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Iredell Memorial Hospital

October 28th, 2007

For Iredell Memorial Hospital, lost records meant enormous losses in revenues. But keeping critical information available to those professionals who need it is also a tremendous challenge at the facility, which delivers outstanding, cutting-edge care. With 135 physicians on staff, several specialized treatment centers and nearly 5000 emergency room visits per month, Iredell staff found their workflow and productivity hampered by their records system, which involved assembling, distributing, storing, and retrieving volumes of paper. Full story »

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When Minutes Mean Lives

March 24th, 2004

The patient had just suffered his second heart attack.

The first had been about a year earlier. Doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco saved him then, with cardiac catheterization and angiography: Carefully, they slid a thin, flexible tube, or catheter, through an incision in the patient’s thigh, up through the femoral artery toward the heart. With dye and X-rays, they located areas of fat and calcium that blocked off the heart’s blood supply. Then they sent small, tough, balloons through the same vascular tunnel, and, inflating them at just the right spots, relieved the obstructions.
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