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first step was to involve stakeholders from every area that would be touched by the new PACS product: IT, radiologists, technologists, scheduling, reception, billing and administration. As part of its migration strategy, RMI took these representatives to a one-week training session on the Amicas system prior to its implementation. “This is a key element to the successful adoption of a new technology,” he says. “Involving stakeholders early, and often, create champions of the project in each group.” Carrie A. Berlin, RIS and PACS director for RMI, noted that the migration of data from the old system to PACS was a challenge for the group. “The integrity of the data that were being migrated definitely slowed the process,” she notes. “We were relying on the technologists to manually enter the data in our old PACS and, as you can imagine, there were a lot of errors.” The practice utilized the services of DeJarnette Research Systems to assist in the data migration, Berlin says. “We migrated approximately 66,000 studies and we began migrating only four months in advance,” she says. “We were approximately 60 percent done at go live. We would have been further along, but had a lot of data that needed to be cleaned up manually. We were fortunate that DeJarnette provided us with a QC tool that allowed us to quickly fix and migrate any study needed by a radiologist that had not yet migrated.” Berlin advises that a practice contemplating a PACS migration candidly assess its data migration task as part of project. Looking back on her experience, she notes that she would have started the process at least a couple months earlier. RMI, like many practices, is accelerating the return on investment of its PACS by uncovering and developing opportunities to transform the systems from cost centers to profit centers. “The way medicine is being practiced is being changed by the digitization of radiology; as radiologists, this digitization has allowed us to get closer to our referring-physician customers,” Hicks says. “For example, we’re now in the offices of our referring physicians and linking them to us with our PACS. It allows them to tie their radiography equipment right to our PACS and send their images into our centers. It also allows, for example, a surgeon in the operating room to look at my images instantaneously and discuss them with me in real time.” Hicks advises that a practice considering its PACS needs be brutally honest about its REVOLUTIONIZING DISK BURNING AND PRINTING AT THE MODALITY IDE Burn and label streaming video or DICOM images to disk all in one compact portable unit. This breakthrough solution eliminates the need for a large, expensive and centralized system for media production and occupies the same space as a standard video tape recorder. Gone are the concerns of a burned disk not meeting HIPAA compliance with inadequate or incomplete labeling. Keep the disk production at the modality and in your hand immediately following the procedure. —Available in two versions to meet your needs MDR g c Scribin (Electroni om With ESP ) Import data fr t a cess d prin Pro disks an CS unlabeled or send to PA new disk INS VIDEO RP MDR EXPRESS RP • Capture high-resolution streaming video convert to DICOM and record to DVD, CD or USB media and send to PACS • Ideal for use with c-arms, x-ray ﬂuorography, angiography, ultrasound, endoscopy and vascular imaging systems • Compatible with almost all video-based systems • Transfer DICOM images from any modality directly to CD, DVD or USB • Ideal for use with CR, DR and digital mammography • Compatible with any DICOM modality 1-866-342-6629 Ext: 2 • sales@naitechproducts.com 1-2PageHI & IT.indd 1 HealthImaging.com 12/10/08 7:55:44 27 January 2009 | Health Imaging & ITPM www.naitechproducts.com http://www.naitechproducts.com http://www.HealthImaging.com

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