Carestream PACS Version 11 at CPN Health Services

As part of an integrated PACS and DRX Evolution system installation, InTelemed installed the latest version of Carestream PACS, V11, at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Care Service clinic in Shawnee, Oklahoma.  The installation went very smoothly and was completed in three days.  Training followed the next week and the system went fully operational the last week of January 2010.
Being an IHS affiliated organization, CPN uses RPMS for their RIS and patient information system.  The Carestream PACS system is fully integrated with RPMS to allow two way transmission of patient demographics and completed reports between PACS and RPMS. For disaster recovery, CPN utilizes Carestream Hosted Archive service.  All patient images are sent nightly to Carestream off-site archive in New York, ensuring patient images are fully protected with limited intervention from the clinic IT staff.
The Caresteam web-enabled PACS server is available to physicians via any workstation in the clinic, and over the public Internet via the CPN web site. Images are transmitted off-site for diagnostic reading.