Saint Francis Occupational Health Center has selected CoActiv Exam-Essentials Plus for the ongoing management of x-ray images as part of its conversion from film to digital imaging. The facility evaluates patients for work-related injuries and provides immediate care as well as ongoing physical therapy. Saint Francis needed easy-to-use, cost-effective technology that would enable it to evaluate images quickly and transmit them to its offsite radiology group for diagnostic reading.
Exam-Essentials speeds Saint Francis exams digitally to its offsite radiology group for reading. In the past, hard copy films were transported by an in-house delivery van to the reading location, with time delay and added expense. Now, exam results are delivered through CoActiv’s advanced communications technology. This enables faster treatment and also adds a new level of convenience for patients, who no longer need to wait for a phone call or return to the facility to obtain their results.
Saint Francis also installed a direct Internet connection enabling a remote radiologist specializing in asbestos-exposure cases to log on and read these specialized films using the CoActiv system.
