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At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, GE Healthcare celebrated successes as well as its latest Centricity PACS-IW version

Marking another important milestone in the globalization of Web-based PACS and RIS / PACS solutions, GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company, announced its Centricity PACS-IW product is now in use at 100 international institutions and more than 400 in the United States, totaling more than 500 total customers over more than 900 sites around the globe. At this week’s meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, the company celebrated those successes as well as its latest Centricity PACS-IW version 3.7.3 that helps improve quality of care, reduce cost and significantly improve access to imaging studies.

The milestone means PACS-IW is presently in use in nearly every region of the world, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Some of the most recent new Centricity PACS-IW international customers include:

• Kurume University School of Medicine (Kurume, Japan)
• Diwan, Chand & Arrgarwal [DCA] (New Delhi, India)
• Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia [HUSM] (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

“We’re thrilled to have more than 500 customers worldwide enjoying the Web-based benefits of PACS-IW,” said Don Woodlock, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT. “Despite the geographic diversity of our global PACS-IW customer base, it’s interesting to note that our customers share common challenges and core needs. Our customers strive to provide timely access to imaging results to referring physicians, while also providing radiologists with the requisite tools to manage imaging growth. Centricity PACS-IW helps provide them a robust Web-based PACS platform to drive radiology operations, enable optimal service to referring physicians and help improve radiologist productivity.”

With the unveiling of version 3.7.3, GE Healthcare IT has engineered a global product that supports systems integration, language and character set localization in English and ten additional languages.  Available as an optional module to 3.7.3 is Centricity PACS-IW Oncology Workflow, providing advanced Web-based PET/CT image fusion, reconstruction and automatic MIP all within the native PACS user interface for use by radiologists, oncologists and referring physicians. This latest release also includes performance improvements, an improved graphical user interface, as well as optimized integration to GE’s Web-based RIS, Centricity RIS-IC, and advanced speech understanding solution, Centricity Precision Reporting. Offered as Centricity Radiology-IW for Web-based RIS/PACS, the integration of PACS-IW version 3.7.3, RIS-IC and Precision Reporting combine to deliver tighter patient context sharing for paperless workflow, powerful reporting and improved  radiologist productivity.

Source: GE Healthcare

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