MUSC continues to provide patients with the most advanced diagnostic and treatment options available anywhere, including state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization laboratories and the only integrated cardiac imaging and interventional radiology center in the state. In fact, Ashley River Tower features technology that can only be found at a handful of leading hospitals in the country.  The hospital also has the flexibility to accommodate tomorrow’s innovations – some of which are being pioneered at MUSC.

Advanced information technology is an integral part of Ashley River Tower’s design, fostering more efficient, effective and accurate communication between health care professionals and information systems.  Highlights include:

Electronic Medical Records
New electronic medical records system enhancing communications, efficiency and accuracy of patient-related information

Dual Source Scanner
MUSC was the first hospital in the Southeast - and remains the only one in the area -to acquire a 128-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner. This cutting-edge diagnostic device gathers images and data from a patient’s entire heart in 10 seconds or less.

Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System
MUSC was among the first hospitals in the country to install a Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System, which steers catheters and guide wires through the heart and vascular system with precision.

State-of-the-art operating rooms featuring advanced information technology
During surgery, physicians will only have to press a button to retrieve information they need to treat the patient. Anything that is on the patient’s electronic record, whether it be an image from a catheterization, lab results or an echocardiogram, can instantaneously be brought up on a monitor in the operating room. The new MUSC hospital will be one of the first in the nation to have this capability in the operating room.

Physicians in the operating room can be immediately available to patients in any other area of the hospital. If an ICU nurse sees that a patient is in trouble, and needs the patient’s surgeon through a camera in the room the nurse can send an image of the patient directly to the operating room.