ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced its
collaboration with UCHealth, an integrated delivery network
of five hospitals in Colorado and
more than 100 ambulatory locations across Colorado, Southern
Wyoming, and Western
Nebraska, to consolidate and standardize UCHealth's
Electronic Health Records (EHR), voice recognition systems, and
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) onto specialized
platforms for radiology and cardiology. As a result of the
migration to Philips IntelliSpace PACS for radiology and Xcelera
for cardiology, UCHealth projects a five year savings of
11.1 million USD, as well as improved
workflow efficiencies, ready access to images for enhanced patient
care, and a flexible and nimble structure poised to seamlessly
connect with additional technologies.
UCHealth saw rapid growth as part of a merger in 2012 and with
it came an array of legacy PACS systems; the new UCHealth system
had three radiology PACS and four cardiology PACS. Realizing that
IT integration could result in cost-savings, workflow efficiencies
and improve patient care, UCHealth is now utilizing Philips to
consolidate and standardize its health IT systems across the entire
hospital enterprise.
"From a health system perspective, any patient should be able to
get identical, high quality, standardized care any place in the
system – and PACS is part of that," said Peter Sachs, M.D., Associate Professor of
Radiology, University of Colorado
School of Medicine, Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging and
Vice Chair of Informatics, Department of Radiology, and Radiology
Physician Informaticist, UCHealth. "Standardizing imaging
protocols, workflow, and the structure and content of reports is
essential, as is making sure clinicians can see prior studies and
historical records."
"Creating interoperability within health IT is a huge area of
focus for us, as it leads to clinical, financial, and operational
efficiencies and improvements across the entire healthcare
network," said Jeroen Tas, CEO, Healthcare Informatics Solutions
and Services, Philips. "Now radiologists and cardiologists have
access to the full patient history contained in the EHR plus
clinical tools, and clinicians have the opportunity to review
images acquired anywhere within the UCHealth system."
PACS key to integrated patient experience
With six million radiology images and 30,000 cardiology studies
already migrated on to Philips IntelliSpace PACS and Xcelera,
radiologists and cardiologists at UCHealth can view a patient's
prior images as well as new studies on a single patient timeline,
regardless of where those images were acquired within the UCHealth
system. As a result of working with Philips to consolidate PACS,
UCHealth estimates a savings of $6.5
million in the first five years in radiology and
$4.6 million in cardiology, due to
reduced software and associated maintenance costs.
UCHealth will also soon migrate to Philips IntelliSpace
Cardiovascular and has plans to include visible light images in the
IntelliSpace PACS, mobility initiatives, and advanced visualization
via the IntelliSpace Portal.
Philips will showcase IntelliSpace PACS and its full portfolio
of integrated radiology solutions at booth #6736 at the 2015
Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA), taking
place Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, in
Chicago, Ill. For updates, follow
@PhilipsLiveFrom or visit www.philips.com/rsna for more
information on Philips' presence at #RSNA15.
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O'Reilly
Philips Group Communications
Tel.: +1 978-659-2638
E-mail: Kathy.Oreilly@philips.com
Twitter: @kathyoreilly
Joost Maltha
Philips Global Integrated Communications
Tel.: +31 610-55-8116
E-mail: Joost.Maltha@philips.com
Twitter: @JoostMaltha
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