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SCAR 2003 Hospital Tours
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Tour 1: Beth Israel Deaconess
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Tour 4: New England Baptist |
| Tour 2: Brigham & Womens |
Tour 5: Massachusetts General |
| Tour 3: Childrens Boston |
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| Please be at the Hynes Boylston Street Entrance 10 minutes before your scheduled tour time. |
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Bus transportation will be provided from the Hynes Convention Center (Boylston Street entrance) to each of the medical centers. Please be at the Hynes Boylston Street Entrance 10 minutes before your scheduled tour time. A tour of any one facility will last approximately one hour.
Tours require advance registration and many of the tour times reached capacity through pre-registration enrollment and are no longer available. Please check availbility at the tour registration desk in the Attendee Registration area in the BackBay Ballroom at the Sheraton to make selections on-site.
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Attendees of SCAR 2003 have the opportunity to register for tours of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BID), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Children’s Hospital of Boston (CHB), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and New England Baptist Hospital (NEB). Tour descriptions are available at the bottom of this page.
Each institution has different vendors and configurations giving participants an overview of several system solutions. Tours will be offered as follows:
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| Tour 1-BID, Tour 2-BWH, Tour 3-CHB, and Tour 4-NEB |
| Saturday, June 7, 2003 |
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM |
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3:15 PM – 5:15 PM |
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| Sunday, June 8, 2003 |
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM |
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3:15 PM – 5:15 PM |
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| Tour 5-MGH Only |
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| Monday, June 8, 2003 |
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM |
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3:15 PM – 5:15 PM |
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| At this time tours 1A, 2A, 5E and 5F are filled. |
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www.bidmc.harvard.edu
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| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School (since 1928). The center is a non-profit healthcare institute with 529 beds, 1200 physicians on the active medical staff and is renown for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching and community service. Located in the heart of Boston’s medical community it serves more than half a million patients annually in Boston and in communities North, West and South of the city. |
| The Division of Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center offers complete diagnostic services including general radiology, CT scans, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology. Each year over 250,000 examinations are performed and interpreted by sub-specialized radiologists. |
| The Division of Radiology has a PACS system that services three campuses and multiple outpatient centers. The PACS system has over 60 diagnostic workstations, 20 clinical workstations and Web-based image distribution. The Division of Radiology is electronically archiving 178, 000 exams per year. |
| This tour will focus on digital workflow in an outpatient setting, providing participants with an opportunity to interact in a fully functional digital environment. The tour includes: |
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Outpatient Workflow
· See CR and DR functioning in a busy outpatient department from patient arrival to final interpretation including remote reading with integrated RIS and softcopy interpretation.
Digital Mammography Workflow
· See how digital mammography improves workflow for the technologist and radiologist by streamlining the radiological process from the first patient contact through delivery of results.
Advanced Post Processing Methods
· See how a variety of advanced imaging techniques can be used to help with surgical planning, tumor staging and other facets of healthcare and research; also, the many ways in which image presentation can be made with multimedia.
The Digital Fileroom
· See how the fileroom duties have transformed from a film-based environment to digital.
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BIDMC Vendors:
· GE Medical Systems
· Fujifilm Medical Systems
· Fischer Imaging Corporation
· PacsCube (DatCard Systems, Inc)
· Vital Images, Inc.
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Tour 2 - Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)
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www.brighamandwomens.org
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| Since 1980, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has been recognized internationally for its excellence in patient care, medical research and the training of outstanding young physicians and other health care professionals. A teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (1994), the hospital comprises 716 beds, extensive outpatient facilities and state-of-the-art research laboratories. |
| The Department of Radiology offers a full spectrum of imaging services provided by sub-specialized radiologists. Each year over 500,000 examinations are performed. The Multidisciplinary PACS system at BWH services three hospitals (BWH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Faulkner Hospital) with over 110 image acquisition devices and over 125 diagnostic and clinical review workstations, and Web-based image distribution. In addition to radiological images, OB-Gyn studies, cardiac catheterizations, echocardiography and vascular ultrasound studies are also archived to PACS. Further integration into the enterprise is being carried out via a physician order entry system and the electronic round trip. |
| Brigham and Women’s Hospital would like to demonstrate the paperless/filmless workflow that is being implemented system wide. The tour includes: |
Physician’s Order
· Web Based Physician Order Entry is used to deliver real-time decision support to referring physicians while enabling them to create clean and concise orders. Three exams will be scheduled directly on-line with Radiology.
Imaging Services
· See how the scheduled appointment show directly on the modality via DICOM Modality Worklist
· Image acquisition, header validation and image transfer into the PACS
· Primary interpretation by the radiologists using various report generation techniques including back-office voice recognition.
· Long-term image archiving strategies.
Web Distribution
· Web distribution of the report and images electronically to the original referring physician, and to any clinician in the system that has the appropriate access and the need-to-know this diagnostic information. Images from radiology as well as from the cardiac cath lab and other imaging areas will demonstrate the multidisciplinary aspects of the Brigham PACS program and round out the presentation.
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BWH Vendors:
· Agfa HealthCare Corporation
· E-Scription
· EMC Corporation
· GE Medical Systems
· ID Corporation
· Medicalis
· Siemens Medical Solutions
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web1.tch.harvard.edu
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| Children's Hospital Boston is a 325-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As the largest pediatric medical center in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from 15 weeks gestation through 21 years of age (and older in special cases). Children's records approximately 18,000 inpatient admissions each year, and our more than 150 outpatient programs and emergency services care for more than 300,000 patients annually. The hospital also performs 150,000 radiological examinations every year. |
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Nuclear Medicine Information System
· See a demonstration of Children’s Hospital’s “homegrown” NMIS. A brief history and technical overview of the system will be provided followed by a demonstration of the various modules within the NMIS.
Radiology Web Strategy
· Review the Children’s Hospital internal Radiology Website that will highlight the following functional areas in the department: Administrative, Billing, Clinical, Engineering/IT Problem Reporting, PACS Project Tracking System, Radiology IT Information, Research, Staff, Teaching Files/Links, and Training & Conferences.
Technical Tour
· See our newly constructed computer room highlighting our uniquely designed PACS architecture. Radiology IT and PACS vendor personnel will be available to answer questions about how and why we decided on this particular design.
· View our state-of-the-art MRI reading room and view a demonstration of our PACS soft copy reading stations and our VR dictation stations. An opportunity to experience ‘hands-on’ PACS stations will be provided.
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Children’s Vendors:
· Fujifilm Medical Systems
· EMC Corporation
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Tour 4 - New England Baptist (NEB)
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www.nebh.caregroup.org
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| Established in 1893, New England Baptist Hospital is a 140-bed adult medical/surgical hospital, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, with specialty services in musculoskeletal care, sports medicine, occupational medicine and cardiology. Since its inception, New England Baptist Hospital has continually taken patient care to new levels and today is recognized for its exceptional blend of caring and commitment. |
| New England Baptist Hospital Radiology Department was the first electronically integrated facility in Boston. |
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· A hands-on look at workflow in the surgical suites, using 42” flat screen technology in the OR setting. With emphasis toward joint revision we will display the newest advances in electronic templating.
· Showcase of workflow in clinic settings in dedicated Hand Surgical and Outpatient Spine/Physiatry areas. Available images printed on paper media using DICOM print.
· Demonstration of primary interpretation of PACS stations, using PACS/RIS/MIS interface.
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NEB Vendors:
· Agfa HealthCare Corporation
· Sudbury Systems
· ProVation Medical
· Meditech
· EMC Corporation
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| Tour 5 - Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) |
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www.mgh.harvard.edu
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Founded in 1811, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 868-bed world-renowned medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Each year the MGH admits approximately 42,000 inpatients and handles more than 1.2 million visits in its extensive outpatient programs at the main campus and at its four health centers. Its emergency services handle nearly 75,000 visits annually.
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| The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $300 million. It is the oldest and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and nearly all of the hospital's active staff physicians are on the Harvard Medical School faculty. |
| There are approximately 30 million Radiology images stored in the PACS system at MGH making it the largest PACS System in the world. The Radiology department performs an average of 1400 exams per day // about 450,000 Radiological Exams each year. There are 7 Interpretation Locations: Pediatrics, Neuro-Radiology, Bone, Chest, & Gastrogenitory, Emergency Radiology and Vascular. With a staff of over 70 board-certified radiologists, and an exceptionally high volume of studies, the Department has gained distinction for its subspecialty expertise in cardiac, emergency, GI/GU, interventional, musculoskeletal, neurology, interventional neurology, pediatric, thoracic, and vascular radiology, as well as breast imaging and nuclear medicine. The tour includes: |
Digital Imaging Department
· See where it all happens: System Monitoring, QA, Troubleshooting.
Emergency Department
· See CR, DR, CT functioning in a Level 1 Trauma Emergency Department.
Orthopaedic Outpatient Department
· See CR, DR functioning in busy orthopaedic radiology department.
Interpretation Areas
· Observe primary interpretation using PACS system in conjunction with voice recognition.
The Image Service Center
· See the state of the art Image Service Center.
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MGH Vendors:
· Agfa HealthCare Corporation
· Amicas, Inc.
· GE Medical Systems
· Hologic, Inc.
· IDX Corporation
· Siemens Medical Solutions
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