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SCAR 2004
Hospital Tours
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Tour 1:
Vancouver General Hospital |
Tour
3: Mount Saint Joseph Hospital |
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Tour
2: St. Paul’s Hospital
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Tour
4: Royal Columbian Hospital
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Attendees of SCAR 2004
will have the opportunity to register for tours of Vancouver General
Hospital (VGH), St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH), Mt. St. Joseph Hospital (MSJ),
and Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH). Tour descriptions are available at the
bottom of this page.
Each institution has
different vendors and configurations giving participants an overview of
several system solutions.
Tours will be offered as follows: |
| Tour
2 – SPH, Tour 3 – MSJ, Tour 4 – RCH |
| Friday,
May 21, 2004 |
1:30
PM – 3:30 PM |
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3:30
PM – 5:30 PM |
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| Tour
1 – VGH, Tour 2 – SPH, Tour 3 – MSJ, Tour 4 – RCH |
| Saturday,
May 22, 2004 |
1:30
PM – 3:30 PM |
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3:30
PM – 5:30 PM |
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Bus transportation will
be provided from the main entrance of the Vancouver Convention and
Exhibition Centre at Canada Place to each of the medical centers. A
tour of any one facility will last approximately one hour. Tours
require advance registration and your tour times will be sent to you with
your registration confirmation. Please make your tour selections
on the meeting registration form. There is no additional fee,
but space is limited and tours will be assigned on a first-come
first-serve basis. You may pre-register for up to two tours. |
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If taking two tours, it
is recommended that tours not be scheduled back-to-back, since
participants must ride the bus back to the Vancouver Convention Exhibition
Centre before boarding another bus for the next tour. |
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| Established
in 1886, Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), part of Vancouver Coastal
Health, is the major quaternary patient care, teaching and research
hospital in British Columbia. VGH is a 775-bed facility offering a
comprehensive range of medical and surgical services and community
outreach. |
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Radiology Department at VGH offers a full selection of diagnostic
services, utilizing over 75 imaging systems ranging from MR (2), CT (5),
ultrasound (12), and nuclear medicine (8), as well as a wide range of
angiographic, digital fluoroscopy and radiographic units. The department
has a floor area of 65,000 square feet and is housed in a purpose-built,
three year old facility. Each year, over 250,000 exams are
performed, and read by a team of sub-specialized radiologists. Using an
AGFA-based PACS solution, VGH Radiology is a 99 percent filmless
environment. Radiologists use 26 IMPAX diagnostic workstations.
Image distribution to many locations throughout the hospital is handled
through a dedicated web server running WEB 1000. At the end of 2003, VGH
was using about 1Tb of on-line cache (disk), while long-term storage
(tape) totaled approximately 4Tb. Some 400 users have diagnostic
workstation log-ins, while approximately 1,200 have WEB 1000 access.
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tour includes:
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- Introductory
talk: Integration and Workflow at VGH Radiology, including regional
futures
- Inpatient
Radiology - DR/CR, demos of workflow and image stitching
- Musculo-skeletal
(MSK) reporting room - radiologist workflow, CD burning
- CT4
- 16 slice modality, technologist workflow, 3D processing, special
applications
- Film
Library – advantages and challenges of electronic image management
including an OR PACS Web viewer dual monitor system in film library
reception area
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VGH Vendors:
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Agfa
Healthcare Corporation
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IDX
Systems Corporation
· Ormis
(OR), MiSys (Lab) |
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Tour
2
- St.
Paul’s Hospital
(SPH) |
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| Established
in 1894, St. Paul’s Hospital is a tertiary/quaternary care teaching and
research hospital affiliated with the University of British Columbia.
St. Paul’s serves patients from throughout the province as well
as the unique needs of those from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The
largest of Providence Health Care’s eight facilities, St. Paul’s has 406
acute care beds and is home to extensive research and teaching programs.
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1998 St. Paul’s Department of Radiology became one of the first
hospitals in Canada to adopt PACS.
Since then, the Radiology Department has evolved from a film-based
to a filmless, fully integrated PACS system. This was accomplished in the
existing structure with limited support staff and financial resources.
As a distribution system, it includes 17 servers, standard
workstations throughout the radiology, referring departments and
conference areas, two master databases, and is uniquely
monitored on a 24/7, 365 days-a-year basis.
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| The tour includes: |
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A
filmess, fully integrated PACS system transformed from film-based to
filmless and built from the ground up in a cost-effective manner, with
limited resources
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A
look at the ultrasound department and the innovative technology
adapted to make the department completely filmless. The department has
a variety of state-of-the-art ultrasound systems and is completely
DICOM, using full Worklist and PACS functionality
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A
detailed demonstration of a unique-function display terminal that
applies CT CAD technology for the early detection of suspicious lung
nodules
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SPH Vendors:
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Intelerad
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GE
Medical Systems
· Philips
Medical Systems
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Aloka
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Siemens
Medical Solutions
· SonoSite
· Vitrea |
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Saint Joseph Hospital, a part of Providence Health Care, is a 208 bed
multicultural community hospital located in the Mount Pleasant district of
East Vancouver. The Medical Imaging department supports three radiologists
and hosts a dozen teleradiography sites from remote regions all across
British Columbia.
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include: general radiography, ultrasound, CT, and mammography. The PACS
has three diagnostic workstations and features Web-based image
distribution. Full connectivity is maintained with the parent site,
St. Paul's Hospital, and to a limited degree, with the BC Cancer Agency.
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A
hands-on look at workflow in a small community hospital setting, and
how the digital environment has transformed many clerical,
technologist and radiologist duties
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Detailed
demonstrations of CR, from image acquisition through post-processing
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A
demonstration of PACS/RIS integrated Speech Recognition reporting
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A
look at how a small hospital can affect patient care in remote areas
of the province through teleradiography
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MSJ
Vendors:
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Agfa
Healthcare Corporation
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GE
Medical Systems
· e-Film
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Eclipsys |
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Tour
4 - Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) |
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| In
November 2003, the Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) was the first of
12 Fraser Health sites to ‘go live’ with PACS. Fraser
Health, situated Greater Vancouver’s Lower Mainland, serves one
third of the provincial population. This health system based its
PACS project on a utility model design and access by way of a
high-speed network. The single database design permits use of one
master patient index across the enterprise. Overall, the intent
of the project is to achieve a 98% film-less environment for all
clinical areas in the region within an 18 month transition process.
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RCH provides tertiary level services (neurosurgical, trauma and
interventional cardiac procedures), producing about 100,000 exams per year
using the following modalities; general radiography, ultrasound, CT, MRI,
Angiography. The PACS project includes diagnostic workstations at all
on-site reading areas, Web-based image distribution throughout each
hospital site and off-site connectivity to physician offices.
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A
short video will be played during transport from conference
pick-up to site drop-off, providing delegates with an overview of
the Fraser Health region, CR overview and the PACS project
planning, roll-out and transition process.
Tour
Themes:
1.
Planning and Preparation
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Changes
in workflow, defining needs
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Selecting
vendors, equipment and product selection
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Integration of Technologies and Supports
3.
Bracing for Change
4.
Unexpected Problems, Unexpected Benefits
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Fraser
Health Authority Vendors (as demonstrated at RCH):
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GE
Medical Systems
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Agfa
Healthcare Corporation
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EMC ·
Telus ·
Meditech |
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