Putnam Hospital Center Selects CoActiv EXAM-PACS® for their Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
Ridgefield, CT – CoActiv Medical Business Solutions, a software and systems provider to hospitals and radiology imaging centers, today announced that Putnam Hospital Center, located in Carmel, New York, has selected CoActiv EXAM-PACS® as their full solution picture archiving and communications system (PACS). Putnam Hospital Center, an affiliate of New York based Health Quest, is a 164-bed, not-for-profit, acute care hospital offering the highest quality healthcare, emergency services and community based services. Putnam Hospital Center is part of the Health Quest network that provides immediate and caring service to the one million people who reside in the New York counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Putnam and Northern Westchester.
Putnam Hospital chose CoActiv EXAM-PACS as their digital image management solution to aid in their transition from film-based radiology to a digital imaging environment. CoActiv EXAM-PACS offered the most inclusive, flexible and efficient PACS while also offering significant cost-containment measures. Putnam Hospital Center will not only reap the many patient-care improvements of this new digital imaging technology, CoActiv will also provide a solution for the hospital at a net cost that is significantly less than their current, older, film-based process. This PACS implementation is just one of the many recent innovations at Putnam Hospital Center designed to improve patient care and continue the hospital’s ongoing efforts to keep healthcare affordable in Putnam County and the surrounding area.
After CoActiv EXAM-PACS® has been completely and securely integrated into the hospital’s technology infrastructure over the next several weeks, Putnam Hospital Center will have the ability to seamlessly exchange digital exam images and reports with their remote affiliate locations. Doctors will have the ability to instantly read all radiological exams from virtually anywhere in the world, making sure that patient information and images are now available to the finest doctors in every medical specialty, no matter where they may be, 24 hours a day. Putnam Hospital Center will also take advantage of the many CoActiv EXAM-PACS® enhancement modules that also improve exam workflow, enhance the doctor referral processes, ensure privacy and security, and ultimately improve patient care.
The CoActiv EXAM-PACS full solution includes the following modules:
CoActiv EXAM-Vault®: an on-line and “quad-redundant,” HIPAA-compliant archive solution that saves exams in four locations, three of which are immediately available on-line, and one that is saved on secure removable digital media. By choosing this particular archiving solution, which is the industry’s most redundant and secure exam storage system, Putnam Hospital Center can guarantee their thousands of patients that medical images will always be instantly available, when and if needed to make immediate treatment decisions.
CoActiv EXAM-Filer®: a CD burning solution that creates self-contained, exam study CDs, readable in virtually any CD or DVD equipped Windows PC. The EXAM-Filer® CDs are ideal for fast and inexpensive distribution of exams to patients, as well as referring and consulting physicians. This solution helps to control the cost of healthcare, while simplifying and streamlining the secure distribution of the largest and most detailed radiological digital examinations in a manageable media format.
CoActiv EXAM-Sender®: an innovative, patent-pending, web-based application that can instantly transmit exams, reports and other information — automatically, securely and in a time-saving background mode — to referring doctors. Using government certified 128-bit encryption, patient exams will be instantly sent to the referring or consulting doctors, often before the patient leaves the hospital. This helps assure the most prompt and accurate healthcare diagnosis and treatment.
About CoActiv
CoActiv Medical Business Solutions is a software and systems provider to hospitals and imaging centers, offering a complete line of PACS, tele-radiology and DICOM utilities through their EXAM-PACS® picture archiving and communications system. EXAM-PACS® is an all-inclusive, affordable, enterprise PACS solution with image management tools designed and priced for easy integration into imaging facilities of all sizes. CoActiv also offers modular PACS components, which include the EXAM-Filer® CD-Burning Solution, EXAM-Vault® Archive Solution and the patent-pending EXAM-Sender® Referring Physician System that are available separately for integration into existing imaging facilities. Contact CoActiv at (203) 431-0002; www.coactiv.com.
CoActiv Medical can be contacted at 203 (431-0002); www.coactiv.com.
About Putnam Hospital Center
Since 1964, Putnam Hospital Center, in Carmel, has offered the residents of one of the fastest growing areas in New York State the full services of an acute care, not-for-profit hospital—quality medical, surgical, psychiatric, pediatric and obstetrical/gynecological care as well as 24-hour emergency services, home health care and community-based services. In addition, the county’s largest employer offers more than just a community hospital by providing outpatient renal dialysis, a pain management program, inpatient and outpatient mental health services, a sleep lab, wound care/hyperbaric, and home health services. In response to the area’s increasing demand for medical services, the hospital recently completed a major state-of-the-art facilities expansion with the construction of a new Birthing Center, Ambulatory Surgery/Outpatient Services facility and Emergency Department building. Plans are currently underway for the construction of a five-story patient tower that would house PHC’s formalized oncology program and cardiology services, private inpatient beds, and physician offices.
Contact Putnam Hospital Center at 845-279-5711, Ext. 3007; www.putnamhospital.org
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