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Ü children’s health System Birmingham, al a. chsys.org This private, not-for-profit hospital provides pediatric services at 16 locations in Alabama through outpatient and social services centers. The flagship Children’s Hospital is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Alabama School of Medicine. In its first year of digital imaging and image and data management adoption, the 275-bed hospital decreased film costs by $250,000. Due to the installation of voice recognition, report turn-around time has decreased from 24 hours to 3.5 hours. In 2008, the facility decreased transcription costs by $175,000, and has automated its peer-review process. Information systems that share images with PACS Critical Care/ICU, Emergency, Nuclear Medicine, Orthopedics, RIS and Surgery/OR. 21 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 104,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 36% –40 % annual increase in digital procedures 8,700 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 4 hours radiology turn-around time Not applicable 6 hours Emergency turn-around time 46% –0 % annual data growth 12 TB long-term data archive cardiology turn-around time Ü children’s hospital Boston BoSton, maSS. childrenshospital.org This 397-bed pediatric healthcare center records approximately 22,600 inpatient admissions annually. The Children’s Hospital clinical staff includes approximately 963 physicians, as well as 897 residents and fellows and 5,200 additional employees. Coupled with speech recognition, PACS adoption has allowed the hospital to reduce report turn-around times from more than two days to less than a day. Since image storage has gone electronic, image-viewing software is installed on every computer (more than 7,000), allowing for images to be viewed from anywhere in the hospital. Information systems that share images with PACS CPOE, EHR/EMR, Emergency, HIS, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Therapy, RIS and Vascular 1,000 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 180,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 0 % –% annual increase in digital procedures 2,000 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 13 hours radiology turn-around time 10 hours cardiology turn-around time 13 hours Emergency turn-around time 6% –10 % annual data growth -60 TB long-term data archive Ü clarian health partners inDianapoliS, inD. clarian.com In 1997, Methodist, Indiana University and Riley hospitals united to form the not-for-profit Clarian Health Partners, serving Indiana and the Midwest. Clarian has nearly 12,000 employees at its Indianapolis hospitals, and either owns or is affiliated with 20 hospitals and health centers throughout Indiana. Over the past five years, the 1,655-bed health system has experienced a decline in film costs from $7 million to $100,000 annually since the introduction of digital imaging/digital image and data management. Also, film file staff has been reduced by 70 percent. Information systems that share images with PACS CVIS, Critical Care/ICU/CCU, EHR/EMR, Emergency, Endoscopy/Gastroenterology, HIS, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Radiation Therapy, RIS, Surgery/OR, Teleradiology and Vascular 8,200 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 70,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 0 % –% annual increase in digital procedures 62,000 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 4 hours radiology turn-around time 8 hours cardiology turn-around time 30 min. Emergency turn-around time 6% –10 % annual data growth 110 TB long-term data archive Healthimaging.com august 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 13 http://www.chsys.org http://childrenshospital.org http://clarian.com http://Healthimaging.com

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