The radiology department at Baton Rouge General Medical Center takes pride in using advanced technologies to offer top-notch care to patients and unparalleled service to referring physicians.

1. Case Study
Baton Rouge General
Medical Center
Stays at the Forefront of Care with
At a Glance Leading-Edge Physician Portal and
Organization Medical Imaging Technology
Baton Rouge General The radiology department at a few years ago, leaders wanted to
Medical Center Baton Rouge General Medical take the subsequent step.
Baton Rouge, La. Center takes pride in using
– Not-for-profit, advanced technologies to offer “To successfully compete in our
community-owned hospital top-notch care to patients and marketplace, you have to share
– 544 beds unparalleled service to referring information and images quickly
physicians. With this proactive with the physician community,”
– 2 locations approach, the not-for-profit says Gerard Barrilleaux, director
– 3,000 employees hospital has experienced many of Medical Imaging. “Sharing
clinical, financial and operational information and images is
Solution Spotlight benefits. Baton Rouge General becoming even more important
Medical Center has reduced as organizations strive to meet
– Horizon Medical ImagingTM film costs by $500,000; decreased the meaningful-use requirements
– Horizon CardiologyTM report turnaround time to less associated with tapping into the
– HorizonWP® Physician Portal than three hours; and improved federal stimulus incentives.”
physician satisfaction by offering
single-source access to all needed Answers
Critical Issues clinical information. To make digitized images
– Imaging costs more valuable, leaders at the
– Clinical decision-making Challenges medical center concentrated on
– Access to information Baton Rouge General Medical implementing technologies that
Center’s radiology department would quickly disperse images
– Physician alignment across the enterprise.
stays in front of the technology
curve. It was the first in the
Results country to operate a radiation As a result, the organization
– Eliminated $500,000 in annual therapy unit; the first in the installed HorizonWP® Physician Portal
film costs region to offer endoscopic from McKesson. The Web gateway
ultrasound; and the first in enables access to images created
– Decreased radiology report from a variety of modalities,
turnaround time from 12 to Louisiana to offer portable
digital radiology systems — including CT, MRI and ultrasound.
18 hours to three hours or less The portal provides physicians with
technology that enables clinicians
– Improved physician satisfaction to view images in high definition secure access to data throughout
by offering single-source at the point of care. the enterprise, inpatient and
access to all needed clinical outpatient information, and
information The organization’s technology- personalized views of information
– Positioned the organization to focused approach prompts leaders according to workflow needs.
take advantage of government to constantly ask: “What’s next?”
incentives and to participate For example, even though the “We were surprised at how easy it is
in HIEs medical center reaped positive to get images uploaded into the
results from the implementation portal from modality to modality.”
of medical imaging systems relays Barrilleaux. “It truly is
plug-and-play technology.”

2. Case Study
“To successfully compete in Results with their organizations to succeed
Taking a proactive approach has in financially challenging times.
our marketplace, you have Imaging reports are available in just
paid off in both realized and
got to share images quickly. anticipated benefits for the two to three hours, compared to
medical center. the 12 to 18 hours it previously
And sharing this information took to get reports in a film-based
First, the organization increased environment.
is becoming even more
productivity and reduced costs a few
important as organizations years ago after implementing two “The physicians really appreciate
systems from McKesson: Horizon being able to get all patient
strive to meet the meaningful- Medical ImagingTM, a picture information from one spot,”
archiving and communication notes David Hastings, director of
use requirements associated Information Technology. “As a
system (PACS), and Horizon
with tapping into the federal CardiologyTM, a cardiovascular result, they can make better medical
information system (CVIS). decisions because they have a
stimulus incentives.” complete picture of the patient.”
Because images are available
electronically, the medical center Making images readily available
Gerard Barrilleaux no longer spends $500,000 electronically is setting the stage for
per year on film, and images are future success. For example, such
Director of Medical Imaging no longer lost or misplaced. access could help Baton Rouge
General Medical Center meet the
Baton Rouge General meaningful-use requirements
These systems make images readily
Medical Center available from any location, which associated with the government’s
means the medical center no longer electronic health record (EHR)
has to staff a radiologist at each adoption incentives.
campus around the clock because
images can be accessed from any “The stimulus incentive is all about
location. In addition, the PACS leveraging technology to make
made it possible to use radiology information and data available
subspecialists, such as board- electronically to doctors — and
certified pediatric radiologists PACS is a huge part of that,”
and neuro-radiologists, without states Hastings. “We feel we are
requiring that these professionals well-positioned to take advantage
travel to multiple locations. of the stimulus dollars in 2011
because of the progress we’ve made
More importantly, with the with our electronic records.”
addition of the physician portal, the
radiology department now provides Additionally, the medical center
improved service to referring expects electronic access will pay off
physicians — a chief consideration when it begins participation in a
as more hospitals align physicians health information exchange (HIE).
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