Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital

Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation hospital and outpatient clinics network dedicated to helping maximize functionality, mobility and independence after and illness or injury. When an individual is ready to leave the hospital, but not yet ready for home, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital provides the care needed to help get back to living life. Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital works with each individual to customize a treatment plan to improve quality of life. Its inpatient and outpatient services, along with its expert medical staff, provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive approach to rehabilitation dedicated to achieving a patient’s personal goals. With more than thirty years of service, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital has helped thousands of people to get back to doing the things they enjoy.

Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital makes high quality patient care the utmost priority. That integrity fueled the Radiology Department’s February 2007 transition from a manual, costly method for getting studies to specialists for interpretation, to transmitting diagnostic images via AG Mednet, the world’s largest diagnostic imaging exchange network. After just five months of using the AG Mednet network, the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital Radiology Department significantly increased efficiency and interpretation turnaround time, which has resulted in tangible service improvement and patient care benefits.

Previously, the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital Radiology Department would send scans to be read elsewhere. It would take almost one week to have a scan interpreted and signed, which was unacceptable to a facility that makes fast and accurate diagnoses a priority. The Hospital determined this methodology was not adequately meeting the needs of patients and staff and sought a progressive solution.

“Each year, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital’s Radiology Department gathers, interprets and disseminates more than six thousand exams and AG Mednet enables us to improve efficiency every step of the way,” explained Jim Mulcahy, director of radiology for Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. “Through AG Mednet, we’ve partnered with Quincy Medical Center and our scans are now quickly read and signed. The AG Mednet Portal allows the Radiology Techs and the Hospital’s medical staff easy access to all reports.”

Dr. Jose Varghese at Quincy Medical Center fostered the introduction to AG Mednet. Corporate and IT executives from Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital met with AG Mednet and shortly afterward, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital joined AG Mednet’s diagnostic imaging exchange network. The facility immediately began leveraging Quincy Medical Center for radiology reads.

“Implementation was simple, had no infrastructure impact and easily linked to our existing reporting system,” added Mr. Mulcahy. “Since Quincy Medical Center was already on AG Mednet’s network, we were able to get started faster than expected.” Today, six Radiology Technologists at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital use AG Mednet and reports are available throughout our facility to all pertinent staff. No additional training was required; money was saved by doing away with transcription services and staff morale improved because manual processes, such as faxing and image transporting, were eliminated.

“AG Mednet’s customer service team is very responsive and the network is fast: once a scan order is placed, it’s up within a minute for viewing, sending and general use,” continued Mr. Mulcahy. “To improve our staff’s ability to serve patients, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital is making the transition to more effective electronic processes. Thanks to AG Mednet, the radiology department is a good example of how change can be for the better.”

“The partnership between Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital and Quincy Medical Center is a testament to their commitment of providing a high standard of patient eecare,” said Abraham Gutman, founder and CEO for AG Mednet. “AG Mednet is the catalyst for connecting smaller, and specialized, health centers with metropolitan facilities and highly qualified radiologists, which further demonstrates how a broad based radiology telecommunications infrastructure can improve healthcare.”

About AG Mednet

AG Mednet is the world’s largest diagnostic imaging exchange network. With AG Mednet, hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers provide the highest standard of scan interpretation to referring physicians, improving patient care and service. Radiologists who want to expand their business benefit from anytime/anywhere access to flawless images. Pharmaceutical, bio-tech, device and clinical research organizations that utilize imaging technology now have an automated way to recruit imaging sites and exchange secure images, reducing time and costs