Current medical imaging systems approach the management of digital images through a "brute force" solution. These systems are built on the assumption that the complete study has to be delivered to the user before viewing and attempts to use dedicated high-end networks, complex pre-fetching and routing algorithms and expensive workstations to deliver massive amounts of data.
In contrast, iSyntax is based on mathematical representations of images called wavelets, which enable the on-demand delivery of image data. As a result, users receive rapid access to as much imaging data as they require. This advanced technology delivers full-fidelity medical images over existing hospital networks, making large infrastructure upgrades unnecessary.
A New Paradigm for Image Distribution
Despite the evolution of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), workflow management in radiology is still largely based on moving around bits of paper.
Philips' paperless worklist interfaces with your pre-existing RIS/HIS systems. This provides the appropriate workflow information directly to:
- Radiologists: work-to-do lists and Order/Protocol
- Technologists: scheduled exam list for modalities
- Referring Physicians: a view of their patients
- Critical Care Areas: ICU/ER/OR and patient ward-specific worklists
Philips' unique workflow model efficiently manages multiple patient ID's for a single patient across an integrated health system with multiple RIS/HIS.
Delivering truly integrated data necessary in a clinical setting, IntelliSpace PACS 4.4 utilizes a single database reducing archaic pre-fetching and auto-routing schema. Faulty interfaces, corrupted data, and exceptions handling no longer require extra effort to allow synchronizing of PACS and RIS databases. IntelliSpace PACS delivers on the promise of "images and appropriate information anytime, anywhere*."
*It is the user's responsibility to ensure that Philips' network performance recommendations for IntelliSpace PACS 4.4 are met.