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i n s i d e c a R d i ac i M ag i n g tors went with a solution that would connect physicians from multiple departments and sites. With Picomenterprise from ScImage, which was already installed in the center’s cardiac catheterization lab, Cardiology IT Manager Martin e. Smith says he consolidated services under one global “cardiology umbrella. I needed one centralized image archive that could allow the physicians to work as a team.” Smith says he has a back-end system with Picomenterprise that can accept data from all cardiac modalities and send those images back to the user the same way they come in. “We now have a centralized image archive that nuclear, echo and cath can use,” he adds “and pediatric echo, oB/GYN and cardiac anesthesia are in the works.” Smith says a key benefit to the ScImage PACS is the ability to consolidate fragmented mini-cardiology PACS into one that is usable by everyone. “our current cardiol- [ Philips Healthcare’s Xcelera enables Duke’s Heart Center to manage the flow of patient information in its echocardiography and cardiac catheterization labs. ] ogy PACS archive allows multiple modalities to choose an analysis/viewing package that best fits their needs, yet combining it in a centralized PACS archive that is easier to manage.” Banner Health in Phoenix, Ariz., a nonprofit healthcare system serving seven states from Alaska to Arizona, also needed a centralized database for its echo and cath labs and found a solution with HeartLab, a cardiology PACS from Agfa HealthCare. (The system is now known as Impax Cardiology.) “We wanted to send both echo and cath imaging to the same regional database,” says Jon Pavlicek, biomedical engineering senior consultant at Banner. He says that the radiology PACS in use did not run cine loops cleanly and measurement tools were very poor, which he says did not allow for a refined report for cardiology. Banner uses HeartLab as the main viewing software for staff and physicians to create reports for patient records. The system “talks” with a radiology PACS from Fujifilm Medical Systems through Bycast, a data management company that focuses on storage grids and management of the data that passes between the two PACS, says Pavlicek. “We are planning to set up a DICoM query and retrieve so HeartLab can query the Fuji system to pull those radiology systems over for viewing,” he adds. scalaBilit y and fleXiBilit y The Care Group, a statewide, Indiana network of approximately 130 cardiologists and primary-care physicians across more than 30 sites, was in the process of expanding its network to gain more market share and quickly realized that the existing cardiology PACS could not handle the expansion. “It was a very single facility system and we needed a system to work across multiple facilities, combined with a good reporting feature,” according to Don Crail, clinical application analyst. Crail says they found what they needed with ProSolv Cardiovascular. “We can put it on whatever hardware we want—even our own custom-built server,” says Crail. The software-based PACS offered 26 Health Imaging & IT | March 2008 HealthImaging.com http://www.emageon.com http://www.emageon.com http://HealthImaging.com

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