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Cardiovascular Business: Are there differences between cardiology and radiology needs? BOSCO: one of the obvious differences is the need for prior exam results. Cardiologists tend to live in the here and now when it comes to images. although they occasionally refer back to a prior exam for comparison, usually the current images matter most. The availability of prior exams is much more important to radiologists, even when they are reviewing a case performed that day. The radiologist almost always pulls all prior exams dating back one year (approximately 70 to 80 percent of the time). In most cases, a radiologist pulls prior exams dating back at least five years. Consequently, the amount of data and images being transported across the wide-area network is vastly different for radiologists and cardiologists. the enterprise approach? BOSCO: The primary benefits are shared deployment costs, reduced operational maintenance, decreased support costs and improvements to the quality of care for both referring and attending physicians. nS-LIJ is leading the way down the path of best care practices in our region. We are excited by the fact that we can extend access to a patient’s records from behind a single department’s walls…to across our network of hospitals and other facilities, and hopefully, one day beyond our health system. enterprise solution, we found a partner that meets our needs in the following ways: Ȃ best-in-class technology solutions Ȃ Competitive price point Ȃ experienced support personnel Ȃ reduced complexity Ȃ Disaster recovery Ȃ High availability Ȃ Active monitoring with remote administration Ȃ Mirroring capabilities Ȃ excellent scalability an enterprise emC storage solution allows us to effectively manage disparate data sources (i.e., exchange, HIS, PaCS, etc.) while maintaining data integrity and availability. emC allows us to scale and grow as an enterprise as our business requires. Cardiovascular Business: What are the primary benefits of Cardiovascular Business: What factors did NS-LIJ take Webcasts.CardiovascularBusiness.com Watch clinical and IT experts from South Shore Hospital and North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System provide insight into the implementation of Cardiology PACS & CVIS within their facilities and address questions from participants inquiring further about the workflow, productivity and business advantages of a cardiology PACS, the necessary IT requirements and remote access for physicians. into account when deploying EMC as a storage vendor? BOSCO: multiple factors pointed to emC as the ideal partner for our storage solution when it came to the enterprise imaging system. for starters, emC and Ge (our PaCS provider) are partners, so emC brings a wealth of experience with the Centricity PaCS application. Performance and price of various solutions are key in the decision-making process, but we try to look beyond hardware and establish a true partnership with our vendors. We want them to understand our environment and goals. We want them to bring strategic solutions to us. emC shares this model. finally, nS-LIJ uses emC as its enterprise storage system (beyond our imaging needs) in our data center. Cardiovascular Business: What are the advantages of using the same vendor for storage and data center? BOSCO: By working with a vendor that provides us with an CardiovascularBusiness.com Cardiology PACS & CVIS: Implementing Digital Strategies 9 http://Webcasts.CardiovascularBusiness.com http://www.CardiovascularBusiness.com

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