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| SCAR 2006 Tours |
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Tours – Back by Popular Demand!
SCAR
2006 attendees will have the opportunity to participate in tours of
Austin facilities, each providing an overview of different system
solutions.
Austin
Radiological Association (ARA) will sponsor this year’s facility
tours. ARA
operates 15 Outpatient Imaging Centers and provides radiology services
to 15 area hospitals. ARA performs 1.2 million outpatient and inpatient
exams annually. ARA’s Imaging Centers have been on PACS since 2002
enabling subspecialty interpretations over a 6-county area. More than
2,000 referring physicians have Internet access to images and reports.
ARA’s fiber optic WAN is second in size in Austin only to Dell; Free
Space Optics (FSO) is used at 6 locations. ARA utilizes document imaging
for medical and business office functions, speech recognition for
outpatient reporting, centralized scheduling, single sign-on software,
and IP telephony throughout the enterprise. We provide PACS to the
largest hospital network in Austin via an Application Service Provider
(ASP) model.
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Bus
Transportation will be provided from the Trinity Street entrance of
the Austin Convention Center. Please be at the designated
departure location 10 minutes before your scheduled tour time. A
tour of any one facility will last 45-60 minutes. Tours require
advance registration and many of the tour times have reached their
full capacity. Please check for tour availability at the SCAR
Registration Desk, Hilton Austin Hotel, 6th Floor, to make selection
on-site.
If
you have previously registered for a tour and find that you will be
unable to participate, please turn your reservation ticket in to the
SCAR Registration Desk so that others may participate.
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following facilities will be included on the tours: |
- ARA
Quarry Lake Outpatient Location
- ARA
Data Center
- ARA
Midtown Outpatient Location
- University
of Texas Imaging Lab
- ARA
Centralized After Hours Read Site
- Seton
Hospital Radiology Department
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Schedule:
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| Friday,
April 28 |
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| 1:00
pm – 3:00 pm |
Tour
1A |
Tour
2A |
Tour
3A |
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ARA
Data Center |
ARA
Quarry Lake Outpatient |
Centralized
After Hours Read Site &
Seton Medical Center |
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| 3:00
pm – 5:00 pm |
Tour
1B |
Tour
2B |
Tour
3B |
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ARA
Data Center |
U.T.
Imaging Lab |
ARA
Midtown Outpatient
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| Saturday,
April 29 |
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| 1:00
pm – 3:00 pm |
Tour
1C |
Tour
2C |
Tour
3C |
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ARA
Data Center |
ARA
Quarry Lake Outpatient |
Centralized
After Hours Read Site & Seton Medical Center |
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| 3:00
pm – 5:00 pm |
Tour
1D |
Tour
2D |
Tour
3D |
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ARA
Data Center |
U.T.
Imaging Lab |
ARA
Midtown Outpatient |
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| Shuttle
bus transportation will be provided from the Austin Convention Center to
each of the facilities. All
facility tours require advance registration.
Please make your tour selection(s) on the meeting registration
form. Your tour time will be sent to you with your registration
confirmation. Space is limited and will be assigned on a first-come,
first-served basis. You may pre-register for up to two tours. If you
plan to register for two tours, it is recommended that tours not be
scheduled back-to-back. There is no additional fee for this
participation.
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| Tours
1A, 1B, 1C & 1D
ARA
Data Center |
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Radiological Association recently relocated and expanded its data center
to the facility in use today. The
new facility features improved cooling, redundant fire control systems,
additional space to accommodate our growing ASP business, 24x7 security
monitoring, and help desk availability.
A “warm” business-continuity/redundant data center is located
25 miles away. The storage
network, long-term disk archive, application servers, network equipment,
Help Desk, and IT support functions are located at the Data Center.
ARA
has won awards on its ability to deploy and use leading edge technology
including the 2002 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Visionary Use of
Information Technology in Medicine, and a 2005 Network World Enterprise
All-Star Award for our use of free-space optics.
Tour
includes:
Introductory
talk: Logical overview of
Data Center highlighting redundancy and disaster recovery methods.
Demonstration:
Tour of ARA Data Center
ARA
Data Center Vendors:
- Fuji
PACS (Synapse)
- EMC
Corporation
- IDX
Systems RIS & Document Imaging
- Zetafax
(centralized fax solution)
- Provox
Speech Recognition
- Cisco
Systems
- Time
Warner Telecom
- TeraRecon
Thin Client Server
- Lightpointe
Free Space Optics
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Tours
2A & 2C
ARA
Quarry Lake Outpatient Location |
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Quarry Lake Imaging Center is one of our newest multiple modality sites,
providing MDCT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, mammography, and CR
services. It communicates with our nearby data center via a 100 Mb FSO
link.
Tour
includes:
Introductory
talk: Integration and
workflow at Quarry Lake
Demonstration:
Document Imaging / Digitizing workflow
Dual
Reading Room - PACS and
Voice Recognition workflow.
CT
& MRI Outpatient workflow: Review
of CT and MRI workflow.
ARA
Outpatient Site Vendors:
- Fuji
PACS (Synapse) & CR
- EMC
Corporation
- IDX
Systems RIS & Document Imaging
- Zetafax
(centralized faxing solution)
- Provox
Speech Recognition
- Siemens
CT/MRI and Nuclear
- TeraRecon
Workstation & Thin Client Application
- Lightpointe
Free Space Optics
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| Tours
2B & 2D
University
of Texas Imaging Lab
Computational Visualization
Center (CVC) |
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Computational Visualization Center (CVC) within the Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas
at Austin is a cross-disciplinary effort whose mission is to develop and
improve the core technologies for comprehensive computational modeling,
simulation, analysis, and visualization of natural and synthetic
phenomena, and then utilize them as an integrated tool for rapid
discovery. Its current focus is on computational biological sciences,
particularly in the area of Bio-Modeling and Visualization. Bio-Modeling
and Visualization have roots in medical illustration and communication
for the health sciences, with branches of application to mathematical
modeling and computer simulation of artificial life. This subject spans
biological phenomena at multiple spatial and time scales enabling the
programmatic use of simulation and visualization to quantitatively
depict “how things work” at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and
organ level scales. Its current director is SCAR Member Professor
Chandra Bajaj.
The
visualization laboratory facility is managed by TACC and provides an
end-to-end infrastructure for data intensive and display intensive
computing. The large multi-projected display areas provide unparalleled
interactive and immersive visual exploration, supported by parallel data
analysis and graphics rendering supercomputers where digital data stream
manipulation, storage and switching occur with maximum bandwidth.
Tour
includes:
Overview
of high performance computational and visualization facilities, and
interactive demos of current research in the computational biological
sciences.
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Tours
3A & 3C (two locations
combined into one tour)
ARA Centralized After Hours Read Site
Seton Medical Center Radiology Department |
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location – ARA Centralized After Hours Read Site
Located
adjacent to one of our main hospitals, ARA has a centralized location
for handling all after hour’s cases for 15 hospitals. Staffed by from
1-3 radiologists, the site has four PACS workstations; at the center is
a full-time clerical assistant (Clerical Physician’s Liaison) in the
main communications seat. This liaison assists in managing all incoming
requests and many outgoing reports and facilitates communications
between hospitals, referring physicians, and radiologists. This site was
designed to be a highly efficient and comfortable work environment.
Primary interpretations are dictated into the transcription systems of
all 15 area hospitals. Hospital
cases are handled from 5:00 pm – 8:00 am during weekdays and during
all hours on weekends with an average report turnaround time of 18
minutes.
Introductory
talk: Overview of set up,
design and workflow of the After Hours Read Site.
ARA
After Hours Read Site Vendors:
- Fuji
(Synapse)
- EMC
Corporation
- IDX
Systems RIS & Document Imaging
- IDX
Document Imaging
- Zetafax
(centralized faxing solution)
- Provox
Speech Recognition for outpatient studies
- Integrated
dictations systems for hospitals with Lanier and Meditech
2nd
location - Seton Medical Center Radiology Department
Seton
Medical Center (SMC), a part of the Seton Healthcare Network, is a
502-bed medical/surgical acute care center offering comprehensive
diagnostic and treatment services for both inpatients and outpatients.
The Seton Healthcare Network is a member of Ascension Health and
has been serving Austin and the surrounding communities since 1902.
SMC
offers a full range of imaging services including general radiography
(CR), ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and special procedures. All
the modalities send to a centralized PACS provided by a local ASP. The
PACS archive connects all 10 Seton facilities that have imaging
departments, which include not only 4 acute care hospitals but also
rural hospitals and outpatient centers.
Tours
include:
Introductory
talk: Workflow in a hospital environment and distributed approach to
PACS support.
Demonstration:
Integration between the HIS, RIS, PACS, and modalities using CR with
modality work list.
Emergency
room workflow with PACS.
SMC
Vendors:
- Austin
Radiological Association (PACS ASP)
- Dell
Professional Services
- Fuji
PACS (Synapse) & CR
- IDX
RIS System
- Cerner
- Siemens
CT
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3B & 3D
ARA
Midtown Outpatient Location |
| Midtown
is also one of our newest sites. It has Austin’s first PET/CT scanner,
and was the first site in Austin to offer 64-slice coronary CT
angiography in December 2004. Midtown additionally provides MRI,
ultrasound, cassette-less CR, and outpatient interventional procedures
in a dedicated special procedures room. Midtown communicates with
ARA’s fiber optic WAN via a 100 Mb FSO link to a nearby Imaging Center
network hub, which has a 300Mb MetroEthernet connection.
Tour
includes:
Introductory
talk: Integration and workflow at Midtown.
Demonstration:
Document Imaging/Digitizing workflow
Reading
Room - PACS and Voice recognition workflow.
At
this location we have the following sub-specialist; Neuro, PET/Nuc
Med, and Interventional.
Outpatient
Interventional: Procedures performed such as: EVLT’s, Chest Ports,
Angiography, Dialysis Access, Biopsies, etc.
PET/CT
& Nuc Med Department: PET/CT 16 workflow and 2 Dual Head and 1
Single Head Nuclear Medicine Cameras
ARA
Outpatient Site Vendors:
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