Success Stories #17

 Telemis : the MC-PACS solution.DR MONDET’s testimonial.

DR MONDET performs approximately 25 studies on a daily basis for the social security in Belgium. As far as medico-legal studies are concerned, he collaborates with more than 120 experts. Unlike most of the official experts, he dedicates more than 80% of his time to these assessments, which equates to approximately 1000 studies annually. In addition he has high-performance IT equipment at his disposal. Diagnostic services, in general, rely on medical studies available on CD-ROM, or on studies performed on site, or subcontracted to an external medical imaging center. This especially relevant for MR and CT scans.

As to the assessments, the study number greatly exceeds, by three to four times, the number realized in a hospital environment. Overall, conventional radiography and echography are combined, and a CT or MR scan is regularly added.

Before installation

DR MONDET : "My challenge is to go filmless by using a CD-ROM for each patient, together with the option to have a paper printout whenever necessary. Among my top priorities is the automatic input of the various CD-ROM formats for my assessments, the archival of pre-selected studies (amongst others, a mammography archive) and to read data from monitors using a user-friendly application".

After installation

DR MONDET: " The use of MC-PACS brings important added value for my daily activities, such as :

• more than 25% decrease in workload for diagnostic radiology;
• smooth follow-up of the assessments;
• online medical imaging archive;
• efficient and fast CD-ROM management ".

1ere Journee Normande de TeleImagerie

La Société Normande d’Imagerie Médicale (SNIM) – délégation régionale de la Société Française de Radiologie (SFR) - le Conseil Régional et l’ARH de Basse Normandie, organisent la 1ère Journée Normande de Téléimagerie le 09 Juin prochain à l’Auditorium du Conseil Régional à Caen.
Cette journée s’inscrit dans le calendrier régional de déploiement de la Télésanté en prévision du lancement de Vikman-Santé. Il s’agit de la première manifestation portant sur un des volets structurants du SROS 3 (télémédecine en imagerie médicale) après sa publication officielle fin Mars 2006.
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Telemis s.a. acquires Electrom s.a.s.
 

Ce 21 octobre 2005, la société Telemis a clôturé l’acquisition de la société Electrom s.a.s. en France.  Electrom est fabricant de produits dans l’imagerie médicale par ultrasons.  Cette acquisition renforce la présence directe de Telemis en France et permettra d’y augmenter sa part de marché dans le domaine du PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) et du traitement d’imagerie médicale en général.

Success Stories #16

 Telemis : the MC-PACS solution.DR MONDET’s testimonial.

DR MONDET performs approximately 25 studies on a daily basis for the social security in Belgium. As far as medico-legal studies are concerned, he collaborates with more than 120 experts. Unlike most of the official experts, he dedicates more than 80% of his time to these assessments, which equates to approximately 1000 studies annually. In addition he has high-performance IT equipment at his disposal. Diagnostic services, in general, rely on medical studies available on CD-ROM, or on studies performed on site, or subcontracted to an external medical imaging center. This especially relevant for MR and CT scans.

As to the assessments, the study number greatly exceeds, by three to four times, the number realized in a hospital environment. Overall, conventional radiography and echography are combined, and a CT or MR scan is regularly added.

Before installation

DR MONDET : "My challenge is to go filmless by using a CD-ROM for each patient, together with the option to have a paper printout whenever necessary. Among my top priorities is the automatic input of the various CD-ROM formats for my assessments, the archival of pre-selected studies (amongst others, a mammography archive) and to read data from monitors using a user-friendly application".

After installation

DR MONDET: " The use of MC-PACS brings important added value for my daily activities, such as :

• more than 25% decrease in workload for diagnostic radiology;
• smooth follow-up of the assessments;
• online medical imaging archive;
• efficient and fast CD-ROM management ".

Success Stories #15

 Filmless at the University Hospitals of Mont Godinne.

On 18th June, the new premises of the Nuclear Medicine department at Mont Godinne were inaugurated.

Dr Krug, deputy head of the department, emphasizes the large amount of new modalities integrated into the PACS. He also brings up the user friendliness of the integrated system now combining the PACS and the Electronic Medical Record Omnipro from the company MIMS : “ The patient’s image history can be retrieved and directly visualized via the TM-ReceptionHE viewer of our PACS; it is even possible to perform a MPR and a MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) for various studies making it possible to compare PET and CT studies within a few seconds. This facilitates the higher quality of care which directly benefits the patient ”.

Some milestones in the last 4 months were the arrival of two new 16 and 64 slice CT canners, the introduction of CR (Computed Radiology), the start up of the TM-Publisher solution for the burning of CD-Roms for referring physicians, the elimination of traditional X-ray film and the gradual transition from the radiology network to optical fiber in order to cope with the extra workload.

Hubert Meurisse, PACS manager at Mont Godinne shares his comments on the success of a “ filmless ” installation.

From a users point of view :

• the integration of multiple modalities into the same system positively supports the medical imaging operations realized in an hospital environment;
• a single but “ secure ” access that offers clinicians a fast and efficient way to make a diagnostic and therapeutic decision;
• an integration of images in the EPR such that the referring physician obtains a centralized patient view including all clinical and diagnostic data.

From a technology point of view :

• a single software application presenting data in accordance with specific requirements of each medical imaging modality (MPR for PET, stack mode for CT,
  cineview for XA (coronarography), etc.);
• a client / server application with remote and secure access, suited to the user and to available system resources;
• an efficient integration with the EPR both at the server level (e.g. exchange of patient data modifications) and at the client level;
• a fast and user friendly application designed to replace hardcopy film for all clinicians;
• a reliable long term storage and archival;
• a reliable subsitute to hardcopy film for external referring physicians via the TM-Publisher solution.

Success Stories #14

Telemis-Medical PACS successfully tested at 2005 Connectathon
 

Between April 25th and 28th 2005, in cooperation with over one hundred other medical vendors, Telemis received full validation by the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) for all profiles Telemis tested.

Telemis-Medical IHE Integration Statement can be found at: http://www.telemis.com/ihe

Success story #13
Telemis and the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
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Success story #12
Telemis expands in Europe
(read).

Telemis-Medical PACS successfully tested at 2004 Connectathon

Between March 29th and April 2nd 2004, in cooperation with over eighty other medical vendors, Telemis received full validation by the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) for all profiles Telemis tested.

Telemis-Medical IHE Integration Statement can be found at: http://www.telemis.com/ihe

Success story #11
A hospital at the forefront of technology in Normandy
(read).

TM-Medical v.3.70
New features

IMAGE VISUALIZATION
• Improved study comparison mode.
  
• Bed/Slice location study synchronization .
  
• Reference lines display on Scanogram.
  
• Hanging protocol management.
  
• MPR free avis parallel ranges.
  
• DICOM overlays & curves management .
  
• Reshape Objects.
  
• Real size display.
  
• Circle ROI.
  
  
IMAGE STORAGE
• Multi-servers search.
  
• Multi-servers synchronization.
• Study reports status management.
• Patient Update / Patient merge
  
  
MISCELLANEOUS
• JPEG2000.
  
• DICOM CD.
• Italian and Spanish version

Success story #10
What size of archive do I need ?
(read).

Success story #9
A solution opened to specific patient records.
(read).

Success story #8
Very high availability of images.
(read).

TM-Medical v.3.60
New features

IMAGE VISUALIZATION
• Visualization of local images (e.g. DICOM, JPEG, GIF) and manual creation of new document.
  
• DICOM Send of multiple documents.
  
• "My profile" manages different profiles with same mailbox on same computer.
  
• CD Export generates CD content & layout through TMRHE.
  
• Height Measurements.
  
• MPR Free Angle.
  
• Reshape Objects.
  
• Dicom Print.
  
• Optimized speed naviguation.
• One-click DICOM send
  
  
MISCELLANEOUS
• Improved Active Support (DICOM daemon monitoring).
  
• "Active Reception Process": monitors image production level.
• Backup server management for TMR+HE, TMAA.
• XML TM-Worklist

Success story #7
A first French customer for Telemis
(read).

TM-Medical v.3.52
New features

IMAGE ACQUISITION
• Automatic or manual priority management for study creation.
  
• Improved study creation speed.
  
  
IMAGE VISUALISATION
• User configurable search presets.
  
• Create new image documents using existing studies, by selecting images, window levels, zoom ratio.
  
• Edit image document information, add description.
  
• Save new documents locally or make them available on the server for other users.
  
• Improved study auto-dump process.
  
• New viewer shortcuts to improve browsing through patient and patient studies.
  
• Improved (de)compression speed.
  
• Auto-adaptive display rate in Cine-Viewer.
  
• Density measurements on ROI (min, max, average value for a region).
  
• Shift/Ctrl keys available to (un)select images.
  
  
MISCELLANEOUS
• Proactive server and acquisition monitoring process (that can be connected to Telemis WHQ).
  
• On-line system scalability analysis.
  

TM-Medical v.3.50
New features

• Improved conviviality through new Graphical User Interface.
  
  
• MPR viewer (for PETSCAN, CT, MR) including MIP (maximal intensity projection), rotation, coronal/sagittal interpolation.
  
  
• Exam preview available in browser before download.
  
  
• Improved security (HIPAA standard compliant).
  
  
• Multi-lingual software & user guide.
  
  
• Advanced multi-criteria search.
  
  
• New drawing tools (freehand line, text, angle between line, perpendicular line).
  
  
• Drawing tools shared during interactive sessions.
  
  
• DICOM Query/Retrieve.
  
  
• 2-level hierarchical storage management
  
  
• Export/BURN layers (drawings, measurements) into standard image format or DICOM.
  
  
• Print viewer, print preview and print study options.
  
  
• Manual & Automatic XML+JPEG exportation.
  
  

FDA & CE MARK

On November 29th 2000, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) granted Telemis the authorization to market Telemis-Medical in the U.S.A.

Telemis had already received the EC MARK on the 31st of July 2000 to market Telemis-Medical in Europe

TM-Medical v.3.40
New features

• Generic HL7/ASCII EPR (Electronic Patient) Interface that makes it possible for Telemis image documents to be viewed through EPR application (This feature needs specific integration for each project).
  
  
• Automatic Upgrade System that allows to spread new features to all users of TM-Reception, TM-Home & TM-Acquisition inside or outside the hospital.
  
  
• New SQL Database Engine that allows extended scalability and faster search results.
  
  
• DICOM Export Function on TM-Reception & TM-Home.
  
  
• DICOM 24 bit color image import function.

TM-Medical v.3.30
New features

Lossless multiresolution compression

• Images composed into multiple quality-resolution levels.
  
• First resolution available within a few seconds.
  
• Progressive additional resolution download.
  
• Up to the full quality.

Cine viewer

• animation capabilities on a zoomed part of a study, on a subset of the examination.
  
• intuitive and precise frame rate.
  
• suitable for a cardiological use and for the diagnosic of angiography and fluoroscopy studies.