AMC Now Has New Digital Device to Read Medical Images

SARANAC LAKE  - In a major move toward innovation and efficiency, Adirondack Medical Center's Medical Imaging Department has recently installed new equipment that eliminates radiographic (x-ray) film.  Known as PACS (Picture Archiving & Communications System), the new system processes radiographs digitally for fast and confidential viewing on AMC radiologists' and technicians' computer screens using high-resolution monitoring software.

      PACS is a new technology that hospitals are using to improve the management of patient information, and to provide greater clinical quality.  PACS allows the radiologist to download patients' imaging studies, including radiographs, shortly after they are performed.  The images are then saved, archived, and can be confidentially called up by physicians from any location via the Internet. 

      "PACS impacts our patients' care by providing faster results, yielding faster implementation of adjustments in care, and an improved healing process," says Carl Larsen, Administrative Director of Medical Imaging at AMC.  "It also means that more than one doctor can access the images at the same time."

Within AMC, doctors and caregivers can confidentially view the images in many different areas including both of the hospital's emergency departments, every surgical and medical unit, the operating room, the ICU, and the Medical Imaging Department (Radiology).  Physicians are also able to view their patients' images in their own home or office, yet the information is secured on a web server, and can only be accessed from a remote site by the physician or caregiver using a confidential user name and password.

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