Webinar: St. Luke’s rad and IT team chose enterprise imaging SaaS for a lot of reasons
Facing constraints on its ability to care for patients and bogged down with image access bottlenecks across the enterprise, St. Luke's University Health Network was determined to find a solution to lift the restraints and improve performance.
The 16-hospital, academic network in eastern Pennsylvania had outgrown its legacy PACS and things were about to get worse as they acquired another hospital nearby.
Adding thousands of new patients and wanting to connect all multi-ology images acquired on one platform, St. Luke’s did a deep dive. They realized that the health system was handling scans from over 30 specialties, across numerous modalities, but without a unified repository.
“St. Luke's was growing at an exponential rate,” says Raja Gali, director of IT business management and operations at St. Luke’s. “We wanted a platform that could work for us and would support our storage requirements.”
St. Luke’s put out an RFP, reviewed several solutions and chose a cloud-based, software-as-a-service enterprise imaging platform from Sectra, which unifies the many different -ologies within one VNA and viewer. And it’s all fully managed by the vendor.
Gali says the move is producing major cost savings, and not just because of the benefits of cloud. We’d love to have you join the Radiology Business team to learn more about St. Luke’s journey on a webinar and live Q&A discussion slated for Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 2-3 p.m. ET.
Gali will be joined by the St. Luke’s chair of radiology, CMIO, CIO and three IT leaders. They’ll talk through the advantages for patient care and radiologist recruiting, strategies on how much data to migrate and what options to look at closely in evaluating cloud migration options for enterprise imaging. Join us!
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.