Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pa.) introduces the Syngo® Suite, image acquisition, Radiology Information System (RIS), Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), and post-processing come together with the clinical and administrative cycles addressed by Soarian®, Siemens new generation health information solution (HIS). Soarian features a longitudinal clinical repository that gives clinicians browser-based, real-time access to the complete patient record, including patient histories, demographics, allergies, results and images. Through Syngo, all healthcare workflow, from scheduling and imaging to viewing and reporting, is role-based and available at a clinician's fingertips.

Working across all modalities and offering advanced RIS, PACS, and post-processing in a comprehensive package for all imaging needs in radiology and cardiology, the syngo Suite includes: Siemens Radiology PACS, which is scalable to meet the needs of large academic medical settings to smaller diagnostic imaging centers, features specialized workplaces including the Smart Select tool that allows the radiologist to perform a multitude of viewing and post-processing functions without diverting the eyes from the image display. In addition, in order to address the large image data volumes that are produced by imaging modalities such as multi-slice computed tomography, a fast transmission protocol (iMaxcess) enables the workstation to retrieve and send images from/to the central server up to four to five times faster then a standard DICOM transfer.