Overview
Grants Overview
NEVADA, Washoe County
Digital Imaging System for Rural Nevada (DISRN)
Nevada Rural Hospital Partners Foundation
CMP FY 04
Nevada Rural Hospital Partners Foundation
4600 Kietzke Lane, Suite I-209
Reno, NV 89502
http://www.nrhp.org
Robin Keith RN, BSN
Ph: 775-827-4770
Fax: 775-827-0939
Email: robin@nrhp.org
Network Partners:
Humboldt General Hospital, Banner Churchill Community Hospital, Carson Valley Medical Center, Nye Regional Medical Center, South Lyon Medical Center, Boulder City Hospital. Patients served = N/A. Patient encounters = N/A. WAN used for transmission of images formed in 2001-2002. Development of PACS capability and centralized archive occurred in the grant period-August.
Project Purpose:
The program enhances access by rural physicians to distant diagnostic support and is a dynamic example of how small, autonomous hospitals can share technology. The program enables rural hospitals to capture digital images, implement Picture Archive Computer Systems, integrate patient information with those images, and transmit them over an existing wide area network to a new shared, centralized image archive.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
The program originally included PACS in four hospitals. Due to increased participation and funding from network participants, six hospitals now have PACS capability. Key outcomes: 1) Reduction of cost of x-ray film by 30 percent; 2) film scan time reduced by 60 percent; 3) Images successfully transferred 99.75 percent of the time; 4) Reduction in network down time by 33 percent; and 5) Staff time spent retrieving films reduced by 30 percent.
Service Area:
Sites include Humboldt General Hospital, Banner Churchill Community Hospital, Carson Valley Medical Center, Nye Regional Medical Center, South Lyon Medical Center, Boulder City Hospital. Counties affected by PACS and/or access to archive: Clark, White Pine, Lander, Humboldt, Pershing, Douglas, Nye, Mineral, Churchill, Lincoln, Lyon.
Services Provided:
Services include digital image capture, transmission, archiving and retrieval of diagnostic images across a wide area network to a centralized, shared data archive.
Equipment:
Konica CR Digital x-ray, Compressus PACS hardware, Equallogic SAN 1, 2, 3, and 4 Dell SAN server, GE CR Digital x-ray, PACS archive server.
Transmission:
Multi-application full T1 transmission.
NEVADA, Washoe County
Biomedical Imaging Laboratory
University of Nevada, Reno
CMP FY 05
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Office of Medical Research/338
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89557-0161
http://www.unr.edu/med/
David M. Lupan, PhD
Senior Associate Dean
Ph: 775-784-4908
Fax: 775-327-2008
Email: dmlupan@med.unr.edu
Network Partners:
Not Applicable.
Project Purpose:
To develop of a premier Center for Biomedical Imaging on the School of Medicine campus at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) that will support biomedical research within the School and the community of scientists at the University who have a need for high-end confocal microscopy.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
New multi-photon confocal microscopy instrumentation in a Center for Biomedical Imaging will directly benefit School scientists by providing access to technology that does not presently exist in the region. The Center will facilitate the development of collegiality and interdisciplinary interaction of scientists. A secondary benefit will be the nurturing of excitement for scientific exploration in the next generation of undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows who come to School of Medicine scientists for mentoring.
Service Area:
The service area will be the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno that is located in Washoe County of northern Nevada. This is the area of focused services. Extension of services beyond the UNR boundary will be promoted, but is predicted to be infrequent.
Services Provided:
The goal of this award is to improve access to the latest technology for biomedical imaging, i.e., visualization and recording of the dynamic interactions among and/or within cells, including molecular-cellular interactions. This technology does not exist at our institution.
Equipment:
Three Scanning Confocal Microscopes including: two-Olympus FV-300 and one Olympus FV-1000 microscopes. One Spectra-Physics sapphire: titanium laser.
Transmission:
Not Applicable.
