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Ü norton healthcare louiSville, ky. nortonhealthcare.com This not-for-profit system includes four hospitals in Louisville, 10 immediate-care centers, 8,000 employees, 280 employed medical providers at approximately 50 locations and 2,000 total physicians on its medical staff. For its radiological services, the 1,857-bed system offers CT, digital mammography, fluoroscopy, interventional, MRI, nuclear imaging, ultrasound and x-ray. As a result of its enterprise-wide PACS implementation and the digitization of older films, Norton employees can access images from one hospital or imaging center across its network, and the implementation of voice recognition software has sped the delivery of patient information. 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 2,100 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 600,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 26% –30 % annual increase in digital procedures 4,000 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 28 min. radiology turn-around time 2 hours cardiology turn-around time 30 min. Emergency turn-around time 81% –8% annual data growth 41. TB long-term data archive Ü ohiohealth columBuS, ohio ohiohealth.com This family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals and healthcare organizations serve patients in central Ohio. The 2,000-bed health system employs approximately 14,000 individuals throughout the six hospitals in the OhioHealth network. Across four of its hospitals, the health system offers breast biopsy (stereotactic and ultrasound-guided), CT, digital mammography (with CAD), fluoroscopy, interventional radiology, MRI, nuclear medicine, peripheral vascular lab, PET, stress testing and x-ray. OhioHealth has saved more than $1.25 million since it first adopted PACS in May 2005, and increased its imaging study volumes by 11.7 percent. Information systems that share images with PACS CVIS, Dental, Emergency, Endoscopy/Gastroenterology, Laboratory/Pathology, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Orthopedics, Surgery/OR, Teleradiology and Vascular 2,200 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 680,400 annual imaging procedures 91% –9% digital imaging systems procedures 6% –10 % annual increase in digital procedures 6,700 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 6 hours radiology turn-around time 8 hours cardiology turn-around time hours Emergency turn-around time 6% –10 % annual data growth 61. TB long-term data archive Ü penn State university milton S. hershey medical center herShey, pa. pennstatehershey.org This 500-bed academic medical center, along with Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, has more than 7,400 employees, 355 volunteers and the College of Medicine enrolls more than 600 students annually. During 2007, Penn State Hershey Medical Center admitted more than 27,500 inpatients, 780,000 outpatients and performed more than 23,000 surgical procedures. The adoption of digital imaging saved the medical center $1 million in film, along with time saved for 700 residents, who no longer had to spend approximately two hours daily looking for film. Information systems that share images with PACS CVIS, Critical Care/ICU/CCU, Dental, Emergency, Endoscopy/Gastroenterology, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Radiation Therapy, RIS, Surgery/OR, Teleradiology and Vascular 1,400 Physicians in network 96% –100 % Physicians in network with image access 30,000 annual imaging procedures 96% –100 % digital imaging systems procedures 6% –10 % annual increase in digital procedures 29,000 Monthly e-radiology reports viewed 8 hours radiology turn-around time 48 hours cardiology turn-around time 6 hours Emergency turn-around time 31% –3% annual data growth 32 TB long-term data archive Healthimaging.com august 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 17 http://nortonhealthcare.com http://ohiohealth.com http://pennstatehershey.org http://Healthimaging.com

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