Online image management solutions offer a novel paradigm in the crowded PACS market. Here are a few facilities that have discovered cost savings and other benefits from tapping into the online solution.

Simple means individual clinicians and referring physicians or, betteryet, multidisciplinary teams can treat patients better and potentiallyfaster. Informatics is the enabler to optimal treatment plans.

St. Jude Medical has renewed its complete line of product agreementswith HealthTrust Purchasing Group, which covers St. Jude's line ofcardiac rhythm management, atrial fibrillation, cardiac surgery andcardiology products.

Provena Health will utilize Misys Healthcare Systems products to assistpoint-of-care patient safety and maintain accurate data via instantaccess to EMRs.

Blue Shield of California has contracted with the TriZetto Group toacquire software for a system-wide technology to improve its datasystems associated with claims processing, membership, customerservice, sales channels and new product development.

Health Quest, a healthcare system in New York’s Hudson Valley, hasselected Cerner as its clinical information systems solution providerand will implement a suite of Cerner Millennium clinical solutionsthroughout its system of three hospitals, Northern Dutchess Hospital,Putnam Hospital Center and the Vassar Brothers Medical Center.

Children’s Hospital Boston has selected ImageNow, a enterprise documentmanagement, imaging and workflow application from Perceptive Software,to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing whileincreasing the department’s level of accuracy.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has deployed the Initiateenterprise master person index (EMPI) for all of the center’s currentsource systems, to support its growing reporting and analytical needs.