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25 TIMS DICOM SYSTEMS INSTALLED AT BAPTIST HEALTH
Foresight Imaging announces the recent installation of 25 of their TIMS DICOM Systems at Baptist Health in central Alabama. is enterprise-wide installation was sold and implemented by Dicom Solutions Inc., a TIMS DICOM System value-added reseller based in Southern California. Baptist Health made the decision to go digital with the installation of an iSite Radiology PACS and an Xcelera Cardiology PACS from Philips Medical Systems. With this roll-out of PACS across their three hospitals and six imaging centres, Baptist Health also wanted to go digital with all of their modalities, eliminate film, and be reading all imaging studies from PACS immediately. Unfortunately, to replace all of their non-DICOM modalities with native DICOM modalities would require the immediate purchase of 25 new modalities, costing Baptist Health millions of dollars. With their limited budget, their only options were a long phase-in of PACS, or finding a cost eff ective non-DICOM to DICOM conversion system.
Dicom Solutions worked extensively with Baptist Health to implement the installation of the 25 TIMS DICOM Systems. is installation ensured Baptist Health would be up and running on PACS with all modalities immediately, thereby leveraging their investment in PACS from day one. The modalities that TIMS is sending to PACS include nuclear medicine, fluoros-copy, angiography, C-arms, catheterization labs, endoscopy and others. Dicom Solutions and Baptist Health chose the TIMS DICOM System over other DICOM conversion systems for two main reasons: TIMS’ ability to acquire from any medical modality; and TIMS’ ability to acquire from both static and motion video modalities, including long formats such as speech pathology. “We are very pleased with the implementation of the TIMS DICOM System. Upon the installation of the 25 TIMS units, we were up and running on PACS with all modalities immediately. With our investment in PACS, that is exactly what we wanted. And we were able to do so for just a fraction of the cost of investing in all new modalities,” said W. Scott Edwards, System PACS administrator at Baptist Health.
Foresight Imaging
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Dicom Solutions Inc.
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