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Digitalization in Hospitals

• Some main steps

– Radiology digitalization

– Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)

– Radiology information system (RIS/HIS)

– CT; MR; US picture integration

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Digitalization in Hospitals

• Radiology information archiving (HIS/RIS)

– Low investments and grate decrease of working wolume

• Lacking knowledge of PC burdens the introduction

• Personel training with sophisticated and expensive technologies.

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Digitalization in Hospitals

• Radiology digitalization– Image getting plates

• Cheap, flexible

– More rooms

– Mobile X-Ray facilities

• Personel friendly

– Constant positioning

– Digital X-ray facility with direct detector

– Not all images are assumptive to digitalize (bones, joints)

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Benefits from digitalization

• Modern radiology departement

• Qualitative X-ray examinations, enduring quality X-ray examination archive

• Decrease dose of radiation for patients and personel

• Desrease number of displays

• Economy of films, X-ray lab liquidation

• Raising the productivity of (radiologists and nurse)labour

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Digitalization in Hospitals

• Picture archiving and Communications System (PACS) innovation

• Not just saving but everyday use

• Good local network is necesary

• Local IT administrator is necesary

• Frustration of clinicists – there is no radiogram to examine towards light

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Digitalization in Hospitals

• CT; MR; US picture integration

– DICOM connection (extra expences)

– Workstations

• evaluation (CT; MR; US; DR)

• MPR; 3D and other reconstructions (CT; MR)

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Plates readerID/QC station

Radiology nurse workstation Radiologist workstation

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Picture archiving and Communications System (PACS)

• Primary capacity– Upgrading

– Increase of amount of archivated data

• Software– Time and quantity of data processing

– Security and data protection (doubling)

– Integration by RIS/HIS

• Web – Local network (number of users)

– external network - internet (user level access )