�Less than a year into the process, RamSoft, a starring developer of affordable healthcare information technology, has successfully helped PresGar, the nation's largest privately-owned medical imaging service company, establish a significant digital mammography comportment at eight-spot of its imaging centers.
The solution has been increased efficiency among PresGar mammographers and technologists and substantial nest egg for the company. If things go as planned, a one-ninth center may soon join the flux, combining RamSoft's PowerServer PACS and Gateway Routers with PresGar's new digital mammography system.
"It's a home run," Dave Kost, Imaging Informatics Manager for PresGar, said of the integration. "We couldn't be happier."
PresGar, of Tampa, FL, operates 36 imaging centers that complete an estimated 350,000 exams yearly. To facilitate optimal viewing, 10 PowerServer PACS, some serving more than one imaging center, along with three Gateway Routers receive been installed by RamSoft, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The digital effort began in October 2007 when the first new mammography system was integrated with the RamSoft technology. Seven other systems were added through mid-2008, and a ninth system will be implemented afterward this year. The young digital mammography systems, in New York, Virginia, Ohio and Florida, are replacing film-screen mammography units at each center.
"PresGar was really our first big account in terms of establishing our solution as ideal for a distributed outpatient imaging center grouping," said Vijay Ramanathan, President and CEO of RamSoft. "The relationship has allowed us to prove that our solution is superior to anything else in that genial of environment."
In making the move to digital, PresGar had one predominate goal: to enable the capture of superior images that john be manipulated for optimum viewing victimisation the RamSoft mammography module. The PACS facilitates both on-site viewing and transmittance to remote locations for off-site limited review.
Offered in several configurations, the PowerServer provides a reliable, fault-tolerant, web-based approach to PACS, accommodating inexhaustible users and workstations. Features range from study trailing from start to finish and unmated real-time worklist flexibility, to prefetching of current and prior studies and elastic viewing protocols specific to modality and body office. A suite of clinical tools intentional to optimize images and a digital dictation module also are provided.
An important constituent is RamSoft's mammography module, which automatically sorts left wing and right digital image series and matches them to prior films for easy comparing.
"What we've done is make digital mammography function similarly to all of the other modalities offered by PresGar," Ramanathan aforementioned. "That has eliminated the need for them to make a separate, pricy investment in mammography. No longer does a company such as PresGar want to have one solution for all of the modalities and a separate solution for mammography."
In less than a year the RamSoft collaboration already has benefited PresGar. The company saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by opting not to purchase dedicated workstations; film has been eliminated, also delivery PresGar a substantial amount of money; technologists and mammographers ar more efficient, enabling more studies to be realized and revenues to increase; the tone of images captured has been enhanced, increasing reader confidence and minimizing liability; and images can be quickly and easily transmitted to remote locations. Clearly, RamSoft is playing an important theatrical role in PresGar's transition to digital mammography and boilers suit growth.
Numbers underscore that. Between 40 and 50 studies are completed day-after-day at each site compared with 18 to 20 per day a year ago. PresGar's overall efficiency has increased by 30%-40%.
"Digital mammography combined with RamSoft PACS has saved us tens of thousands of dollars beyond the workstation savings, and that's a big deal," Kost aforesaid. "Imaging centers face a very tough climate these days, and we have to do what we can to be efficient and profitable. RamSoft PACS and its Gateway Routers have at rest a long way toward helping us achieve that."
About RamSoft
RamSoft, Inc. is a leading healthcare IT software and services company that is dedicated to creating and delivering award-winning medical imagination and radioscopy solutions to its clients in the U.S. and around the world. The company's goal is to enable tomography facilities, radioscopy centers, ambulatory and acute-care practices to offer a superior floor and quality of patient role care with the affordable and feature-rich PowerServer� Series of PACS, RIS/PACS, teleradiology, and patient information management systems.
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