Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
1701 Oak Park Blvd.
Lake Charles, LA 70601
www.lcmh.com/telemedicine/

Mary Morris, MA, Telemedicine Director
Ph: 337-494-2861
Fax: 337-494-6742
Email : mmorris@lcmh.com

Network Partners: Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, Lake Charles, LA (11 spoke sites) Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Lafayette, LA (5 spoke sites) Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA (2 spoke sites) Slidell Memorial Hospital, Slidell, LA (1 spoke site) North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, MS (3 spoke sites)

Project Purpose: Develop a telemedicine network to improve quality of and access to healthcare. Provide access to quality health information, and distance-learning opportunities to hub and spoke sites by the means of videoconferencing technology.

Outcomes Expected:

• Provide home health care, including wound care, with real time assessments and the use of store and forward technologies.
• Provide telemedicine clinics in the rural school setting and in the correctional setting.
• Various specialty telemedicine clinics (Cardiology, Psychiatry, Ocular Plastics, Family Practice).
• Distance learning opportunities will be provided to health care providers, lowering travel-associated costs.
• Provide community health information to the public. (CHTC Evaluation Forms for all data
  collection).

Service Area: 11 parishes in southern Louisiana, 20 HPSAs/MUAs. 4 Counties in northern Mississippi, 8 HPSAs/MUAs

Services Provided: Network initiated in 1999, with Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Telemedicine project started 1994), as the lead agency. Providing diabetes education and management, ophthalmology, psychiatry, ocular plastics, home health, family practice, continuing and community education.

Equipment: V-Tel TC2000 videoconferencing unit, Polycom and Tandberg set top units, Tandberg Interns, Tandberg Educators, Ezenia MCU, American TeleCare home health equipment, ophthalmoscopes, stethoscopes, ECG’s, general exam cameras, document cameras, ENT scopes.

Transmission: POTS, T1, ISDN, IP.

Woman’s Hospital
9050 Airline Highway
Baton Rouge, LA 70815
www.womans.org

Jamie L. Haeuser, MHA
Ph: 225-924-8101
Fax: 225-924-8777
Email : jamie.haeuser@womans.org

Network Partners: None

Project Purpose: The expansion of Woman’s Hospital’s Physician Internet Portal expands physician access to timecritical patient information from any Internet-connected computer, provides a secure physician-to-physician messaging environment, allows physicians to enter orders online, and allows physicians to view images from the hospital’s PACS systems. The expansion will particularly enhance patient care between OB/GYN physicians and specialties including maternal/fetal medicine and neonatology.

Outcomes Expected: The outcomes include expansion of the number of active users of the system; linking patient information to physician messaging, and increasing physician efficiency, measured by the number of physician users of the messaging system; reducing medical errors by providing for online physician order entry through single-system physician access, measured by the number of physician users; and enhancing physician information available for diagnosis through direct access to imaging studies, measured through the number of physicians accessing the AGFA PACs system.

Service Area: The hospital serves an eight-parish (county) area, including East Baton Rouge, Livingston and Ascension parishes (primary) and West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, East Feliciana and West Feliciana parishes (secondary). The hospital provides maternal/fetal medicine services in Monroe, Lake Charles and Hammond.

Services Provided: Specialty services for women and infants, including obstetrics, gynecology, general surgery, neonatology, oncology, outpatient diagnostic services, and home health.

Equipment: For this project, Woman’s Hospital uses Two Dell 2524 1-gigabyte dual-processor servers (one live and one as the test and backup server), with AGFA software residing on one Dell 2600 server and one Dell 2650 server.

Transmission: Two Internet gateways: one from Cox Communications, 10MB half-duplex, and the other from NTG Communications, a 100MB full-duplex link between Woman’s and NTG. Of that connection, Woman’s Hospital uses 10MB full-duplex burstable for Internet services.