title: Image is everything. New York Hospital's institution-wide digital imaging lowers costs and improves care.
abstract: The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan: a 1,242-licensed bed voluntary non-profit hospital.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Conventional imaging technology created expensive logistical problems between the radiology facility and the Greenberg Pavilion, a new 850,000 square foot, 11-floor inpatient tower, located two city blocks away.
  
  
  METHODS
  Use a picture archiving communications system (PACS) to transmit, store and archive digital images.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Increased staff efficiencies, improved patient care and reduced costs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  "Many years of planning and a full commitment from the staff."
authors.affiliation: New York and Presbyterian Hospitals Health Care System Inc., USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scalzi
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Sostman
mesh_terms: D003200:Computer User Training; D017046:Cost Savings; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary; D009519:New York City; D016249:Optical Storage Devices; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards