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Intelerad Medical Systems, a medical imaging picture archiving and communication system (PACS), radiology information system (RIS) and workflow solutions company, announced that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected IntelePACS as the PACS for their National Teleradiology Program (NTP).
November 18, 2013 
A rural community hospital located in northeast Oregon, Good Shepherd Medical Center is a busy 49-bed facility that serves the town of Hermiston and its surrounding communities.
Given their rural location, Good Shepherd is a heavy transfer facility located near the junction of two state highways and often the first stop for trauma patients from traffic accidents in the area. These patients, along with those who require specialized treatment or care for extended periods, are often transferred to larger facilities in Washington or Portland. For this reason, Good Shepherd required a solution that easily transferred images across multiple locations. With its Web-based, distributed architecture, Intelerad was able to meet the needs of the hospital, deploying its IntelePACS and InteleViewer solutions back in 2002.
With only one radiologist on staff at a time, diagnostic imaging staff must work as efficiently as possible to ensure patients receive the highest levels of care. To enhance productivity, Good Shepherd integrated IntelePACS with PowerScribe 360, Nuance’s dynamic radiology reporting and communication platform.
“The integration has dramatically cut down our turnaround time,” said Ann Richards, Good Shepherd’s HIS analyst and PACS administrator. “Whereas it formerly took anywhere between 12 to 24 hours to deliver a report, radiologists’ average turnaround time over the course of a week has been five and a half minutes. It’s been a dramatic reduction.”
November 15, 2013 
Intelerad Medical Systems announced the launch of InteleConnect Patterns, an optional service built into the InteleConnect Referring Physician Portal that provides radiology groups with key analytics regarding their base of referring physicians.
November 12, 2013 
Intelerad Medical Systems, a developer in medical imaging picturing archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS) and workflow solutions, announced the launch of InteleRIS 8.224, the latest version of their RIS.
November 08, 2013 
Through their network of hospitals, clinics, centers, health units, and residential facilities, the Island Health (Vancouver Island Health Authority) provides healthcare to more than 765,000 people located in a geographic area of approximately 34,800 square miles.
Spanning across nineteen medical imaging sites on Vancouver Island, Island Health boasts a highly skilled team of professionals who work together to provide diagnostics and treatment procedures.
An Intelerad partner for over 15 years, Island Health uses IntelePACS and InteleViewer to read over 800,000 studies per year across Island health’s network of hospitals. “By leveraging Intelerad solutions, we have been able to greatly improve our medical imaging department’s efficiency,” said Ken Situ, a technical analyst with Island Health. “In particular, it has greatly reduced turnaround time, which allows us to provide reports to referring physicians quickly.”
October 16, 2013 
The largest and busiest children's Primary Care Center between New York and Boston, Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) has a medical staff of nearly 1,100 across two hospitals, five specialty care centers and 10 practices.
The center's radiology services are provided by Jefferson Radiology, the largest radiology private practice group in Connecticut. With the use of a unified diagnostic platform radiologists benefit from instant sub-specialty consultation, seamless access to priors and improved collaboration.
High value is being delivered to all the stakeholders in a patient's care. "The value is in better and more accurate interpretations, the value is in more satisfied referring clinicians, the value is in being able to optimize a schedule that is more convenient and productive for the radiologists," said Stephen Poole, M.D., head of pediatric imaging at CCMC.
October 04, 2013 
For over 70 years, Insight Medical Imaging has provided state-of-the-art medical imaging services to the city of Edmonton and its surrounding areas. Having started out as a smaller, hospital-based imaging organization, Insight has grown significantly over the past 10 years, following their move from film to IntelePACS.
By leveraging Intelerad’s award-winning solution, the imaging group has been able to implement a more effective workflow, with radiologists able to greatly increase productivity and reduce turnaround times on reports. Part of these efficiency gains came from IntelePACS’ ability to transfer images across locations, which allows Insight to balance workloads across the organization, leading to greater operational efficiency.
“IntelePACS has had a positive impact by putting the information that radiologists need at their fingertips so they can serve patients as quickly as possible,” said Andrew Batiuk, Insight’s IT manager. “The solution has also enabled us to be more productive without increasing staff, so we can serve a greater number of patients while increasing our productivity.”
Deploying IntelePACS has also helped Insight expand their reach to rural areas. An example of this would be the complete diagnostic imaging center they opened in Fort McMurray, located 280 miles north of Edmonton. The studies are remotely read by Insight’s Edmonton based team and the images and report results are promptly available to the referring physician.
September 05, 2013 Today’s remote viewing systems will stimulate changes and challenges in healthcare in a manner similar to what online banking has done for the financial industry. The areas of improvement include safe, secure, remote access from any browser, or ultimately any mobile device. This is the reality of today, and it comes without the need for special applications or image and associated data downloads from virtually any source.
August 28, 2013 Intelerad Medical Systems announced three new offerings as part of their Nuage suite of cloud-based solutions. Amongst the new solutions is CloudComplete — a fully-featured, cloud-based version of their award-winning IntelePACS solution. Other solutions added to the suite include CloudStore, which enables imaging departments to move all long-term storage to the cloud; and CloudMirror, which offers the flexibility of an off-site hosted data replication service.
June 12, 2013 Introducing the Nuage suite of Cloud PACS solutions. With resilient data protection, replication and dynamic storage that allows firms to pay as they grow, Nuage facilitates secure, stable and scalable growth, managed by imaging workflow experts.
June 11, 2013 