Compressus MEDxConnect(TM) System Provides Enterprise Wide Integration of
Major Information System Across Eleven Sites, Including Advocate Lutheran
General Hospital
AUSTIN, Texas, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Compressus Inc. and Advanced
Radiology Consultants, S.C. of Illinois (ARC) announced today the
implementation of an integrated digital medical imaging and data management
system at eleven ARC sites, including Advocate Lutheran General Hospital of
Park Ridge, Ill. Announced at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for
Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR), April 27-30, the implementation
involves the installation of a spectrum of MEDxConnect System components,
designed to enable seamless integration of disparate information systems
and provide users the freedom to select best of breed PACS, HIS/RIS, EMS
and CIS tools, regardless of vendor.
Supporting 11 facilities in Illinois with 20 board certified
radiologists, Advanced Radiology Consultants, S.C. reads and creates
diagnostic reports for more than 250,000 medical imaging exams a year. The
MEDxConnect implementation will initially support Advocate Lutheran General
Hospital and a number of satellite facilities in the Chicago area.
"As the number of images captured for diagnostic review increases
exponentially, the need for radiological services is outpacing the growth
of the radiologist workforce, so the ability to improve productivity and
workflow is critical," said John Anastos, MD, department of radiology
chairman at Advocate Lutheran Hospital and president of ARC, SC. "Seamless
connectivity across our network allows us to fully leverage our physicians'
subspecialty expertise and get the right images to the right physician
regardless of where they were generated and regardless of where across our
network the physician may be located. We struggled to find the right IT
consultants that could look at so many different sites using so many
different PACS/RIS systems and to link them into an efficient operating
network. Compressus was able to provide a robust and cost efficient
solution."
The integrated Digital Medical Imaging PACS system solution from
Compressus is designed to support the current and expanded workload
expected by ARC and provide an infrastructure for sustained growth. This
solution emphasizes the electronic collection and distribution of digital
imaging data including: digital storage and transmission of imaging data,
softcopy workstations for efficient interpretation by radiologists,
automated voice interpretation for generation of reports and electronic and
secure distribution via the web of images and reports to referring
physicians.
The MEDxConnect System addresses the lack of communications inherent to
traditional PACS implementations based on proprietary technologies and
competitive pressures. This often forces medical facilities to settle for a
sub-par solution with a single vendor providing all components or rely on
stop gap measures to achieve common communications across all operational
areas -- many times in the form of moving personnel to follow the images
from one workstation to another. The MEDxConnect System acts as a
communications hub, enabling various PACS, HIS, RIS and other data
information systems to connect and communicate across the enterprise.
The cornerstone of the system is the ConnectServer(TM) with robust,
open- architected software that creates a virtual archive and database,
enabling high speed enterprise wide data transfer from any acquisition
device to any workstation. The company's image compression technology can
support lossy and lossless compression, yet facilitate electronic image
transmission in a fraction of the time compared to other technologies on
the market. In addition, all physicians using MEDxConnect will immediately
have the capability to create complete reports using the MEDxConnect voice
recognition tools or existing voice transcription services and protocols
used in connection with each facility's PACS/RIS system.
According to Dr. Anastos, to successfully build a complete and flexible
system to efficiently manage the diagnostic and reporting radiological
services for their clients from multiple referring organizations, the
implementation had to provide immediate availability of a number of
specific capabilities for any ARC physician at a deployed facility or via
the Internet. These include the ability to retrieve and store diagnostic
images on DICOM archives, the ability to manage their activities via a
patient work list generated from multiple PACS or network systems, and the
ability to route images to participating physicians based upon any
combination of modality, body part, and/or referring physician. Finally, to
maximize productivity and reduce spikes in workload, physicians have the
ability to access patients work lists throughout to network.
"The MEDxConnect System will not only help us shorten the time from
which a patient is scanned to the time when a completed report is delivered
to a referring physician, this solution emphasizes enhanced distribution
and sharing of digital images and data throughout the diagnostic and
reporting process. Thanks to the flexibility and scalability of the
Compressus product offering, this efficiency will be extended to new
referring facilities as they are introduced into the ARC business network,"
Dr. Anastos added.
"Advanced Radiology Consultants are leaders in a new field designed to
improve access to the rapid delivery of medical imaging results in both
rural and urban areas of the country," said Janine Broda, vice president
and general manager for Compressus Medical Solutions Division. "Compressus
provides the missing link to comprehensive connectivity and medical
information solutions by economically facilitating seamless data transfer
that improves the efficiency, diagnostic confidence and patient throughput
for medical practices -- in essence, MEDxConnect is the Switzerland of data
management."
About Compressus Inc.
Compressus Inc. is a software development company offering robust,
proven solutions in the growing fields of medical imaging, telemedicine,
disaster preparedness and response, and biosurveillance. The company's
advanced data- compression and server technology enables the rapid
collection, storage, and secure transmission of large data sets, such as
detailed medical images, working interoperably with any existing or
emerging IT and telecom system. For more information, visit
http://www.compressus.com .
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