December 1, 2011—Chicago—The Antillean Adventist Hospital in Curacao, Netherland Antilles, part of the Adventist Health Network, has selected CoActiv EXAM-PACS® for the management, communication and archiving of its multi-modality digital images. Following recent disastrous flooding that destroyed its original PACS, the busy hospital needed an advanced, cost-effective digital solution to quickly provide reliable access to its imaging exams. It selected CoActiv EXAM-PACS after a comprehensive search of a broad range of vendors.
According to Cirino de Lima, IT coordinator for the imaging site, the hospital’s entire radiology department had received extensive damage due to a heavy storm and a broken levee. A key goal of the project was to maximize the number of images recovered from the water soaked servers while quickly installing a new PACS with a full range of features and functionalities that would cater to both the site’s specific needs and very limited budget.
To speed the process and minimize expenses, CoActiv was able to set up all key elements of the PACS solution in the U.S., ship it to this island off the coast of Venezuela, and then send a CoActiv PACS engineer to handle onsite installation, integration and training.
“We worked closely with Antillean Adventist Hospital to create a PACS solution that met their needs and to have it up and running quickly and efficiently, with easy start-up and training for the hospital staff,” says Ed Heere, CEO and president of CoActiv. “Shortly after installation of the PACS, the imaging department was up and running faster and better than it had been before. The site was so pleased with CoActiv EXAM-PACS’s performance they plan to install our fully integrated EXAM-RIS® soon.”
The complete digital imaging solution included both a full EXAM-PACS and a redundant onsite archive. Mirrored storage devices were placed in separate buildings in locations protected from future water damage, and the system was up and running within days.
About CoActiv
CoActiv Medical™ is a leading healthcare software and IT systems provider offering a full line of PACS, digital image and data storage services and related solutions for hospitals, imaging facilities and medical practices of all sizes. CoActiv’s EXAM-PACS® family of web-based PACS solutions provide leading edge, affordable and scalable image management with sophisticated tools that cater to the needs of radiologists as well as a full range of other imaging specialists. Available as both enterprise server-based and cloud-based solutions, EXAM-PACS is designed for easy integration into imaging facilities of any size. Comprised of modular software components, EXAM-PACS enables any site to customize a solution to meet their specific needs and budgets or to add advanced functionality to an existing PACS solution.
EXAM-PACS includes EXAM-FILER® CD-burning solution; vendor-neutral, cloud-based HIPAA-compliant, offsite/online EXAM-VAULT® QUAD-REDUNDANT ARCHIVING®; patent-pending EXAM-SENDER® referring physician system; EXAM-3D® advanced, multi-modular 3D color reconstruction and visualization; EXAM-NET™ teleradiology suite and EXAM-BROWSER™, a revolutionary fully cloud-based, zero-footprint universal DICOM viewer that enables anywhere, anytime review of medical images on any PACS from any platform, including iPhone, iPad, and all Android and other tablets and smartphones. EXAM-PACS includes such premium features as support for breast specific gamma imaging (BSGI) and storage of non-DICOM data such as prescriptions, reports and surgical plans in patient files. Complementing this is CoActiv’s family of EXAM-RIS® solutions scaled for imaging facilities of every size site and budget. Contact CoActiv at (877) 262-2848; ed.heere@coactiv.com; www.coactiv.com.
