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Through their network of hospitals, clinics, centers, health units, and residential facilities, the Island Health (Vancouver Island Health Authority) provides healthcare to more than 765,000 people located in a geographic area of approximately 34,800 square miles.

Spanning across nineteen medical imaging sites on Vancouver Island, Island Health boasts a highly skilled team of professionals who work together to provide diagnostics and treatment procedures.

An Intelerad partner for over 15 years, Island Health uses IntelePACS and InteleViewer to read over 800,000 studies per year across Island health’s network of hospitals. “By leveraging Intelerad solutions, we have been able to greatly improve our medical imaging department’s efficiency,” said Ken Situ, a technical analyst with Island Health. “In particular, it has greatly reduced turnaround time, which allows us to provide reports to referring physicians quickly.”

For over 70 years, Insight Medical Imaging has provided state-of-the-art medical imaging services to the city of Edmonton and its surrounding areas. Having started out as a smaller, hospital-based imaging organization, Insight has grown significantly over the past 10 years, following their move from film to IntelePACS.

By leveraging Intelerad’s award-winning solution, the imaging group has been able to implement a more effective workflow, with radiologists able to greatly increase productivity and reduce turnaround times on reports. Part of these efficiency gains came from IntelePACS’ ability to transfer images across locations, which allows Insight to balance workloads across the organization, leading to greater operational efficiency.

“IntelePACS has had a positive impact by putting the information that radiologists need at their fingertips so they can serve patients as quickly as possible,” said Andrew Batiuk, Insight’s IT manager. “The solution has also enabled us to be more productive without increasing staff, so we can serve a greater number of patients while increasing our productivity.”

Deploying IntelePACS has also helped Insight expand their reach to rural areas. An example of this would be the complete diagnostic imaging center they opened in Fort McMurray, located 280 miles north of Edmonton. The studies are remotely read by Insight’s Edmonton based team and the images and report results are promptly available to the referring physician.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced three new offerings as part of their Nuage suite of cloud-based solutions. Amongst the new solutions is CloudComplete — a fully-featured, cloud-based version of their award-winning IntelePACS solution. Other solutions added to the suite include CloudStore, which enables imaging departments to move all long-term storage to the cloud; and CloudMirror, which offers the flexibility of an off-site hosted data replication service.

Radsource is an innovative, highly specialized teleradiology practice that provides musculoskeletal and neurological MRI interpretation services. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, Radsource is staffed by a team of 20 sub-specialized radiologists who read 140,000 studies annually for customers spanning more than 50 locations across the United States.

Radsource radiologists read and interpret studies in a highly collaborative environment enabled by Intelerad’s IntelePACS system.

All Radsource physicians use the IntelePACS integrated worklist and viewer. The intuitive, shared Intelerad Reporting Worklist optimally distributes the workload while providing the ability to collaborate on cases – thus leveraging all the expertise within the group to effect the highest quality interpretations.

“The ability to interact clinically while viewing the images is really an important part of building that client relationship,” says Mark Awh, M.D., Radsource president. High levels of interaction among the radiologists, as well as with their referring physicians, are key contributors to the unparalleled quality and service for which Radsource is known. The end result is greatly enhanced patient care.

If you are part of a health system that has spent months building and designing a new picture archive and communications system (PACS), it is undoubtedly an exciting time. Reaching the point of PACS activation and getting staff up and running is a true milestone. Once your company reaches this point, it may feel like the hard work is over and that it is time to take a deep breath, but in reality there is still much more to do and questions that have to be answered in order to fully support your organization during and post PACS go-live.