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GE Healthcare GE’s Open Desktop Drives Integration of Xeleris Nuclear Medicine Suite and GE Centricity PACS
GE Healthcare GE’s Open Desktop Drives Integration of Xeleris Nuclear Medicine Suite and GE Centricity PACS
GE’s Open Desktop Drives Integration of Xeleris Nuclear Medicine Suite and GE Centricity PACS
Monday, 15 June 2009 04:34 | 
| Company News - GE Healthcare |
GE Healthcare Continues to Demonstrate “One Desktop” Concept by Adding Complete Processing and Review Functionality for Nuclear Medicine.
GE Healthcare highlighted the successful integration of Xeleris Suite for Nuclear Medicine into the GE Centricity PACS RA1000 workstation at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM). Through GE’s Open Desktop technology, enabling users to integrate best-of-breed applications with true enterprise connectivity regardless of department or clinical specialty, clinicians can now benefit from a single database for patient selection, reporting, and archiving for true multi-modality patient review, including nuclear medicine tools and reprocessing capabilities.
With Xeleris Suite, nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists can conduct nuclear image review on the Centricity PACS RA 1000 workstation beyond the limitations of simple screen captures and raw data. This includes a wide array of clinical applications such as Xeleris Myometrix and Emory Cardiac Toolbox™ cardiac analysis tools as well as SPECT/CT and PET/CT image review. Multi-modality image reading from a single location could lead to improved clinical productivity and diagnostic confidence.
“Open desktop integration responds to our customers’ needs at both the clinical and administrative levels,” said Ram Krishnan, General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. “It delivers new functionality to users designed to improve productivity while simultaneously extending the life of existing IT assets.”
Krishnan continued, “This integration goes beyond the single desktop concept by providing a mechanism for facilities to break down their information silos and gain the economies of scale by centralizing imaging data to the PACS DICOM archive.”
As a result, nuclear medicine departments will gain the added benefit of PACS disaster recovery and business continuance (DR/BC), which will support the high availability of nuclear medicine studies throughout the enterprise as well as the ability to view prior exams, including videos and 3D rendered images, in Centricity PACS 3.0 via DICOM Multiframe Secondary Capture (MFSC). Additional features include a simple, customizable user interface, automatic server/PACS data synchronization, and easy access to previous exams from the PACS long-term archive. With Xeleris Suite, reprocessed data and physician-saved screen captures are automatically stored to PACS.
"By launching the Xeleris applications via the Centricity PACS RA1000 workstation, we have found the clinicians’ workflow is much more efficient (with) extensive nuclear medicine processing and review functionality at a single location,” says James Traylor, Supervisor Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Kansas Hospital. “We’re thrilled with the results.”
GE Healthcare is demonstrating the integration and its Open Desktop solution as part of its technology expo at the Society of Nuclear Medicine congress in Toronto, Canada June 13-17 at the GE Healthcare Booth 1620.
ABOUT GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit website at www.gehealthcare.com.
Source: GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare highlighted the successful integration of Xeleris Suite for Nuclear Medicine into the GE Centricity PACS RA1000 workstation at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM). Through GE’s Open Desktop technology, enabling users to integrate best-of-breed applications with true enterprise connectivity regardless of department or clinical specialty, clinicians can now benefit from a single database for patient selection, reporting, and archiving for true multi-modality patient review, including nuclear medicine tools and reprocessing capabilities.
With Xeleris Suite, nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists can conduct nuclear image review on the Centricity PACS RA 1000 workstation beyond the limitations of simple screen captures and raw data. This includes a wide array of clinical applications such as Xeleris Myometrix and Emory Cardiac Toolbox™ cardiac analysis tools as well as SPECT/CT and PET/CT image review. Multi-modality image reading from a single location could lead to improved clinical productivity and diagnostic confidence.
“Open desktop integration responds to our customers’ needs at both the clinical and administrative levels,” said Ram Krishnan, General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. “It delivers new functionality to users designed to improve productivity while simultaneously extending the life of existing IT assets.”
Krishnan continued, “This integration goes beyond the single desktop concept by providing a mechanism for facilities to break down their information silos and gain the economies of scale by centralizing imaging data to the PACS DICOM archive.”
As a result, nuclear medicine departments will gain the added benefit of PACS disaster recovery and business continuance (DR/BC), which will support the high availability of nuclear medicine studies throughout the enterprise as well as the ability to view prior exams, including videos and 3D rendered images, in Centricity PACS 3.0 via DICOM Multiframe Secondary Capture (MFSC). Additional features include a simple, customizable user interface, automatic server/PACS data synchronization, and easy access to previous exams from the PACS long-term archive. With Xeleris Suite, reprocessed data and physician-saved screen captures are automatically stored to PACS.
"By launching the Xeleris applications via the Centricity PACS RA1000 workstation, we have found the clinicians’ workflow is much more efficient (with) extensive nuclear medicine processing and review functionality at a single location,” says James Traylor, Supervisor Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Kansas Hospital. “We’re thrilled with the results.”
GE Healthcare is demonstrating the integration and its Open Desktop solution as part of its technology expo at the Society of Nuclear Medicine congress in Toronto, Canada June 13-17 at the GE Healthcare Booth 1620.
ABOUT GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit website at www.gehealthcare.com.
Source: GE Healthcare
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