Baylor College of Medicine Declares DCMSYS Dicom and HL7 Workflow Routing Appliances 'a Win' for Patients

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- When Baylor College of Medicine wanted to improve transmission times across their teleradiology network, they found that Dicom Systems solution was "a win for teleradiology sites, for our teleradiologists, for IT and, most importantly, for the patients" (Executive Director, BCM).

At Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas), Teleradiology is a key revenue, instructional and community outreach function for providing specialty reads, comparisons and external interpretations. To allow flexibility, BCM routes all images from teleradiology sites to the BCM PACS system so that radiologists can read data on one familiar system from any site on the network. Image transmission times, report turnaround times, image quality, and collaboration between Radiology and IT are vital to patient safety, and to the success and sustainability of this model.

BCM started with a site-to-site VPN model for secure image transmission from remote teleradiology sites to the BCM PACS. This model is secure, but multiple third-party vendors, firewalls, and configurations are required. This had caused some problems, including unpredictable costs and time in setting up and maintenance, and when the system went wrong it was difficult to troubleshoot. Plus transmission times were dependent on the Internet connection and other competing traffic at the teleradiology site.

The Dicom Systems solution

BCM needed a 100% dependable model with central management by BCM's IT department to troubleshoot and fix problems. Dicom Systems analyzed their requirements and found that DCMSYS routers were the perfect solution: they are fixed cost and can be installed and set up quickly, plus they can be set up with redundancy and failover for high availability. Transmission over the TLS is secure without the need for a S2S VPN tunnel and the associated overhead, and images can be compressed, resent, and managed from a single web interface through the PACS support group.

The system has proved highly successful. Philip Beckett, Executive Director at BCM, explained that: "These routers reduced transmission times for large studies from over two hours to less than 15 minutes at one site - enabling us to provide real-time remote coverage with no radiologist physically on site. This will be our model for all our teleradiology sites."

About Dicom Systems, Inc.

Dicom Systems offer a 100% secure web-based DICOM and HL7 routing and interface engine appliance for hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers. Their proprietary technology dramatically simplifies the client's IT structure by applying industry standard protocols, such as SNMP, SSL/TLS, DICOM and HL7, thus enabling users staggeringly quick and effective access to information regardless of their physical location within the enterprise. Trusted by top healthcare facilities, and providing the most effective integrated workflow in digital imaging, San Francisco-based Dicom Systems ensures that doctors, practitioners and diagnosticians have the most reliable and most immediate access to patient data from across their Healthcare Enterprises. Dicom Systems' unique statistical gateway feature allows every level of user to benefit from historical graphs and statistics in order to manage their Teleradiology network.

In short: Dicom Systems' unique technology can significantly simplify and improve your IT structures, and provide a highly efficient and cost-effective solution to enterprise communications.

About Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine (http://www.bcm.edu) in Houston is a premier academic health science center and is known for excellence in education, research and patient care. It is the only private medical school in the greater southwest and is ranked as one of the top 25 medical schools for research in the U.S. (News & World Report). BCM is listed 13th among all U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, and 2nd for federal funding for research and development in the biological sciences by the National Science Foundation. Located in the Texas Medical Center, BCM has affiliations with eight teaching hospitals, each known for medical excellence. BCM currently trains more than 3,000 medical, graduate, nurse anesthesia, and physician assistant students, as well as residents and post-doctoral fellows. BCM is also home to the Baylor Clinic, an adult clinical practice that includes advanced technologies for faster, more accurate diagnosis and treatment, access to the latest clinical trials and discoveries, and groundbreaking healthcare based on proven research.

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