Time goes quickly when you are busy deploying a PACS and building a RIS! Much has been achieved, and much more is still in progress.

Intelerad had two people onsite for our first rollout, this one at our main clinic. The PACS side of things went pretty smoothly. Our only real issue was an incompatibility between IntelePACS and GE Xeleris nuc med. All of our other headaches and challenges were RIS related (as expected). But all in all, our staff thought the transition to the “future” was very well done, and they are happily enjoying the benefits of a faster, less paper filled, workflow.

Building our own RIS, while a huge hurdle and project, has been a blessing in some ways. Tailoring workflow to best optimize various aspects as related to our practice has been super. I do not think a RIS vendor would have come close to the efficiency gains we are experiencing. As we have learned with PACS, once you are up and running, and they have your money, they are not as interested in your “feature requests” as you are. To be fair, Intelerad has done a reasonable job with us. And they certainly bend over backwards in issues related to support. It is just those pesky “feature requests” that are an issue.

I will endevour to update this on a weekly basis, to cover some of the issues and lessons learned from the past couple of months, as well as those we foresee in the future.

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