Medicalis recently announced that Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy has completed its enterprise-wide deployment of its Medicalis Workflow Solution.

Mercy—the fifth largest Catholic health system in the nation with 50 imaging facilities in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma—now has a centralized image management system to connect physicians and administrators.

"The Medicalis team was lockstep with our staff and vendors for a smooth and efficient implementation," said Gil Hoffman, CIO, Mercy Technology Services, in a statement. "Now, Mercy's radiologists are connected and can work more collaboratively thanks to a single enterprise system. It bridges imaging across Mercy so we can provide better care for patients."

This implementation was part of a comprehensive PACS initiative to move Mercy to an integrated, centralized enterprise solution. Per the release, some important factors of the Medicalis Workflow Solution are:

• Medicalis Workflow Solution is integrated with Mercy's existing enterprise imaging platforms, electronic medical record (EMR) system and vendor neutral archives (VNA). 
   
• The flow of radiology studies from the disparate sites eliminates silos and automates radiologist reading across sites, practices and legacy platforms. 
   
• Mercy went from several different reading worklists to a single workflow orchestrator so Mercy can take advantage of economies of scale and skill. 
   
• Medicalis is integrated across multiple instances of Mercy's EMR, providing a single unified workflow layer for imaging.

"With Medicalis, Mercy now has an integrated, centralized Imaging Service Line that will deliver improved productivity, efficiency, and quality via sub-specialty reading by managing a collection of radiology departments as a single entity,” said Oran Muduroglu, president and CEO of Medicalis, in a statement.