Amicas, Affinity Health System ink image management partnership. Check it out:
(Science Letter Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Amicas, Inc. (AMCS) announced that Affinity Health System, Appleton, Wisconsin, has successfully deployed Amicas Vision Series PACS as their image management platform across three hospitals and numerous affiliated clinics.
Affinity Health System is a network of 20 clinics, three hospitals, a long-term care facility and a health plan serving Northeast Wisconsin. Affinity Health System offers a broad variety of locations and services to ensure access and services for the entire spectrum of healthcare needs. Affinity Health System has successfully deployed the Amicas Vision Series PACS platform at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Mercy Medical Center and Calumet Medical Center.
Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System, said, "Affinity Health System employed a very pragmatic approach to our PACS selection process. We identified several critical success factors early in our selection process to ensure that we maximized the value of our PACS investment. These factors included everything from tight integration with our existing Meditech patient information system to a unique rollout strategy that started with enterprise distribution of images via our Meditech Patient Care Inquiry (PCI) application before going live with PACS in the department of radiology. At the end of that evaluation, Amicas clearly had the best technical solution and demonstrated a genuine desire to partner with us to meet our specific needs."
"Amicas is thrilled to have an image management partnership with Affinity Health System," said Peter McClennen, president and COO of Amicas. "Affinity Health System is progressive in their methodology for selecting and deploying sophisticated software solutions and we are honored to be their partner of choice for image management software."
Affinity Health System utilizes Meditech as their core hospital information system. As one of the largest Meditech Magic installations in the country, the ability to leverage the existing Meditech investment was a critical consideration in their PACS selection and deployment process. "We believe that our partnership with Amicas has helped us realize more value from our investment with Meditech," said Weider. "The focus that Amicas has demonstrated on integration with Meditech allows them to deliver a functionally more robust solution than other PACS vendors."
This article was prepared by Science Letter editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2006, Science Letter via NewsRx.com.
Copyright 2006 Science Letter via NewsRx.com
Technorati
Del.icio.us
Slashdot
Digg
