Clarian Health Partners
1633 North Capitol Avenue
www.rileyhospital.org/document.jsp?locid=2404

Richard Helsper
Greg Beck, MHA
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Ph: 317-962-2188
Fax: 317-962-6297
E-mail: gbeck@clarian.org

Network Partners: Bedford Regional Hospital, Bedford, IN; Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, IN Union Hospital & Health System, Terre Haute, IN; Memorial Hospital, South Bend, IN; Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, IN.

Project Purpose: Enable and enhance the provision of specialty healthcare to children throughout Indiana. Provide an infrastructure to promote continuing medical education among providers across Indiana. Maximize outreach providers’ clinical time and reduce patient wait times for specialty services. Support the advancement of telemedicine policy and reimbursement in Indiana.

Outcomes Expected: Reduce the wait time for Indiana children to see a specialist. Decrease travel expenses for families and providers and Indiana Medicaid.

Service Area: Spoke telemedicine clinics are located in the following counties: Lawrence County, IN; Vanderburgh County, IN; Vigo County, IN; St. Joseph County, IN; Allen County, IN. We have provided services to patients from 15 additional counties across Indiana.

Services Provided: Riley Connections has operated since September 2003. Consultations are provided in adolescent psychiatry, pediatric urology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric dermatology, oncology, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, and diabetes disease management. File transfer services are performed for pediatric EEGs and pulmonary sleep studies. 9 Continuing Medical Education events are broadcast
weekly.

Equipment: 5 Tandberg 2500 video codec conferencing carts, 4 Tandberg 550 video conferencing carts, 4 digital stethoscopes (AMD 3550), 3 general exam cameras (AMD 2550), 4 Compaq notebook computers, 2 Fuji FinePix E550 Digital Cameras.

Transmission: Dedicated T-1 Lines between Clarian Health Partners and Deaconess Hospital, Bedford Regional Hospital, and Union Hospital. Internet IP video to Memorial Hospital and Lutheran Hospital.

Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County Thomas Kuster, CNMT
Grants Department
3838 N. Rural St.
Indianapolis, IN 46205

Catherine Parker, RD, MPA Ph: 317-221-2468
Fax: 317-221-2020
E-mail: cparker@hhcorp.org

Network Partners: N/A.

Project Purpose: To enhance Wishard Health Services (WHS) physician, staff and patient access to and satisfaction with radiology images and reports through the use of the Picture Archive Communications System (PACS). This project is an upgrade to an existing system in effort to become a “filmless” radiology department.

Outcomes Expected: Increased physician usage and satisfaction of/with PACS. Increased staff satisfaction with PACS. Have one year’s worth of images stored in cache (immediate retrieval). This will be monitored via
system user surveys.

Service Area: Marion County (Indianapolis), Indiana. Approximately twelve HPSAs served by grant project. Services Provided: The WHC PACS system has been in place since 1998 and supports all modalities of Radiology including Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine,Ultrasound and Diagnostic X-ray.

Equipment: 1 Oracle server; 2 network gateways; 2 tape archives; 2 archive servers; 1 Web server; 25 radiology review stations; administrative workstation.

Transmission: Broadband LAN throughout hospital with Internet access for radiologists and referring physicians outside of hospital.