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Innovation Con dence Life Powerful Tools at Your Fingertips [ Columbia Orthopedic Group moved into this new facility in Columbia., Mo., in April. ] system marks his or her arrival, and sends the name to the various modalities, whether or not the patient needs a film,” he says. “So, we filter all the patients each day to every modality, and just select which patients need a film that day from the device itself.” While COG cannot currently pull their PACS images into their EMR because they are made by separate vendors, Epperson says that the two vendors, Viztek and MED3000, are working to integrate the two systems to accomplish this next phase of interfacing. “We will eventually end up with the x-ray report and the MR report in both the PACS and the EMR. The URL link will appear in the EMR, so the user can click and bring up the patient’s PACS images. Both vendors have done it before. They don’t foresee it causing any problems.” If this plan comes to fruition, Walker notes that it will reduce the number of clicks from four to one. The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, which completes approximately 100,000 imaging studies annually, has interfaced its Sectra Orthopedic PACS with its SRS Software practice management software via an HL7 interface, according to Director of IT Jerry Kruc. The facility also is able to pull up PACS images on its SRS Software document management solution. Each of Rothman’s eight centers also can now access HL7 data feeds from third-party vendors, which is convenient for scheduling, Kruc says. “Without this capability, the technologists would have to manually input each patient name, demographics and study type. As long as the third-party images are DICOM, we can pull them into our system,” Kruc says. Bennett notes that the ScImage PACS connects with their NextGen EMR. “Many of our physicians easily toggle between the two programs. Physicians can look at PACS studies through the EMR, but the images do not reside in the EMR,” he says. Also, a connection with their practice management software allows access to all demographic information within PACS, “so we’re not re-entering information,” he notes. At EDDA, we build advanced clinical applications A, A, we cal applications at at to bring a new ge g ge generation of interactive eneration decision aid solutions for your needs in early detection, diagnosis and treatment. • • • • • Intuitive & e cient Lesion speci c enhancement & analysis Advanced 3D/4D visualization Volumetric segmentation, editing & quanti cation Enterprise-wide solution for seamless work ow in PACS IQQA®-Chest CAD for DR/CR PACS in the oR Many of Rothman’s 44 physicians often access its Sectra PACS images in the two operating rooms that are remotely connected at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Nazareth Hospital, both located in Philadelphia. This feature frees the surgeons from having to carry film into the OR, Kruc notes. Physicians access PACS remotely, having exactly the features available as they do in-house. “If there is only one person using the DX [workstation within the clinic], and multiple physicians using HealthImaging.com health imaging and it - half page Oct 2008.indd 1 IQQA®-Liver for multi-phase contrast CT www.edda-tech.com • 609-919-9889 December 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 27 11/5/08 12:17:26 AM http://www.edda-tech.com http://www.edda-tech.com http://www.HealthImaging.com

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