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PACS Project Overview

PACS Project Overview. December 5, 2006 CIS Ops. What Is PACS?.

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PACS Project Overview

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  1. PACS Project Overview December 5, 2006 CIS Ops

  2. What Is PACS? PACS stands for Picture Archiving and Communication System. This new system will allow users to acquire, transmit, store, retrieve and modify digital images taken from modalities in Radiology Departments throughout Group Health Cooperative.

  3. Who Will Be Affected?

  4. Anticipated Benefits of PACS • Real-time availability of images and reports. • Concurrent access to images by multiple users. • Reduction in number of lost films. • Improved and expedited communication between Providers and Radiologists. • Direct access to PACS stored images via EpicCare Chart Review.

  5. Enterprise-Wide Imaging Strategy • Step 1: PACS Project • Digital radiology available throughout all of GHC • Includes all modalities except Mammography • Includes medical equipment costs for CR (Computed Radiography) to acquire images digitally. • Excludes any other radiology equipment upgrades that will take place during the PACS project implementation timeframe.

  6. Enterprise-Wide Imaging Strategy, cont. • Step 2: Digital Mammography Project • Planning in progress. • Step 3: Other Uses For PACS Project • Analyze needs of other “ologies” such as Dermatology, GI, Ophthalmology

  7. General X-Ray Today 1. Cassette Loaded 2. Image Taken 3. Film Processed 4 Film Collected Film Cassette Processed Film 7. Film Collected 8. Film Delivered 5. Patient Carries Film 6. Physician Reviews Processed Film Processed Film Processed Film 10. Report Dictated 12. Film Stored 9. Film Read 11. Film Collected Processed Film

  8. Future General X-Ray 4. Sent to PACS 1. Plate Loaded 2. Image Taken 3. Plate into CR Unit Digital Plate ALL USERS CAN NOW VIEW THE IMAGE 5. Physician Reviews 5. Film is Read & Reported On

  9. PACS Implementation Timeline

  10. More Info On PACS? • PACS Website on InContext • Listed as a business plan initiative • http://incontext.ghc.org/quality_informatics/pmo/pacs • pacs@ghc.org • PACS Sponsors Group • Jody Bauder • Matt Handley, MD • Ernie Hood • Bob Karl, MD • Marc Mora, MD • Erin Leff

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