Case Study
How One Academic Medical Center Eliminated CDs
CASE STUDY UC Health is committed to advancing medical knowledge through clinical research. University of Cincinnati investigators have broad clinical research expertise and conduct NIH funded studies, industry sponsored studies, and phase I-IV clinical trials in nearly all therapeutic areas. The university also has an environment that is conducive for numerous investigator-initiated studies that can be retrospective or prospective in nature. Medical imaging is a key part of a patient’s health record and clinical trial workflows. These workflows are complex; they often involve hunting down imaging off a clinical PACS onsite, requesting imaging be sent from an outside facility, or, worse yet, waiting for imaging data disc to arrive by mail. This process can take anywhere from a fe