Carestream launches 3D PACS
Carestream Health has launched its latest picture archiving and communications platform. The company says it provides clinicians with advanced 3D capabilities, centralised storage of both non-DICOM and DICOM data, and a new user interface. Davis Hirschorn, director of radiology informatics at Staten Island University Hospital, New York, where the system has been trialled, said: “The […]
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Dutch hospital buys new Carestream PACS
The Nij Smellinghe Hospital in The Netherlands has signed a new multi-year contract with Carestream Health for radiology information and picture archiving and communication eHealth Managed Services. The new contract will deliver an enterprise-wide system that will allow for fast, secure image access by onsite and remote clinicians. Wim Loman, IT manager at Nij Smellinghe […]
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PACS and Teleradiology Group at EHI Live
E-Health Insider Live 2010 will host this year’s UK PACS and Teleradiography Group meeting, to provide delegates with an insight into next generation picture archiving and communications systems. The group is a special interest group of the Royal College of Radiologists and includes radiologists, radiographers, healthcare IT professionals and PACS managers. It runs a very […]
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Cornwall integrates breast screening
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has streamlined its breast imaging system to fully integrate it with the National Breast Screening Service system. The trust has implemented six syngo MammoReport workstations from Siemens to provide reading and reporting of mammograms in both screening and diagnostic settings. The workstations, which are based at the Mermaid Centre […]
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UZ Gent first with hospital-wide PACS
Belgium’s largest single site hospital has started implementing the first hospital-wide PACS in the country, using a system from Carestream Health.
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McKesson provides PACS to CircleBath
McKesson has signed a strategic partnership with Circle to provide its picture archiving and communication system to its private facilities in Bath.
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Birmingham to use Siemens’ Syngo.via
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham will be one of the first in England to implement Siemens’ new Syngo.via imaging software. The new £545m hospital, which will be the largest single-site hospital in the UK, will implement the multi-modality imaging software to compliment its four MRIs, four CT scanners and gamma camera systems. The […]
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Derby City leads on breast imaging
Only one of England’s 82 local breast screening programmes is fully integrated with its local PACS – but other sites are making progress, UKRC 2010 heard this week.
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GE wins Wales image sharing contract
Hospitals in south-east Wales are to become early adopters of a new system developed with GE Healthcare that will allow them to share radiology images easily by joining up existing PACS. The PACS image sharing early-adopter is scheduled to begin in summer 2010 and run for six months. The work has been agreed under a […]
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Spine could be engineered for XDS-I
Engineering the NHS Spine to support an XDS-I based solution for medical image sharing is “possible, but reasonably hard”, BT technologists have concluded.
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