OVERVIEW
Group Type
Multi-facility, inpatient and outpatient, high-volume breast care program.
Group Profile
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is a
511-bed, not-for-profit, acute care hospital
located in Newport Beach, California.
Hoag's state-of-the-art breast care center
provides the latest in direct-to-digital
mammography, dedicated breast MRI,
breast ultrasound and minimally invasive
breast biopsy. Hoag was honored with
HealthGrades' 2007 Distinguished Hospital
Award for Clinical Excellence, making it
one of the top 5% of hospitals in the
country.
Facilities
Hoag Breast Care Center
Hoag Health Center Aliso Viejo
Hoag Health Center Costa Mesa
Hoag Health Center Huntington Beach
Hoag Health Center Irvine
Goals
As a part of a comprehensive systems
review, Hoag was looking for a
Mammography Information System that
could deliver the following:
- Structured reporting for all procedures
- Patient tracking to match their workflow
- Integrated QA reporting for all facilities
- Support for five facilities with 50+ users
- Interface with hospital HIS, RIS,
digital dictation, and patient check-in
system
- Implement a specialized risk
assessment program
"We use MagView for structured
reporting, ensuring the
completeness and uniformity of
our reports. MagView's patient
tracking, QA analysis, outcomes
monitoring, and productivity
analysis is the backbone of our
sophisticated operation"
–Gary Levine, MD
Medical Director
Hoag Breast Care Center
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MagView delivers a highly customized mammography
information management solution with structured reporting for
all breast procedures.
Hoag Hospital prides itself in being a cutting-edge leader in both technology and
patient care. When Hoag decided to adopt a mammography information
management solution, it required a vendor that could deliver the flexibility needed
to interface with a complex array of hospital systems, transition the group to a
paperless workflow, and support the high volume, high efficiency operation that
Hoag envisioned. After a comprehensive review of all options, Hoag selected
MagView.
During implementation, MagView was interfaced with Hoag's Quadramed Affinity
HIS, Siemens Novius RIS, PowerScribe dictation system, and Galvanon CVM
patient tablet check-in system. The integrated system allows staff to order, begin
and end all breast exams directly in MagView without switching to another system,
and has proven very reliable, with 100% uptime in the two years since it was
implemented.
MagView's automatic tracking and outcome monitoring has helped Hoag track
patients throughout its several facilities. What used to require gathering and
comparing logs from all five facilities, is now accomplished automatically with the
click of a button. Observes Cyndi Damo, Hoag Outpatient Manager, "It is extremely
beneficial to have complete management and statistical reports available at any
time, with up-to-date information."
MagView has also helped Hoag implement an improved patient tracking workflow.
"Thanks to MagView, we are much more proactive in scheduling patients for
additional views and biopsies, as well as retrieving prior films. Every morning I print
a report and immediately see all callback and biopsy requests from the day before,"
states lead technologist, Sandra Hooks Reynaga, CRT(M) ARRT(M). "MagView
provides a safety net to ensure all patients are followed-up."
The radiologists at Hoag required a system that would allow them to create
structured reports for all breast exams, including MR, breast biopsies, cyst
aspirations, and needle localizations. Procedures that used to take several minutes
to dictate now take Hoag radiologist's less than a minute to complete with
MagView's structured reporting features. Since the implementation of MagView,
Hoag's 12 radiologists have used structured reporting for more than 95% of all
breast procedures performed. Dr. Gary Levine, Medical Director, notes, "MagView's
structured reporting sounds like me when I dictate. It doesn't sound like a computer.
Plus, it's quicker than dictating. That's a big reason why MagView has become so
valuable to our group."
Click here to visit the Hoag Breast Care Center web site.
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