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Emageon To Provide Enterprise
Diagnostic Imaging Management Solution To LibertyHealth and New
State-of-the-Art Medical Center
New Enterprise Clinical Image Management and Distribution System
will Enhance Patient Care and Provide a More Efficient Work Environment
for Physicians and Medical Personnel
Birmingham, AL (April 2, 2003) -- Emageon, a leading provider
of enterprise solutions for diagnostic imaging, announced today
that LibertyHealth in Hudson County, New Jersey has selected Emageon
to provide its enterprise-class software technology solution to
manage the acquisition, archiving, distribution and viewing of digital
images across its Integrated Delivery Network (IDN). The five-year
agreement precedes the opening of a new state-of-the-art campus
that will replace LibertyHealth’s teaching hospital, Jersey
City Medical Center, and will include Greenville Hospital, also
in Jersey City, and Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus. The new hospital
will serve as a regional educational center and showcase for demonstrating
the technology to other hospitals in the region.
LibertyHealth joins the ranks of the largest IDNs in the U.S. in
selecting Emageon. IDNs such as Kaiser Permanente, Sisters of Mercy,
Sutter Health and Allina Hospitals and Clinics – as well as
numerous other hospitals, including Hackensack University Medical
Center in New Jersey – utilize Emageon’s technology
for their enterprise image archiving and distribution management.
Under the terms of the agreement, Emageon will begin working with
LibertyHealth immediately to begin preparations for infrastructure
development and workflow re-engineering efforts to prepare physicians
and staff for a more automated means of care delivery.
"Digital imaging does away with the familiar X-ray film and
paper as we know it today," said Stephen Kirby, LibertyHealth’s
COO/CFO. "In working with Emageon over the past year, we have
come to understand the inefficiencies that a film and paper-based
imaging service has on patients, medical staff and personnel. With
regard to the new hospital, we will have effectively eliminated
a major expense associated with a traditional film storage library
and the resource infrastructure to support such a department. We
knew we wanted the technology, but realized our partner must play
an active role in helping us realize the benefits. We are convinced
Emageon is the right partner."
"Emageon is bringing far more to LibertyHealth than just a
technology to archive and distribute digital images," said
Richard Bonforte, M.D., LibertyHealth’s Senior Vice President,
Medical Affairs. "The solution will help create greater value
– better service to our patients, better service to our referring
physicians and more efficient work flow across the entire enterprise
– while keeping us more competitive in today's demanding market.
Physicians will now have immediate access to a patient’s clinical
images and reports anywhere within the care continuum with tools
and capabilities that are state-of-the-art."
Emageon is very pleased to have earned LibertyHealth’s business,"
said Chuck Jett, Emageon’s CEO. "It was looking for a
partner who could deliver the technology and financial results.
We have a track record of delivering predictable clinical, operational
and financial results and LibertyHealth will be no exception. The
ROI associated with digital imaging is no longer guesswork. As a
strategic business partner of the New Jersey Hospital Association
(NJHA), Emageon will conduct a number of annual educational seminars
at the new facility to demonstrate the benefits of its solution
to the NJHA membership.
About Liberty Health
Established in 1991, LibertyHealth is one of New Jersey's leading
integrated health care organizations, offering area residents a
full spectrum of quality, affordable services and the latest treatments
and technologies. Jersey City Medical Center, Meadowlands Hospital
and Greenville Hospital are the acute care facilities that comprise
LibertyHealth. Its services are offered in a variety of convenient
locations, from private physician office to member hospitals and
community health centers, in wellness and health promotion programs
and in the comfort of patients' homes. Jersey City Medical Center
is a core teaching affiliate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The new Jersey City Medical Center Campus will be a seven-story,
349,000 square-foot, 362-bed, acute care hospital with the following
configuration:
• 17,760 square- foot. Trauma Center and Emergency Room.
• 10,560 square-foot Imaging Center to include Radiology,
CAT and MRI.
• 8-room Operating Room Suite to include 2 dedicated rooms
for open heart surgery and trauma.
• 12,800 sq ft Heart Center to include 3 cardiac catheterization
labs, cardiac rehab center, examination and testing area.
• 7,500 square-foot conference and education center.
• EMS Communications Center (HUDCEN) including backup 911
dispatch center.
The new construction will also include a three-story, 41,000 square
foot ambulatory care facility with physician and administrative
offices and a physician’s office building all located on nearly
14 acres overlooking the New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and
Liberty State Park. For more information on LibertyHealth, visit
www.libertyhealth.org.
About Emageon
Emageon enables IDNs (integrated delivery networks), hospitals,
healthcare systems and imaging facilities to have an enterprise-wide,
fully-open, multi-"ology," multi-modality, digital imaging
environment – featuring immediate cost savings, extreme scalability
and performance, no risk of obsolescence and minimal capital outlay.
With essentially limitless scalability, our solution can manage
any size facility or complexity – even extremely large, multi-site,
multi-specialty medical image repositories – which may be
centralized or distributed. Emageon’s high-performance software
and vendor-neutral, open-systems approach lowers total cost of ownership
and eliminates technical obstacles that prevent a healthcare enterprise
from converting to a fully digital environment.
Emageon’s cost-effective, managed-use business model also
eliminates financial obstacles to digital transformation and has
two solution configurations. The first includes our enterprise medical
image storage and distribution management software bundled with
storage management hardware. The second adds our enterprise storage
infrastructure’s seamless integration of all necessary open-systems
display and workflow software and hardware, and all necessary services
for rapid implementation, process optimization and adoption success
management. This total solution enhances diagnostic capability,
patient care delivery and workflow efficiency of all specialty physicians
and supporting professional staff as well as improved financial
performance for the healthcare enterprise. For additional information
on Emageon, visit www.emageon.com.
Contact:
Noel Gartman
Emageon
205-980-7602
ngartman@emageon.com
David Latham
Delta Capital Management LLC
901-755-0949
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