in our decision to go with ScImage was their scaleable web-based architecture."
Eric Two Bears - Chief Information Officer
CardioVascular Associates - Birmingham, AL |
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