Health Imaging & IT – Integrating RIS/PACS for the Enterprise - (Page 6) case study: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, N.Y. by l I s a F r at t Kate lynch, radiology IT & PACS manager, and Peter Kijewski, Phd, attending physicist and PACS project director, in the radiology department library at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center in New York City. Singular benefits Integrated RIS/PACS delivers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City epitomizes the large-scale filmless radiology enterprise. The cancer center was an early PACS adopter and first deployed digital image management in 1998. Today, the center completes more than 305,500 imaging studies annually at its five main locations and is virtually filmless. Nearly 150 radiologists read images for Memorial Sloan-Kettering. PACS pervades the enterprise. One hundred imaging systems feed images into the PACS. The center houses about 70 diagnostic radiology workstations and 400 PACS workstations. Plus, nearly 9,000 personal computers are equipped with web-viewing capabilities. All told, PACS represents a tremendous IT maintenance and management responsibility for this enterprise focused on cancer diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. 6 Integrating RIS/PACS for the Enterprise November 2007
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