Carestream Health demonstrates advantages of PACS platform, SuperPACS(TM) architecture for IT staffs

BARCELONA, SPAIN - (HealthTech Wire / News) - Carestream Health showcased the advantages offered to IT administrators by its SuperPACS™ Architecture and its latest work in progress PACS platform at the World of Health IT 2010 conference.

Carestream Health’s latest PACS platform helps facilitate IT support by providing users with one easy-to-use display interface to associate imported DICOM and non-DICOM data into an existing patient portfolio. The currently available CARESTREAM PACS already delivers the ability to view DICOM and non-DICOM data, eliminating the need for IT staff to provide users with access to different systems to obtain this information.

The SuperPACS™ Architecture simultaneously streamlines radiologist workflow and simplifies information management by creating a global enterprise-wide worklist that contains imaging studies created from multiple vendors’ PACS located throughout the enterprise. Using advanced tunneling technology, data-intensive studies can be quickly delivered to radiologists on demand from any location, and do not require pre-fetching or pre-archiving of the image data to a central location. Since patient information and metadata from existing archives are synchronized into a central database, IT administrators do not need to perform expensive and time-consuming migration of pixel data.

The company’s SuperPACS™ Architecture easily combines or separates patient data created at multiple sites by supporting a Master Patient ID using IHE profiles. This means that a patient-centric view may be created and assures that data from different patients—who may have been assigned the same local patient ID at different facilities—does not get mixed up.

Carestream Health’s PACS and SuperPACS™ Architecture are designed to meet the needs of hospitals and healthcare enterprises, regional health networks, single- or multi-site imaging centres, reading groups and teleradiology services.

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