Carestream’s new Clinical Collaboration Platform allows providers to identify and share diverse patient clinical data to help clinicians make diagnostic and treatment decisions. This data can also be shared with patients during consultations. One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare IT today is the vast amount of data that exists in siloed systems that limit accessibility. This type of infrastructure increases costs and makes it difficult to access clinical data, which impedes the quality of diagnostic services. Consolidating storage devices with a vendor-neutral archive is a good foundation, but the challenge is to deliver better access and management of unstructured data so that a comprehensive view of patient data can be maintained and distributed to authorized users. Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform can be integrated as modules within a provider’s existing IT ecosystem. Using the latest interoperability standards allows data to be aggregated, which creates a holistic view of the patient. This can also mitigate the need for expensive data migration from older systems by federating multiple devices. A vendor-neutral archive (VNA) links radiology, endoscopy, pathology, cardiology, lab results and other forms of data. Carestream’s flexible Clinical Collaboration Platform can complement a provider’s existing departmental PACS or archive and offers a series of optional modules that can bring unstructured data into the clinical work-flow and enhance the delivery of patient images and reports to clinicians
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Carestream’s Managed Print Solutions programme pairs the outstanding image quality of its DRYVIEW laser imagers and medical films with a comprehensive, all-inclusive programme that provides a broad range of benefits to healthcare providers.

The programme helps eliminate the capital investment in film printing systems and offers a
convenient payment model based on per-print usage. Management is through an easy-to-use Web portal that provides innovative tools to monitor film usage, inventory, billing and service information. Under this programme, Carestream maintains its laser imagers at the healthcare provider’s location, and remotely monitors operations.

The Managed Print Solutions programme is uniquely designed to provide customers with administrative and operational efficiencies that offer several advantages including:

• Automatic replenishment of
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Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging for Radiology system now offers new features and options that include enhanced functionalities for collaboration, reporting and viewing, and offsite-hosted deployment.  This unified imaging management platform offers a powerful task-based workflow designed to achieve gains in clinical productivity and optimizes total cost of ownership. New features enhance the ease of use and diagnostic value of radiology reports. Sectional, structured, standardized reporting lets tables and measurements be directly imported into the report, saving the radiologist time and improving accuracy. Key images are also automatically inserted into the report, for greater diagnostic value for the clinician. Advanced visualization tools can be embedded into the diagnostic and review workflows without starting a separate application. This includes 3D segmentation tools, 3D registration for improved synchronized navigation for multi-modality and follow-up examinations, PET-SPECT fusion support and full multi-modality women’s imaging support, including digital breast tomosynthesis. Increasingly, hospitals are looking for new deployment models for implementing solutions that better meet their financial strategies and goals.
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The Carestream Dryview 6950 laser imager is designed to produce rapid output of high-resolution images for all imaging modalities including mammography. In addition to CT, MR, CR, DR and other modalities, this new laser imager also will support output of full-field digital mammography (FFDM) and CR mammography images. It can deliver a maximum film density of 4.0, which is preferred for mammography. Key test patterns are included to assist with mammography quality assurance procedures and regulatory requirements. A built-in densitometer measures and displays key film density values, which can eliminate the need for manual density measurements from test films. The laser imaging system delivers from 160 to 250 films per hour with 650 pixels-per-inch resolution on every film size. Three film supplies come standard with the laser imager, and film size changes are made easy by simply exchanging the film cartridge. The intuitive user interface includes a multilingual touch-screen user panel with a built-in ‘help interface’ to simplify instruction, operation and user training. Each cartridge holds 125 film sheets to minimize loading frequency. An optional five-bin, top-mounted sorter provides quick access to desired patient films by modality for greater efficiency and control. Carestream Smart Link remote management services provide technical support with remote monitoring and diagnostic solutions that can continuously track the status of each laser imager. Users also have access to Carestream’s Customer Success Network that includes a global team of experts.
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