Abstract:
:Transitioning to a filmless department is no easy task, especially at a large academic medical center. At the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, a phased modality integration schedule was implemented to allow the technical and clinical staff to gradually absorb all of the changes to workflow. One-on-one training sessions were designed to prepare radiologists and referring clinicians to access and navigate the in-house picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstations as well as to view images over the Internet via the PACS Web server. An interdepartmental steering committee was formed to plan deployment of the in-house workstations. A planning committee met on a weekly basis to outline placement of workstations within the Radiology Department, and to redesign the reading room. A user group was created to discuss specific user problems. Of particular interest was the challenge of outfitting a dozen conference rooms with projection systems capable of displaying radiologic images. We distinguished between regular and working conferences. At regular conferences only a few cases are reviewed over the course of an hour and only after the diagnosis has been made at a PACS workstation. In contrast, the surgical and medical intensive care units conduct daily working conferences. At those sessions the images of 20 to 30 patients are reviewed, many of them for the first time, and for each case a definitive diagnosis is expected. During the implementation process, a range of issues came up that limited access of certain studies to radiologists and referring clinicians alike. Even after the initial PACS installation, many studies went unread because of a lack of worklists. Other problems included image ordering for head computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. A few of our modalities were not DICOM compliant and needed image capture devices in order to be integrated with the PACS. To our dismay, this was also true of one of our modalities that was supposed to be DICOM compliant. These problems, and the solutions we discovered, are discussed in this paper.
journal_name
J Digit Imagingjournal_title
Journal of digital imagingauthors
Hirschorn D,Eber C,Samuels P,Gujrathi S,Baker SRdoi
10.1007/s10278-002-5044-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-01-01 00:00:00pages
7-12eissn
0897-1889issn
1618-727Xjournal_volume
15 Suppl 1pub_type
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