SALT LAKE CITY - Hands-on experience with PACS is hard to come by outside of the workplace. So for volunteer radiologic technologist Sara Robertson, working with the PACS network at the Olympic Polyclinic has been an outstanding opportunity.
"Our department is going digital about the middle of March this year. Working with this system (DirectView, Eastman Kodak Health Imaging, Rochester, NY) has been great training for the workflow changes I expect we’ll encounter as a result of the system installation," she said.
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| McKay-Dee Hospital's Sara Robertson has enjoyed working with the PACS and DR equipment at the Olympic Polyclinic. |
Robertson received her education as a CT and x-ray technologist at Boise State University in Idaho. Currently, she works for Intermountain Health Care’s McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, UT.
When she heard about the opportunity for techs to work at the Olympic Polyclinic in the Olympic Village, she tracked down an application on the Internet and applied. With the support of her department, she has managed to volunteer her time and expertise to the Polyclinic with a combination of vacation time and some double shifts at McKay-Dee.
"It was really important to me to be able to contribute to the Olympics and provide healthcare to the athletes, so I don’t really mind having to work a few long days to be able to do that," she said.
The mainstay of Robertson’s work at the clinic has been a combination of lower-extremity (primarily knees and toes) and posteroanterior and lateral chest x-ray exams. Working with the digital x-ray system (DirectView DR9000, Kodak) has been enjoyable as well. "It allows me to immediately see the result of the x-ray, so it’s a lot easier to get a good image," she said.
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
February 23, 2002
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