Chernihiv City Hospital No. 2 was put into operation in 1992 and offers a capacity of 535 beds. Around 17,000 patients are treated in the hospital’s 15 clinical departments every year and the outpatient department receives even around 1,000 visits a day. The hospital’s personnel is known for their expertise in treating the most difficult patient cases from Chernihiv and the region and around 7,500 surgical interventions are performed there per year. Last but not least, a total of 226 physicians including 2 radiologists provide their professional services at this medical facility.

Chernihiv City Hospital No. 3 was originally organized in 1983 as a medical and sanitary unit and has been operating under its current name since the mid-90s. It includes the only general rehabilitation department in the region and employs 540 people including 83 physicians.

A state-of-the-art PACS, please!

Both institutions have been working without modern methods for viewing and transmitting DICOM data for a long time. They decided to invest in a state-of-the-art PACS that would manage all their data properly and called for proposals in a public tender process. What had to be taken into consideration was that each hospital had remote branches with diagnostic equipment of their own. Thus, it was an essential requirement to be able to browse all patient studies received from all devices and remote facilities on a professional radiology workstation and have these studies stored centrally in a long-term archive. IMAGE’s local sales partner MEDSTAR presented the most convincing offer and won the tender in November 2019.

Why iQ-SYSTEM PACS?

In addition to being a solution coming from an experienced global supplier, the fair price and the ability to expand the system in the future were some of the decisive factors for the hospitals to opt for iQ-SYSTEM PACS. Further criteria that led to the purchase of the solution were the availability of both thin-client and thick-client diagnostic viewers for remote and onsite viewing as well as the possibility to easily share patient research data with colleagues for consultation and to integrate the system with the local HIS.   

MEDSTAR installed the eagerly awaited PACS solution in December 2019 and took all the necessary steps that the system could go live a month later. Initially, six AETs were connected to each PACS which still leaves some upgrade opportunities in the future without the need for purchasing a larger PACS edition. So far, the hospital’s radiologists have enjoyed working with the iQ-VIEW reading station onsite and iQ-4VIEW for remote viewing. By means of the new WADO interface, doctors can now directly access the patient studies from the hospitals’ HIS systems and conveniently review the findings for an efficient treatment process.  

Currently, negotiations are underway to expand the radiology service and add iQ-WEB UPLOADER to the PACS in order to offer the possibility to securely upload patient studies by means of an easy-to-use website.

Project configuration:

Chernihiv City Hospital No. 2

• iQ-WEBX 10 – PACS for 10 AE titles
• WADO interface of iQ-WEB – Image access from any information system
• iQ-4VIEW 20 – Diagnostic zero-footprint viewer for 20 concurrent users
• iQ-VIEW PRO – Diagnostic viewing station

Chernihiv City Hospital No. 3

• iQ-WEBX 10 – PACS for 10 AE titles
• WADO interface of iQ-WEB – Image access from any information system
• iQ-4VIEW 15 – Diagnostic zero-footprint viewer for 20 concurrent users
• iQ-VIEW PRO – Diagnostic viewing station