University of Iowa Health Care Purchases Carestream’s Enterprise Viewer, Lesion Management and Mammography Modules

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 26 — University of Iowa Health Care (Iowa City, Iowa) purchased Carestream’s Vue Motion enterprise viewer, lesion management and mammography/tomography software to augment the capabilities of its existing CARESTREAM Clinical Collaboration Platform (video).

“We need a fully featured enterprise viewer that can support rapid, reliable image access by the thousands of physicians we serve. This new viewer will be integrated with our Epic EMR to deliver images to University of Iowa clinicians, referring physicians and other clinicians as well as patients,” said Maia Hightower, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer and Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Health Care.

Carestream’s Vue Archive module stores images from multiple applications and a backup Carestream data center manages images during system upgrades and provides redundancy to help ensure continuous uptime.

“Our organization is transferring additional data onto the Clinical Collaboration Platform’s Vue Archive module to deliver easy access to users and better leverage this investment. This allows us to reduce operating costs while ensuring responsive service to users,” Hightower adds.

The healthcare system also is implementing Carestream’s lesion management application to help enhance assessment of oncology patients with quantitative measurements, bookmarking and comparisons over time to aid oncologists’ diagnostic and treatment decision making.  

Adding Carestream’s mammography/tomography module will equip physicians to read these images on PACS workstations and eliminate use of standalone mammography workstations. 

The University of Iowa Health Care’s Vue Archive enterprise repository stores radiology images, cardiology catheterization images from a dedicated Cardio PACS and echo images from a separate PACS. It maintains both a production data center and a backup data center to supply redundancy and ensure access to patient data.

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University of Iowa Health Care (UI Health Care) represents the integrated health care enterprise of the University of Iowa, which includes: UI Hospitals and Clinics, UI Stead Family Children's Hospital, UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and UI Physicians. As one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers—and the only comprehensive academic medical center in Iowa—UI Health Care is committed to excellence in education, research and comprehensive multidisciplinary care. For more information visit www.uihealthcare.org.