Princeton Community Hospital Chooses Data General PACS Solution.

WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1998--

Data General Picture Archiving Communications System (PACS) Filmless X-ray Technology Increases Hospital's Productivity

Princeton Community Hospital, one of the most technologically advanced medical-care facilities in West Virginia, has chosen a Data General healthcare solution that will enable its physicians to distribute and view digitized X-rays and other medical images across a wide range of locations within the hospital and around the world. Princeton Community recently signed an agreement to install a Data General Picture Archiving Communications System (PACS) solution, which includes IntraScan II imaging software developed by MarkCare Medical Systems, based in Bloomfield, N.J., a subsidiary of MarkCare Solutions, Inc.

Data General PACS solutions, which are based on the latest technology for digitizing X-rays and other medical images as well as patient data, is a filmless imaging system that processes, reports, reads, archives and stores medical images. Princeton Community is one of a select group of U.S. hospitals to install such an advanced healthcare technology solution.

"Replacing X-ray film output with digital images will make us far more efficient in providing quality healthcare," said Dr. Afzal Ahmed, chairman of medical imaging, Princeton Community Hospital. "With a Data General PACS solution, we will be able to distribute electronic images simultaneously from multiple locations, transmit images between departments and remote or satellite facilities with a single keystroke, and control our storage space requirements. Swapping X-rays for images will dramatically reduce the chances of losing or misplacing X-ray images due to human error."

"Data General is not only providing an advanced technology PACS solution for Princeton Community Hospital, but is also providing the integration services and extensive support and training for the medical staff," said Rick Cumberland, vice president of clinical computing for Data General's Worldwide Healthcare Division.

PACS Solution Scenario

Typically, technologists take X-ray views of a patient's injury, wait for the film to develop, review the film for accuracy and deliver it to the radiologist for diagnosis. If the film is not satisfactory, the technologist must re-take the X-rays, develop and review the new film and if sate images have been deemed satisfactory, the digitized X-ray images are made immediately available to both the radiologist and the admitting floor clinician for diagnosisons. The initial installation will enable 55 users to simultaneously view images from anywhere within the hosceton until the Data General designing, planning, and implementation phase of the PACS solution is completed and the medical staff has been fully trained. Following this, Data General will continue to offer full seven-by-24 support to Prir the enterprise and because of its strategic reng, clinical viewing, modality acquisition interfaces, image management, archive management, workflow management, and HIS/RIS integration capabilities.

Data Gener -- One DG/V PII 300 workstation also serving as a modality acquisition server

-- One AViiON AV 2150 rackmount configuration serving as the teleradiology server for remote access to information residing in the PACS solution

-- Four DG/V PII 300 diagnostic review stations for clinical diagnosis

-- Three DG/V PII 300 clinical review stations for clinical diagnosis

-- One AViiON AV 2150 server and a digital linear tape (DLT) juke box for archive storage

Data General's modality acquisition servers store X-rays and other medical images before they are forwarded to the image archive management system. The servers also compress the images prior to placing them on the nerofit acute care hospital based in southern West Virginia. PCH offers the region's only cancer program that ihat support patient care, PCH was the first in the state in adopting comprehensive computed radiography with ommunity Hospital and its services call 304/487products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end NT and UNIX AViiON servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1997 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com/healthcare.

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