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At the May 4 General Meeting, Ed Heere a DACS veteran and past board member, will talk about the services that his company CoActiv Medical Business Solutions offers to the medical world. The company was formed in 2003 to “develop, market, install and service digital radiography software, systems and services aimed at both independent imaging centers as well as hospital imaging departments.” Ed and his staff realized that while servicing and supporting the IT departments of several large, multi-site radiology practices, that there existed a need in the industry for a whole new method of getting radiology images, reports and other data to referring physicians. The company works with several large, and small, practices in the Connecticut and New York area to understand their specific requirements and to develop a design specification for a product to fill this need. According to Ed, “a surgeon or other specialist is often waiting for critical clinical information in order to make potentially life saving decisions regarding a patient’s immediate medical care. Often this information is requested to be sent “stat”—the term defines the information as being required immediately to make medical treatment decisions.” CoActiv fulfills this need. In addition, Ed points out that “in the case of radiological images, the size of the data files are often huge and can take significant lengths of time to transmit to the treating physician’s location. Also HIPAA regulations, as well as proper professional practice, demands that this information be transmitted in a manner that maintains patient privacy and in a manner that assures that the data is securely and reliably transmitted - all without compromising the need to transmit the data in a “stat” manner.” At the DACS General Meeting, Ed Heere will elaborate on how the information is being transmitted and used. The May 4th meeting will take place at Danbury Hospital Auditorium. Activities commence at 7 p.m. with a computer related question and answer session, followed by brief club announcements. The presentation by Ed will start at 8 p.m. All General Meetings are free and open to the public. For directions to the Auditorium and additional information on the meeting, check Dacs web site: www.dacs.org. |
| Marlène Gaberel is a DACS board member and Public Relations Manager. You can e-mail her at: marlene_gaberel@yahoo.com. |
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