Cool Case Study: Local Radiologist Firm Realizes Major Success with FirstLight Fiber

Here's a quick snapshot of an awesome case study just released by FirstLight Fiber and its customer, Schenectady Radiologists, PC (SRPC Medical Imaging). SRPC is a quality medical imaging services provider, operating imaging centers in Niskayuna and Guilderland, New York, as well as local hospitals since the 1970s.

Known for caring for their patients like they care for their own families, the SRPC staff works hard to meet the varying needs of all patients. In an effort to stay true to the Company’s mission of providing the best imaging technology in a relaxed setting, SRPC required a more robust, private wide area network (WAN) architecture that could create a real-time, collaborative environment for its physicians that was secure, reliable and affordable so that the organization could process, review and store scans quickly and efficiently.

After a solid search exploring multiple options, FirstLight Fiber was the most perfect solution.

Thanks to FirstLight, the SRPC network is faster, more reliable, and operates without delay. The Company’s communications and the collaboration among its radiologists has vastly improved. With FirstLight, SRPC is better able to leverage connections between sites and instantaneously read medical images on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis. The network increases workplace productivity, collaboration and mobility. Radiologists are no longer required to be onsite to access images and can easily consult with other radiologists regarding opinions on complex medical cases.

In turn, the patient experience is enormously improved. There is quicker turnaround time for results, and patients no longer need to worry about carrying their images from doctor to doctor. Instead, all medical images are stored electronically in a centralized, password-protected PACS system, allowing physicians to easily access and transfer files at incredibly fast rates.

“With FirstLight’s Metro Ethernet service, provisioned over FirstLight’s own fiber optic network, SRPC is operating more efficiently. What used to take 15 minutes has now decreased to just two or three minutes,” lauded Mooney. “Our new, fiber-based network allows SRPC to do more readings, and the connectivity between our offices and external work stations is instantaneous – our doctors can be anywhere and easily access the images they need.”

Mooney also commented that with the new network, complaints among his physicians have completely gone away, clearly indicating that their new Ethernet network is running smoothly, enabling the physicians to work efficiently.

Download the full case study at http://www.firstlight.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/FirstLight-CaseStudy-SRPC-downloadable.pdf.