Case Study: USAF Aerospace Cardiology Consultation
One of the youngest branches in the U.S. military, the Air Force was borne from the Army Air Forces in 1947 and continues today as one of the most formidable branches of today’s armed forces. Recent estimates indicate a cost of nearly $2.6 million to fully train an air force fighter pilot. That same fighter […]
Case Study: Lake Regional Health System
Collaborative Medicine Wins Through Multi-Department Use of Enterprise PACS Situated near the shores of Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri, Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital (as it was known in 1978 when it first opened its doors) has grown over the past 25 years to become a state-of-the-art medical facility. Known now […]
Case Study: Alton Memorial Hospital
Enterprise-Wide Solution Integrates Cardiac and Radiographic Studies, Enabling Facility to Practice Collaborative Medicine Founded in 1937, the 222-bed Alton Memorial Hospital located in Alton, IL, served more than 90,000 patients in 2003. The local leader in cardiology services and a member of BJC HealthCare based in St. Louis, Alton Memorial Hospital opened the region’s first […]
Case Study: Quincy Medical Group
Complete Workflow Solutions: Multi-specialty Group Practice Adopts Comprehensive Digital Workflow When Dr. Walter M. Whitaker brought the first EKG machine to Quincy, Illinois in 1930, little did he know what remarkable advancements in medicine were to come. Seven years later, in 1937, Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Orie F. Shulian and Dr. Kent W. Barber merged their […]
Case Study: Diagnostic Imaging Associates
Single Database Solution Unifies Group’s Approach to Reading In Rural Oklahoma Founded in 1969, Diagnostic Imaging Associates (DIA) initially provided Oklahoma’s rural hospitals and clinics with “circuit-riding” radiologists that would read cases once per week for a few hours before moving on to the next facility on their list. While these circuit riders provided a […]
