Your PACS may have met your needs when it was originally purchased, but for today’s competitive environment it is likely falling significantly short of expectations. The reality is that you’re not as tied to your current PACS as you might think. GE Healthcare, Dynamic Imaging Solutions can affordably replace or augment your existing PACS and migrate your old studies, to improve your clinical operations and overall competitiveness. You’ve listened to the grumblings of your staff and referring physicians, and now is the time to take action.

Why PACS Rehab?
There are many reasons to rehab or replace your PACS, with institutions and radiology group practices no longer sitting back waiting for their PACS to live out its lifecycle, until the PACS can perform no more. PACS should not be the old clunker automobile that chokes and coughs black smoke as it moves down the street. Does your PACS spin its wheels and sputter on your imaging studies? If it does, it’s more than just an embarrassment, because it is negatively impacting your radiology business in more ways you can imagine. Just think, your referring physicians should not cross their fingers and hope that their results arrive timely, or for that matter, are even available when they open their PACS Web browsers for viewing images, reports and time sensitive clinical information.

Word of mouth travels extremely fast in healthcare circles, for both positive and negative experiences. You’re trying hard to retain your referral base by maintaining your pool of referring physicians and recruiting others away from your competitors. How are you doing this? The old fashioned way, by providing timely, thorough, excellent service to your referring physicians and the patients they care for. How can you possibly serve your customers with the best possible service when your PACS is failing them time and time again?

Industry experts have recognized this replacement PACS trend and have published dozens of articles for your reference. This trend is very much akin to the early days of PACS when your institution first purchased PACS to be a “first-mover” in your community. No longer is that advantage available as your competitors have likely purchased PACS too; however, now is your opportunity to be a first-mover in the next wave: the wave of modern, technologically advanced replacement PACS. Don’t sit on the sidelines any longer and instead, choose an opportunistic strategy. A PACS replacement strategy to once again capture that competitive advantage.

How Do I Know I Need a PACS Rehab?

Symptoms	First Generation PACS	Diagnosis
Poor Web-Access	Your PACS may have Web access, but it is likely a Web enabled approach with an appended Web server to a client/server PACS. Results are delivered both slowly and unreliably to your referring physicians, increasing their frustration.
Dropping Referrals	Referring physician frustration has caused you to lose market share to competitors who offer a higher level of service with more modern PACS and innovative marketing programs.
Big Iron	Your PACS requires numerous servers and subsystems that need to be managed by the local IT staff or even worse, by dedicated staff from your PACS vendor. This is very costly to maintain over time.
Thick Clients	The promise of PACS is to do more with less, and to operate more efficiently. But with workstations that have limited or no portability, your radiologists are still virtually tied to their workstations for the majority of the power of the PACS.
Poor Functionality	Legacy PACS that has been updated year over year is riddled with outdated code. Imagine a PACS that is completely portable, with all of the power of the diagnostic workstation available at your fingertips wherever you are in the world?
No Scale	Your PACS cannot keep up with the latest imaging modalities creating X,000 images per exam, the latest modality data types, and the increasing study volume your institution is experiencing.
Non-Standard CDs	Your CDs may be proprietary, run a different viewer than the PACS, your physicians cannot burn CDs locally and they do not support the IHE PDI standard increasing referring physician frustration.
Inflexible Integration	Your PACS cannot easily integrate to clinical applications for orthopedics, digital mammography, PET/CT, nuclear medicine, advanced visualization, and more.
Poor Support	Your PACS vendor’s attention to your practice is no longer what it once was. They’re slow to deliver updates/upgrades and are no longer keeping you competitive.

Why GE Healthcare - Dynamic Imaging Solutions?
It’s no secret GE Healthcare, Dynamic Imaging Solutions set the standard for advanced, Web-based PACS with Centricity PACS-IW being top ranked in both MD Buyline and KLAS. Our solutions are also attractively priced, at a fraction of what you might otherwise expect. GE Healthcare, Dynamic Imaging Solutions is a leader in PACS replacement with more than 25% of our 600+ global installations as second and third generation PACS users. This statistic is very telling for GE Healcare IT, Dynamic Imaging Solutions customers know best why their first generation PACS stopped delivering and why Centricity PACS-IW gives them business and clinical advantages for competitive success.

We also recognize that not all institutions are prepared to replace their PACS, but instead are looking to augment their existing PACS with a powerful Web distribution system to deliver optimal results to referring physicians. That is why we developed Centricity OutReach-IW, to meet the needs of institutions that are in the midst of long-term PACS contracts, or are simply not ready to separate from their PACS vendor just yet, but know they need to do something to stay competitive.

If you’d like to learn more, simply send an information request stating your interest in learning about our Centricity -IW solutions, and we’ll be in touch shortly.