Carestream Health will begin taking orders for its SuperPACS metaPACS architecture and will highlight new PACS enhancements at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in Chicago.
SuperPACS is designed to enable healthcare systems with multiple PACS networks to use a single interface to view and access patient images and data. The application creates a global, shared patient and clinical information database across multiple sites and routes information to the correct physician. Carestream believes that SuperPACS will result in improved workflow and efficiency.
In PACS technology, Carestream will use the HIMSS meeting to highlight a "power viewer" for its PACS workstation that the company believes can speed interpretation and reporting for routine exams and 3D imaging studies where complex datasets need to be compared. This upgrade, which is part of the company's next generation of PACS software, provides automatic registration and volumetric matching of 3D studies created at different times and by different modalities directly within the viewer used by radiologists.
Carestream believes the viewer goes beyond the functionality offered by native or integrated 3D capabilities: Radiologists will be able to directly and dynamically view image data in different planes without switching to other workstations or applications. Automatic registration among different studies allows radiologists to manipulate one dataset in any spatial plane, and the other datasets will automatically follow.
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