RIS/PACS vendor Brit Systems introduced several new products and partnerships at the 2008 RSNA conference in Chicago.
The Dallas-based company launched Brit Speak, a standalone dictation, transcription, report distribution, and optional voice recognition system, available with the company's Roentgen RIS and Roentgen Works remote reading system. Brit Speak is also available as a modular system that includes the Voice Dictation Module or the Voice Recognition Module. The Voice Recognition Module provides direct integration with Dragon Version 10 and the Dragon Radiologist's Vocabulary, both included in the module.
The company also released its new Web-based technology platform for Roentgen Works. Roentgen Files II is a DICOM server that uses a Google database and Linux clustering technology. Brit has introduced technologies such as AJAX and Skype with the system and developed urgent findings tools. AJAX enables real-time updating of information and viewers, while Skype lets users communicate over the Internet, either by instant messaging or making phone calls that are logged and tracked. Brit has added its new Brit Speak system and an open API to Roentgen Works as well, so the worklist can launch a study in another DICOM viewer, including BRIT Vision.
In addition, Brit introduced its Brit PACS View DICOM viewer, which is downloaded and supported over the Internet. The viewer features a user-friendly design with a go-live module that includes training and support.
Connected to any DICOM-capable server, Brit PACS View obtains worklists and retrieves studies; creates, stores, and retrieves presentation states and key objects; and communicates study status with the server. It supports reading and exporting PDF-compliant CDs and optional DICOM printing. Brit PACS View also supports multiple monitors of same or different resolution and orientation, and provides advanced image manipulation tools.
Brit also announced a number of new partnerships. The company is moving into the international market by partnering with Tamer Group in Saudi Arabia. Brit will provide PACS, RIS, and teleradiology products, as well as power the organization's reading service with the Roentgen Works remote reading service.
In the U.S., Brit has joined Vision Imaging Partners, a nationwide network of distributors. Members will have access to the company's complete line of products and services.
Brit has also partnered with nuclear medicine services provider Numed to offer PACS for nuclear medicine departments.
In the orthopedic market, Brit is partnering with Ten20, an orthopedic and neurosurgical products and services company. Ten20 is working with BRIT developers on specialized viewing tools and packaging for its customers.
Brit has also teamed up with Invia Medical Imaging Solutions to develop new nuclear medicine image viewing capabilities on Brit's workstations by integrating Invia's 4DM-Spect on a Citrix server. The thin-client viewer will allow the viewing of nuclear medicine images on the same workstation as other modalities.
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