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Baptist Health Pacs Success Story
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mckessonmedicalimaging
Baptist Health
Enhances Patient Care with PACS
Case Study
At a Glance
Organization
Baptist Health
Little Rock, Ark.
– Eight hospitals
– Six outpatient imaging centers
– 315,000 imaging studies
per year
– 6,000...
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Baptist Health
Enhances Patient Care with PACS
Case Study
At a Glance
Organization
Baptist Health
Little Rock, Ark.
– Eight hospitals
– Six outpatient imaging centers
– 315,000 imaging studies
per year
– 6,000 referring physicians
– 38 radiologists (contracted
reading group)
Solution Spotlight
– Horizon Medical ImagingTM
Critical Issues
– Limited access to medical
images
– High turnaround times for
radiology reports to referring
physicians
Results
– Created the ability to share
patient images regardless of
where the patient is seen
– Reduced radiology report
turnaround times
– Streamlined processes so
high-priority studies can
be turned around almost
immediately
spanning as much as 150 miles.
Without a digital imaging system
to share patient images and reports,
ER physicians had no way to
conduct an online consult with
Baptist Health radiologists.
This
situation meant that patients
often had to be transferred to
another hospital to resolve
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