LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-agnostic, integrated
medical imaging and information systems, announced the completion of an
extensive cardiovascular PACS deployment at Iowa Health Systems (IHS).
Working together with IHS, a team of technical and clinical experts
implemented CardioPACS multi-modality imaging system at ten affiliate
hospitals across Iowa and western Illinois in under six months’ time.
The first site, Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, went live
July 3, 2009; by December 16, all ten sites were using CardioPACS.
“This project represents one of the most expansive and most
sophisticated cardiovascular PACS deployments in this country to date”
“This project represents one of the most expansive and most
sophisticated cardiovascular PACS deployments in this country to date,”
said LUMEDX Chief Operating Officer Chris Winquist.
Iowa Health System is Iowa’s largest integrated health network, with 26
affiliated medical centers and 140 physician clinics delivering care to
nearly one-third of patients in the state. Implementing CardioPACS is
part of an ongoing LUMEDX-IHS project to develop a centralized,
enterprise-wide cardiovascular (CV) image- and data-management system
that meets Iowa Health’s clinical and business objectives.
Multi-modality and vendor-neutral, CardioPACS is ideally suited for this
project, offering highly customizable image and data management with a
fully integrated suite of applications, modules and interfaces.
According to LUMEDX Director of Imaging Systems Praveen Lobo, “The Iowa
Health PACS deployment is unprecedented in terms of both scope and
sophistication. First, there are the numbers involved: ten hospitals;
two states; many, many users; every existent cardiovascular
modality—cath, echo, nuclear, to name just a few. Second, and equally
important, is the architecture we designed to support the IHS
organizational structure.”
“Iowa Health System is comprised of smaller systems, hospitals grouped
together, as well as individual hospitals. Because of this, IHS needed
their PACS to be operationally distributed yet technologically
centralized. We created data clusters: tiered databases so all the sites
and groups could retain their independent identities and workflows while
simultaneously bringing the information all together for the overall
Iowa Health System,” explained Lobo. This design—combined with a
concerted IHS effort to get their infrastructure in place in advance—led
to a rapid series of highly smooth implementations.
“The success of this project has led us to conclude that this is how
integrated health networks can and should be deploying PACS systems for
the greatest economic and efficient benefits,” Winquist added.
CardioPACS has been implemented at the following Iowa Health System
affiliate sites:
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Des Moines
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Iowa Lutheran Hospital – Des Moines, IA
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Iowa Methodist Medical Center – Des Moines, IA
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Methodist West Hospital – West Des Moines, IA
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St. Luke’s Hospital – Cedar Rapids, IA
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Trinity Regional Medical Center – Fort Dodge, IA
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Allen Memorial Hospital – Waterloo, IA
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Trinity Medical Center – Quad-Cities
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West Campus – Rock Island, IL
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Terrace Park Campus – Bettendorf, IA
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7th Street Campus – Moline, IL
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Saint Luke’s Regional Medical Center – Sioux City, IA
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