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2008’s Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities Not surprisingly for a list of Top Connected Facilities, 80 percent This enables a care team to effectively diagnose, treat and educate report that 96 to 100 percent of imaging studies are completed on patients more quickly and effectively. digital imaging systems (the remaining 20 percent report 91 to 95 Technology investment is significant, with the majority of the Top percent). Ninety-six percent of the winners are 90 to 100 percent Connected facilities using CPOE (76 percent), structured reporting filmless. Data growth is surging, too, with a quarter of the winners (84 percent) and having wireless access through the hospital or seeing 6 to 10 percent growth in the last year. Some 16 percent have healthcare organization (88 percent). All of the facilities utilize CT, seen data increase 21 to 25 percent. Only two facilities report data MRI, ultrasound and digital R&F systems. Following closely behind growth under 5 percent. Cleveland Clinic reports the most data in its with 96 percent utilization rates across the winners are CR, C-arms, long-term archive—1 petabyte! while 92 percent have echocardiography and DR. Eighty percent Imaging procedure growth for half of the winners is pacing at 6 to have installed full-field digital mammography systems, while 40 10 percent, with about a quarter of the Top 25 posting growth under percent have CR-based mammography. Three-quarters of the facili5 percent. Report turn-around times are impressive too, with the ties utilize SPECT or PET, while PET/CT is installed at 84 percent of fastest radiology reports ready in 20 minutes at Imaging Healthcare the Top Connected sites and 40 percent own SPECT/CT as well. Specialists in San Diego (28 minutes at Norton Healthcare in LouisInformation system deployment is, of course, robust. Some 96 ville, Ky.). The fastest cardiology report turn-around time is 21 minpercent of the Top Connected facilities have an EMR. Most of the utes at the University of Pittsburgh, while ER reports are ready in 15 Top 25 have a hospital information system (92 percent), CVIS (80 minutes at Brigham& Women’s in Boston (20 minutes across town at percent), surgery information system (84 percent), lab information Mass General Hospital and the same at Alegent Health in Omaha). system (80 percent) and ICU information system (68 percent). In the We congratulate each of this year’s winners—you are an inspiraradiology image and information realm, 100 percent read electronic tion to all! images including 84 percent that utilize standalone-PACS, 80 percent have a RIS and 60 percent utilize a paired RIS/ PACS solution. Interestingly, 96 percent utilize enterprise-wide PACS or RIS/PACS. This year’s online nominations were accepted from May 19th through June So which department IT systems are integrated with 24th. Some 525 healthcare facilities were represented in the balloting. PACS? Nuclear medicine, cardiology, teleradiology, ER, The ballot included 45 questions. Among the factors differentiating the orthopedics, vascular, OR, oncology, RIS, radiation winners are the number of modalities, departments and information therapy and critical care all see more than 80 percent systems that share digital images and reports, percentage of facility that is integration across the 25 facilities. One area ripe for ﬁlmless, percentage of digital procedures, the ability of physicians to access future integration with PACS is laboratory and patholelectronic images and reports, and cost savings based on efﬁciencies ogy information systems—with 71 percent of the Top driven by integrating digital technologies. Connected facilities reporting they’ve installed these systems but they don’t yet interface with PACS. the ﬁne print Ü alegent health System omaha, neB. alegent.com This not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa operates nine acute-care hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, and employs 1,600 physicians and 9,000 staff. Alegent offers women’s and children’s services, primary care, wellness counseling, and senior care as well as cardiovascular services, orthopedics, oncology, physical rehabilitation and behavioral health. Its imaging facilities offer digital technology for diagnostic and interventional radiology and cardiology. Alegent, sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives and Immanuel Health Systems, has saved $500,000 a year from its digital imaging/digital image and data management adoption. Information systems that share images with PACS CVIS, Critical Care/ICU/CCU, Dental, EHR/EMR, Emergency Endoscopy/Gastroenterology, HIS, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Orthopedics, Radiation Therapy, RIS, Surgery/OR, Teleradiology and Vascular 1,600 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 300,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 6% –10 % annual increase in digital procedures 800,000 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 4 hours radiology turn-around time 2 hours cardiology turn-around time 20 min. Emergency turn-around time 16% –20 % annual data growth 0 TB long-term data archive 10 Health Imaging & IT | august 2008 Healthimaging.com http://alegent.com http://Healthimaging.com

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