OB Facilities Look to Digisonics for Streamlined OB Ultrasound Reporting

HOUSTON (August 14, 2013) – Crusader Clinic in Rockford, Ill., St. Gabriel Hospital in Little Falls, Minn. and Group Health Cooperative health care system based in Washington state all employ Digisonics Structured Reporting Solutions for their OB ultrasound studies.  The Digisonics structured reporting software streamlines the workflow at each of these facilities, improving report turnaround times and freeing up more time to spend on direct patient care.

Crusader Clinic and St. Gabriel Hospital expanded their OB ultrasound structured reporting systems with additional software licenses.  More clinical users will now have access to the Digisonics system for structured reporting of their OB ultrasound studies and fetal growth analysis.

Group Health Cooperative added OBLink interfaces to streamline connectivity between the Digisonics OB ultrasound structured reporting system and incumbent systems, improving the overall clinical workflow at six facilities.  OBLinks will autopopulate patient demographics and measurements from GE ultrasound machines directly into the Digisonics OB ultrasound structured report, saving valuable data entry time and eliminating possible input errors.

About Digisonics, Inc.

Digisonics provides top-rated clinical image management and structured reporting systems for cardiovascular (CVIS), radiology, and obstetrics & gynecology. Digisonics structured reporting solutions combine high performance image review workstations, a powerful PACS image archive, an integrated clinical database, comprehensive analysis capabilities and highly configurable reporting for multiple modalities. Key applications are complemented with interfaces to information systems and 3rd party vendors, providing facilities with a seamless, efficient clinical workflow. 

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