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Michigan Hospital Upgrades Legacy Processes and Systems to Stay Ahead of the Curve -- Enhancing Patient Care and Clinical Productivity

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 General News
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GARDEN CITY, Mich., Aug. 25 A campus-wide picturearchiving communications system (PACS), a robust document imaging andmanagement system and a comprehensively redesigned Web site now reside atsoutheast Michigan's Garden City Hospital (GCH). Garden City Hospitalofficials expect the completion of the system upgrades, performed by thehospital's healthcare information technology service provider CareTechSolutions, will allow the hospital to provide better patient care and achievegreater levels of productivity.
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"Garden City Hospital's core mission is to provide personalized healthcarethat improves the well being of our patients and the community at large, andempowering our clinicians with the best technology directly supports ourability to provide excellent care," said Gary Ley, President and CEO of GardenCity Hospital. "We place tremendous value on CareTech Solutions' ability tounderstand our needs and strategically implement technology that improves ourhospital, and most importantly, helps our staff to provide the best patientcare possible."
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Completed in April 2008, Garden City Hospital's new PACS system, built byAmicas, Inc., enables electronic management of and remote access to medicalimages in the hospital's radiology department. A mere three months later,Garden City Hospital can boast that 75 percent of all medical images are nowviewable in the hospital's PACS and emergency room physicians can accomplishpreliminary radiological examinations significantly faster than the hospital'sprevious hardcopy-based system could allow.

Implemented in June 2008, a Web-based document imaging system, designedand built by CareTech Solutions, now securely stores, manages, retrieves anddistributes Garden City Hospital's medical, billing, payment and otherclinical documents electronically. iDoc(TM) helps to improve clinicians'access to information and the speed and quality of patient care, whilereducing costs. iDoc also provides GCH's authorized users instant retrievaland online document completion and signature anywhere there is Internetaccess.

Supporting Garden City Hospital's goal of providing a more interactive yetsimplified online experience, CareTech's work in redesigning the hospital'sWeb site (www.gchosp.org) to include its CareWorks CMS content managementsystem now incorporates advanced functionality into the site, including aphysician finder, an employment opportunity module, patient "e-greeting"cards, patient pre-registration, class registration, and an onlinemedical-equipment store. Garden City Hospital leaders report 500 new visitorsto the site per day.

"CareTech Solutions is proud to partner with Garden City Hospital to helpadvance its patient care strategy by bringing the benefits of technology tothe hospital's patients and staff," said Jim Giordano, president and CEO ofCareTech Solutions. "We thank Garden City Hospital for its longstandingrelationship with CareTech, and we look forward to continuing thatrelationship well into the future."

About Garden City Hospital

Located in Garden City, Michigan, Garden City Hospital providescomprehensive healthcare services, osteopathic medical education, andhealthcare related programs to the community at large. For more informationabout Garden City Hospital, please call (734) 458-3300 or visitwww.gchosp.org.

About CareTech Solutions, Inc.

CareTech Solutions, Inc., an information technology services provider forhospitals and health systems, is committed to creating value for clientsthrough customized, flexible solutions that contribute to improving patientcare while lowering healthcare costs. From implementing emerging technologiesto supporting day-to-day operations, CareTech offers clients expert servicesacross the entire patient data lifecycle.

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