PACS and the streamlined image workflow it offers is having a huge impact on the way multidisciplinary trauma teams handle their most critical patients.

Healthcare needs to be obsessed with efficiency. And we do too;efficiency is the lifeblood of healthcare in 2007. Our case study-basedstories each month detail the efficiencies gained by people andmachines.

Ohio Gastroenterology Group, one of the region’s largestgastroenterology medical groups has gone live on athenahealth’son-demand practice management service to improve the operationalworkflow and financial performance of their three locations throughoutColumbus.

AMICAS has signed a PACS contract with Advanced Radiology of Millville,N.J. a provider of outpatient imaging services, including generalradiography, open and closed MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, mammography,ultrasound, and fluoroscopic procedures.

CareTech Solutions has completed the implementation of a campus-widewireless local area network (LAN) in southeast Michigan’s Garden CityHospital (GCH).

DR Systems announced 12 new contracts with healthcare facilities forits Unity RIS/PACS, totaling more than $7.4 million. The contractsignings came toward the end of 2006, and are from a variety ofinstitutions, from diagnostic imaging centers to large hospitals.

NeuroLogica Corporation’s CereTom has been installed at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind.

Agfa HealthCare announces that it has successfully installed ORBIS inits Italian pilot site, the Italian Malzoni Hospital (Clinica MedicaMalzoni) in Avellino, part of the Malzoni Hospital Group (GruppoMalzoni).