PACS/Client Server Enhances Clinical Applications and Streamlines Workflow

A completely integrated scalable picture archiving and communication system/client server (PACS/CS) enhances the entire clinical workflow, with advanced tools for two-dimensional (2D), 3D, and 4D image review and interpretation, post-processing, data management, and image distribution.

Visage Imaging (Carlsbad, CA, USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., will be showcasing its comprehensive range of life sciences systems and services at an upcoming Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) meeting, focusing on Visage PACS/CS, a unique scalable PACS/CS based on web and thin client technology with fully integrated clinical applications. One highlight of this year's product preview will be a major new release of Visage Cardiac Analysis, a unique and comprehensive computed tomography (CT) cardiac application based on thin client technology.

The image data as well as the applications within Visage PACS/CS are not bound to specific workstations and become instantly accessible anywhere, anytime within the PACS workflow. Visage PACS/CS is uniquely thin client-enabled PACS. As a result, it provides virtually instant data access and excellent 3D performance anywhere inside and outside the hospital enterprise, on existing workstations, personal computers (PCs), and laptops. The latest version of Visage PACS/CS provides greatly improved performance also in Wide Area Networks (WAN) and over slow DSL lines, thus enabling very efficient remote operation across distributed imaging centers, providing better services to referring physicians, and providing new ways for reviewing images efficiently from home.


The upcoming version of Visage Cardiac Analysis will include a very rich set of new tools and optimizations such as calcium scoring, myocard segmentation, wall-thickening computation, improved reporting, and efficient manual editing. This makes Visage Cardiac Analysis a comprehensive and integrated cardiac analysis application that is not bound to a specialized workstation. The Visage PACS/CS platform allows for sharing data and applications across radiology and cardiology departments, and helps to unleash the true potential of the latest scanner technologies and diagnostic tools.

Furthermore, the RSNA preview of Visage PACS/CS will feature new and optimized tools for radiology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, surgery, and other subspecialties in general, such as application-specific display and post-processing protocols, saving and sharing of annotations and post-processing results, volume analysis of lesions and structures in 3D, improved automatic bone removal.

By combining immediate and efficient access to all images and reports with a unique and comprehensive set of advanced clinical applications, this PACS/CS significantly optimizes the entire workflow across the complete healthcare environment.


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