Next-Generation PACS Software Is Faster, with More Powerful Measurement, Communication Tools

A new version of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) software has been designed to improve diagnostic speed and accuracy, and integrates effective tools for measuring, monitoring, and comparing measurements over time. The software also provides optimized support for collaborative working through the effective and secure transmission and sharing of digital medical images.

Launched at the Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR) Technical Exhibition and Congress, held in Paris (France), October 2013, Telemis Medical PACS version 4.5, developed by Telemis (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), a specialist in medical imaging solutions, provides new tools for monitoring and comparing lesion measurements, including improved techniques for the co-registration of multiple images. The company, at the same time, has made database access and image streaming much faster. The latest version of the platform also introduces a new concept of simple, integrated image exchange between Telemis PACS-equipped institutions.

Speed and performance are very important for hospitals, clinics, and medical practices that are trying to improve efficiency and diagnostic accuracy through the use of a PACS platform. With Telemis-Medical PACS version 4.5, Telemis has substantially improved system speed and response by focusing on improvements to its database and content indexing. Visualization of large volumes of image data is now faster thanks to a new volume imaging server-streaming technology, while a TM- Prefetcher module allows pre-loading of images to a console from a regional PACS archive.

Version 4.5 also integrates improvements to the TM-Publisher Web regional image distribution system that supports secure Internet access of images and data. New Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) functionalities and re-publication features support rapid access of archived images and data and eliminate the need for general practitioners (GPs) and other offsite medical personnel to make specific requests for older data. TM-Publisher Web is compatible with regional networks such as Réseau de Santé Wallon-Walloon Health Network (RSW).

To facilitate pathology progression measurement Telemis-Medical PACS version 4.5 features an improved solution for tracking and comparing radiology findings. Simple and rapid comparison with earlier reviews and the measurement of new lesions are accomplished through an intuitive interface in only a few clicks. Multimodal comparison capabilities ensure precision diagnosis, while the new graphic user interface (GUI) is enhanced to the requirements of radiology specialists.

In its latest release, Telemis has also enhanced communication between different collaborating medical facilities. With this PACS, users can communicate with nearly 200 hospitals and medical facilities currently use a Telemis PACS platform in which digital images can be sent rapidly and securely to another site with as few as three clicks. This eliminates the costs, time, and hassle of burning images to CD- ROMs and then sending them by overnight courier when seeking second opinions or transferring patients between facilities.

Telemis CEO, Stephane Ketelaer, said, “As well as offering new PACS users the very latest in image archiving, retrieval and sharing, the latest version of Telemis-Medical PACS is also a way to thank existing customers who have trusted us for many years. Telemis-Medical PACS version 4.5 provides those customers with a simple and secure way of communicating between different sites, together with faster, more powerful software that supports major advances in aiding diagnostic accuracy.”

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