Montefiore Medical Center, a full-service, integrated delivery system caring for patients in the greater New York metropolitan region, has collaborated with Mach 7 Technologies (M7T), a global provider of PACS vendor neutral medical image management solutions, to deploy Keystone Engine enabling to improve the mammo reading workflow.
“Montefiore remains an excellent collaboration partner,” said Tom Riesenberg, COO & VP Americas for Mach 7. “With Montefiore’s assistance, Keystone Suite continues to strengthen its capabilities, furthering its position as a world class Enterprise Imaging Platform that improves customer imaging workflow.”
Montefiore reads mammography studies using specialty workstations that are loosely coupled to the core radiology PACS. Seeking a solution that would improve the mammo reading workflow, Montefiore collaborated with M7T.
M7T’s Keystone Suite consists of four scalable components - Keystone Management Console, Keystone Archive, Keystone Engine, and Keystone Clinical Viewer, along with a set of DICOM Utility Applications. This robust product suite delivers PACS-Neutral Archiving, intelligent image movement and normalization, image enablement, advanced control, monitoring, and auditing of Keystone Suite processing.
Keystone Engine enables interoperability across disparate PACS systems and is configured to perform DICOM Modality Work List queries to the RIS every five minutes requesting “in progress” studies. Each MWL query returns a candidates list. Based on customer-defined prefetch rules, relevant prior studies are selected and CMOVE commands are issued to the PACS. Keystone Engine, using rules defined by the customer, ensures that the studies are routed to the correct location and exam workstation based on embedded DICOM metadata.
Keystone Engine’s enhanced workflow ensures that each mammo workstation receives only those relevant priors for exams to be read at that workstation. The results? The elimination of mammo workstation storage congestion problems, as well as increased radiologist satisfaction and productivity.
“Merging the latest technology with clinical excellence is a part of Montefiore’s culture,” said Mony Weschler, Director Ancillary Informatics Montefiore IT and Emerging Health IT, “so it is obvious why Montefiore was an early adopter of M7T and a partner in developing the enhanced Mammography functionality.”
M7T has also collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to implement Keystone Engine to improve a highly specialized radiology department workflow scenario.