Article • Improvement
Big data and its role for radiology
Big data has the potential to offer a better understanding of how to aggregate clinically relevant data on a large scale and deliver better computer aided diagnosis algorithms and tools.
PACS
Article • In Andalucía
Europe’s largest PACS project
Investment in health has been paralysed in the peninsula for the past few years, but Spain will soon have the largest picture archiving and communications system (PACS) in Europe. Accenture and Carestream are currently implementing a joint project in Andalucia, framed within the bilateral cooperation agreement between the Andalucian Health Service and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism,…
News • Cancer care
Swedish healthcare region invests in digital pathology from Sectra
The Swedish healthcare Region Östergötland is making a full commitment to digital pathology by investing in a solution from Sectra for storage, review and sharing of digital pathology images. The aim of the region’s investment is more rapid care for cancer patients, in which pathology has a key role in diagnosis and treatment.
News • MS patients
Linköping University Hospital installs SyMRI NEURO
Linköping University Hospital in Sweden installs SyMRI NEURO from SyntheticMR in order to improve the follow-up of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). SyMRI enables objective follow-up of brain atrophy through automatic calculation of Brain Parenchymal Fraction (BPF). After an initial pilot project, the aim is to take SyMRI into clinical use in Region Östergötland during 2016.
News • Digital Pathology
Dutch university hospital pioneer in digital pathology with solution from Sectra
University Hospital Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands has invested in a solution from Sectra for storing, viewing and sharing digital pathology images. The solution enables pathologists to review cases for primary diagnostics digitally. This new opportunity significantly increases workflow efficiency and offers enhanced collaboration between pathologists and radiologists at the hospital enabling…
Article • OR goes digital
The entrance of PACS-Surgery
Picture Archiving and Communications systems (PACS) are well established for managing radiology images. Could this robust and mature technology now become the backbone for creating the digital operating theatre? Report: John Brosky
Article • Communication
Is PACS ready to expand beyond radiology images?
Nine out of 10 hospitals in western Europe have a fully operational picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) to manage and exchange medical images. The integration has become so routine that now other physicians are asking why they can not as easily share with others the images they generate with non-radiology devices. Report: John Brosky
Sponsored • Testing Colours
Dome - Displays benefit from auto-calibration
The standard Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) enables the integration of scanners, servers, workstations, printers and network hardware from multiple manufacturers into a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). It can also sort out when, where and how to calibrate a display. DICOM recommends regular calibration, in the centre of the display with a 10% target and…
Sponsored • Testing Bones
Osteoporosis risk assessments with DXR
Women over the age of 50 are not only at higher risk of developing breast cancer but also osteoporosis. Would it not be practical to use the same method to detect both diseases early on? Definitely, decided Sectra, the Swedish company specialising in PACS and mammography systems.
Sponsored • NDSSI
Calibration – when, where and how
DICOM calibration is one of the defining characteristics of a diagnostic display. DICOM specifies when, where, and how to calibrate a display. DICOM recommends regular calibration, in the center of the display with a 10 % target and 20 % gray surround, using a calibrated photometer.
News • IHE Connectathon 2015
Sectra tests display of breast tomo images
At the recent North American IHE Connectathon in Cleveland, Sectra (STO: SECT B) successfully completed testing of the IHE profiles MAMMO and DBT (Digital Breast Tomosynthesis). The testing was done using Sectra PACS which implements the Image Display and Image Manager actors of these profiles.
News • Market News
Advanced Visualization Solutions Boost Imaging Companies
As healthcare systems across the globe churn out imaging scans in larger numbers, the need for advanced visualization (AV) solutions that enable physicians to effectively visualize and analyze examination results is rising. In the face of growing diagnostic workloads in Western Europe, AV solutions help physicians arrive at accurate diagnoses of pathologies, thereby enhancing patient management.
News • Market
Andalusia Health Service Selects Accenture and Carestream
Andalusia Health Service has selected Accenture and Carestream Health to deploy a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) that will allow clinicians to manage, store and share diagnostic imaging data across more than 1,600 healthcare facilities in Spain. This initiative by the Andalusia Health Service is expected to go live in late 2015, creating one of the largest medical imaging…
Article • Visualisation
New diagnostic display will redefine readings
Reading radiology exams has become a real pain. According to Piet Candeel, General Manager for Healthcare at visualisation expert Barco, ‘Today there are more studies of more patients with more images and typically with fewer people.’ Report: John Brosky
Confident and quick diagnoses - The Samsung DR GF50
In many practices and hospitals the X-ray systems need to be modernised. Increasingly, physicians opt for digital radiography (DR) systems, as did Dr Joachim Münch and Dr Dennis Völker who run an orthopaedic and surgical practice in Winsen an der Luhe, Germany.
Medicine and the Internet of Things
According to Gartner, the IT research and advisory company, the Internet of Things (IoT)*, excluding PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion devices by 2020.
Sectra brings PACS power to pathology
"I can count on my fingers the number of pathologists who work full digitally," said Elin Kindberg who is leading the development of a pathology PACS for Sectra Imaging IT Solutions. Conventional light microscopes continued to be standard tool for examining histo-pathology slides.
Healthcare IT must adopt top security
Hospitals across Europe need to take further steps to better protect the sensitive data stored on their healthcare IT systems. With eavesdropping into secure systems brought sharply into focus as a result of revelations of monitoring by the US National Security Agency (NSA), a leading communication expert has warned that many hospitals across Europe need to take further steps to better protect…
Carestream connects UK hospitals
When it comes to storing images PACS remains king across the industry, but increasingly vendor-neutral archives (VNAs), particularly cloud-based examples, are gaining market share fast due to their ability to bring significant financial, productivity and clinical quality benefits.
Philips and Sectra renew PACS support agreement
Royal Philips Electronics and Sectra today announced an agreement to extend the term of their existing PACS support partnership agreement. This agreement allows Philips to provide continued support for Sectra PACS installations through 2020, and can be extended on a yearly basis thereafter.
Intrasense and IMAGE ink collaboration
RIS and PACS vendor, IMAGE Information Systems, and advanced visualization specialist, Intrasense, combine forces to deliver 3D/4D advanced image post-processing features in an integrated PACS solution.
Article • syngo.plaza VB10
The next level of reading efficiency
At healthcare facilities across the globe, the Siemens PACS syngo.plaza delivers high-throughput reading, easy-to-manage IT, and the ultimate potential of the syngo platform.
The next level of reading efficiency
At healthcare facilities across the globe, the Siemens PACS syngo.plaza delivers high-throughput reading, easy-to-manage IT, and the ultimate potential of the syngo platform.
Cloud computing takes the European healthcare industry by storm
Enterprise-wide healthcare informatics will improve quality of medical services and efficiency of operations while reducing expenditures. Like many other verticals, the intensely competitive and dynamic healthcare industry is looking to cloud computing as a means to improve quality of services while reducing costs
Image analysis opens new frontier in radiology
You won't find a single new machine among the novel technology shaping radiology. Instead software, not hardware, is the key that is opening new frontiers.
