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INTEGRIS Health Ranks Top 25 Connected Health Care Facility

August 6, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY – INTEGRIS Health’s metro hospitals ranked in the top 25 among health care organizations that are wired with high technology imaging and patient information systems, for the third year in a row. Health Imaging and IT, a national health care and technology publication, reviewed nominations representing more than 600 health care facilities with a common goal of creating a seamless path for incoming and outgoing patient information. INTEGRIS Baptist and Southwest Medical Centers were the only Oklahoma facilities ranked in the top 25. The hospitals were recognized as leaders in the use of PACS – picture archiving and communications systems.

INTEGRIS Baptist and Southwest Medical Centers have been using the PACS system for more than six years. The digital technology has created a more efficient and organized method of reviewing patient data.

“PACS has virtually eliminated the traditional use of X-ray film,” says Phil Lance, metro vice-president, INTEGRIS Health. “By using digital diagnostic images, our clinical staff can obtain the information almost instantly.”

“Before digital technology, we relied on film. To view the patient’s information on that one piece of film required a wait to exchange and share it. Having images now digitally managed, the patient’s physician, surgeon, radiologist and other health care providers can get the information when they need it,” says Lance. “Radiologists can also do more with the information. They can magnify images and conduct online consultations with other clinicians. The technology has helped us improve patient care.”

Health Imaging and IT used several factors to differentiate the top 25 winners including percentage of the facility that is filmless, percentage of procedures that are digital, the number of modalities and departments that share images, and the ability of in-network physicians and referring physicians to access electronic images. U.S. health care organizations spent $19.1 billion on IT in 2006 and will spend $20.4 billion this year. By 2010, that number will increase by nearly 25 percent to $25.5 billion.

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