Radiology and Imaging Specialists (RIS) needed to replace their legacy PACS system to improve patient care across their large network of facilities. They implemented Mach7's Enterprise Imaging Platform to unify patient records, allow full access to studies for radiologists and referring physicians, and automate specialty workflows. The new system provides a comprehensive view of patient records, intelligent routing of studies, and a single dashboard for simplified study management across the enterprise.

1. Radiology and Imaging Specialists
Automates Specialty Workflows
across their Enterprise with Mach7
Enterprise Imaging Platform
With study volumes exceeding 700,000 annually, Central Florida’s Radiology and Imaging
Specialists (RIS) needed to replace their legacy PACS to reach a new level of patient care.
Goals
»» Improve study management, access, and control
across a diverse network of facilities, reading
groups, partnering hospitals, and physician
practices.
»» Unify patient records across their ecosystem
breaking the proprietary lock older PACS
architectures and referring facilities had in place.
»» Allow referring physicians and radiologists to have
full access to a patient’s care record including
prior studies. Support for DICOM and non-DICOM
formats was required including support of advanced
visualization tools.
»» Positively impact study interpretation, diagnosis,
and patient satisfaction; all key performance
indicators for RIS.
Action Plan
»» Build a unified, cross-department and facility flow of
study information to limit requirements for manual
intervention.
»» Leverage the power of a vendor neutral archive
(VNA) to take all types of patient data (DICOM and
non-DICOM) and assign patient level identification.
»» Efficiently import, export, and manage resident
and non-resident study data and improve
synchronization of this data with patient care
histories and with supported EMRs.
»» Integrate universal clinical viewing and support
plug-and-play advanced visualization tools allowing
diagnostic viewing freedom without requiring total
migration of studies from one archive and storage
technology to another.
CASE STUDY
Results
»» Intelligent Routing: Universal study
management is being delivered using Mach7’s
Communication and Workflow Engine. Study
routing and management now support clinically-
specific and complex workflows automatically.
»» Study Consolidation and Enterprise Patient
Identification: Patient data is consolidated at
an enterprise level offering a complete view of
the patient record regardless of which clinic the
patient visits.
»» Comprehensive View of the Patient Record:
Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform and Mach7’s
universal Clinical Viewer allow access to the
full patient record helping radiologists better
interpret studies and improve diagnosis,
positively impacting outcomes and improving
patient satisfaction.
»» Simplified Study Management: A unified single
dashboard for all image data is being deployed
providing visibility into study flow across the
enterprise and overall daily operational analysis
(i.e., study volume, flow, rate, speed, etc.).

2. About Radiology and Imaging
Specialists
Radiology and Imaging Specialists has provided imaging
services for more than 40 years. They have grown to become
one of Central Florida’s leading radiology providers. Radiology
and Imaging Specialists has approximately 24 physicians and
five imaging centers and are affiliated with Lakeland Regional
Medical Center, Winter Haven Hospital, Bartow Regional
Medical Center, Bert Fish Medical Center, South Florida Baptist
Hospital, Gessler Clinic, and Bond Clinic.
The Challenge
A successful imaging center requires interoperability across
disparate referring facilities and a mix of vendor acquisition
devices and visualization systems. Universal, standards-
based VNA platforms like Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform
enable communication, drive new revenue channels, speed
diagnosis, and reduce storage carrying costs and network
latency, helping healthcare organizations like RIS achieve their
business and patient management goals
As an example, RIS partnered with a cancer center to improve
prostate cancer diagnosis and biopsy protocols. Through a
specialized clinical workflow, a RIS radiologist acquires an
MRI of the prostate (as a diagnostic tool), maps out the area of
interest and sends the study to the cancer center. The cancer
center urologist can then overlay the 3D MRI data set onto
their ultrasound biopsy unit and use the MRI as a roadmap to
perform a targeted biopsy of the prostate. Before deployment
of the Mach7 solution, that workflow was completely manual
and required clinicians to push studies to the proper viewing
workstations for both the radiologist during study mapping
and for the urologist during procedure visualization.
With Mach7’s solution suite, this highly specialized workflow
will be completely automated. Studies will be directly
and automatically routed to each location when needed
and loaded onto the specialty viewers required by each
physician. “With one upgrade in how we manage and store
studies, we are impacting the cancer center, radiologist,
urologist, clinicians, and the patient – that is at least five key
stakeholders. This updated flow of information will mean
the radiologist’s information flows directly to the urologist
prepping for the biopsy, all with no manual intervention.
We shrink the overall timeframe and remove human error
elements – all enabled by Mach7’s platform. This was simply
not possible with our legacy proprietary PACS,” noted David
Marichal, chief technology officer at RIS.
“Our PACS vendors all proposed schemes to
improve our workflow and imaging access, but
we needed a more powerful, newer architected
archive and communication system to help us
with the data flows. Mach7 Enterprise Imaging
Platform will give us so much more power
because it can deal with all types of image
data sets. That is what we need, along with
study data normalization, consolidation, and
correlation across our enterprise.”
David Marichal
CTO, Radiology and Imaging Specialists
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“Mach7 delivered a unified single dashboard for our image data that we’ve never had before. This
is a powerful tool to help us manage our imaging data. We’ll finally have visibility into how many
studies we’re moving a day, more insight into our operations, and a view of how our images are
moving across the enterprise. From a radiology IT perspective, we’ll have unprecedented access
to analytics and control of our image data – access that will directly impact our business, our
clinicians, physicians, and our patients. That is a very powerful tool to manage our images.”
- David Marichal, CTO, Radiology and Imaging Specialists
About Mach7 Technologies™
Mach7 Technologies is a global provider of enterprise image management solutions that allow healthcare
enterprises to easily identify, connect and share diagnostic image and patient care intelligence where and
when it is needed. Mach7’s innovative communication and workflow technology delivers complete image
management including rapid record identification, integration, synchronization and routing, advanced
clinical viewing and optimized vendor-neutral archiving across the enterprise. Healthcare institutions around
the world use Mach7 solutions for archiving, clinical productivity improvement, IT cost savings, health
information exchange, meaningful use compliance, and improved patient data communication.