Case Study: Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System, based in Forth Worth, TX, is one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. This 285-bed facility records more than one million patient encounters each year and has ranked in America's Best Children's Hospitals 2008 by U.S. News & World Reports, Leapfrog Top Hospitals 2007, and named one of the Best Children's Hospitals 2007 in Child's Magazine.

Replace an existing radiology speech recognition reporting application that failed to satisfy the growing demands of the department. Improve upon workflow integration challenges experienced between legacy reporting application and PACS in addition to resolving productivity hurdles. Drive further cost savings, productivity gains and departmental efficiencies.

Build upon the "lessons learned" and experience using speech recognition and choose a technology platform that fulfills more than just basic reporting requirements like peer review, integrated clinical content, integrated critical communication and back-end business intelligence.