Beaumont
Hospital provides Medical Image
Enabled Electronic Patient Record
IT Newssheet - 18th
March 2003
Beaumont Hospital has utilised
software and services from Manitex
to provide a web based Medical Image enabled
Electronic Patient Record. This will allow
clinical staff anywhere in the Hospital, via the
Hospital’s Intranet, to review available Medical
Images (e.g. X-ray, Cat Scan, MRI, Nuclear Medicine)
along with the results of patient tests. In line
with the Hospital IT strategy the solution utilises
lightweight software components based on open industry
standards i.e. Browser based clients, Linux servers.
The architecture of the solution allows it to operate
on standard PCs over a standard Hospital Network.
The solution from Manitex is based on the NetRAAD
Integrated Medical Image Management product. This
has been utilised to integrate the Hospital Information
System, the Diagnostic machines in the Radiology
Department and the Hospital Intranet.
The following features are included:·
:· Integration using DICOM
and HL-7 Health Informatics standards·
:· On-line acquisition of
medical images from the diagnostic machines and
storage management in the Hospital’s Image
Archive. ·
:· On-line patient worklists
for the Radiographers based on test requests entered
into the Hospital Information System.·
:· Distribution and display
of Medical Images as part of the Hospital’s
Electronic Patient Record across the Hospital’s
standard network.
IT manager Tony Kenny commented “The
NetRAAD
solution fitted perfectly with our technology
infrastructure and has enabled us to implement a
state-of-the-art facility at a fraction of the cost
of equivalent offerings. It allows us to make
important clinical information easily available to
doctors and nurses directly to their workplace
assisting them in providing a more efficient and
responsive service to the Hospital’s patients.
As a by product we have created along term Image
Archive and built up valuable experience in the
DICOM standard that will provide the ideal
foundation for a PACS implementation when the
Hospital and Radiology Department are ready for this”.
Expansion Plans:
The system is currently installed in pilot mode
making images available from X-Ray, Cat Scan, MRI
and Nuclear Medicine. The solution will be expanded
to include all diagnostic modalities and will be
made available to more users across the Hospital
in the coming months.
A sister product EndoRAAD
is also being implemented by Manitex in the Hospital’s
Endoscopic Unit which supports the department’s
workflow and allows the doctors real time capture
of video and still images from Endoscopic procedures.
These images will also be made available across
the Hospital via NetRAAD.
For
full details please see the following Newssheet
(in PDF format).
Newssheet
– 18th
March 2003
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