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MRI Imaging Center Low Voltage, IT connectivity, IP addresses, send and receive of Imaging Scan Teleradiology Interpretations, and Archive of Patient Images. - Module #16

In your buildout or remodeling of the building you will be using for your MRI Imaging Center, we can assist you in developing a clear preplanning of where your IT and telephone drops will need to be located and why that is important. As alluded to previously, it will be important to have a separate dedicated phone line and separate phone number for the remote emergency monitoring of your MRI unit 24/7 by your MRI equipment manufacturer. We can provide assistance in planning for your IT drops for the front office, MRI control room, MRI Equipment room, MRI server areas, Front desk, VOIP desk tops, business work stations and peripheral devices. We can assist you and your IT specialist in meeting with the builders from early planning stages to discuss your hard line phone needs, cable runs, VOIP options,  low voltage needs, and also a planned number of building Hot Spots where internet can be accessed by staff, vendors, patients, etc.

In addition, please be aware, often times this work will be performed by a Low Voltage/IT vendor that is not usually associated with the builder or remodeler, and as such, their invoice might be outside of the buildout expenses originally projected by the builder. In your buildout loan and for budgeting purposes, you will want to determine the expenses in advance for telephony, IT cable runs and IT drops as well as any possible network data/network storage, servers, switches and server racks that you might need to have on site.

In addition, the remote access teleradiology groups  that we work with, will have a great team of IT specialists that can help you get set up to send the large MRI files to their group for interpretation, and return of interpretation reports to you and your network. They will obtain the MRI Machine IP address from the final installation engineers from the company who has provided your MRI unit. Prior to final installation and “Go-Live” with your magnet, they will test the send and receive of your MRI files from your MRI Magnet to the teleradiology group. In this network communication with the teleradiology group, bandwidth and speed are extremely important.  MRI study files are very large and you do not want them to get hung up in a slow image send, and slow report receive, process.

In working with our teleradiology vendors, our goals are to have our client MRI Exam studies sent for interpretation by our teleradiologist group, with top quality interpreted report turnaround time to our client group, in one hour or less.

In working with a remote read teleradiology group for client patient interpretations,  in addition to negotiation of the most competitive read fees found anywhere, we can also negotiate on your behalf to Archive your MRI studies and identify/negotiate the per study price for annual storage of your files.

We provide highly effective consulting services on your behalf in the IT, IP, Telephony and Archive of Imaging files items noted in this section. We can alleviate your concerns and lack of familiarity, with any of these areas in the implementation of your MRI Imaging Center.

In this Consultation and Assistance Module we will address

*Ensuring in very early project start up that we plan for a high speed, large bandwidth Fiber Cabling to your MRI site, to ensure that MRI files do not get hung up in the teleradiology send and receive communication.

*Ensure your internet carrier can offer large bandwidth and high speed send of large data files, and at a reasonable price.

Don’t scrimp on this one, you don’t want slow send and receive internet.

*How to determine your IT and Telephony Drops, which should happen during Architectural early planning as you may have some significant  cable runs and a number of drops to consider and plan for, and we advise on cable type as well.

*Planning for hard line dedicated analog phone circuits for elevator and MRI Magnet remote monitoring, what to know and why.

*Planning for and building IT hot spots.

*Consider USB ports along with standard electrical outlets in several MRI Imaging Center patient waiting areas.

*Setting up MRI machine IP addresses with the MRI field Engineers well before your “GO LIVE” date,

Coordination and testing with your Teleradiology Group IT team at the other end.

*Planning with IT and the MRI Technologist and Owners on MRI File Archive Agreement

*Consider additional redundancy, and additional file back up and servers.