A hospital at the forefront of technology in Normandy.

The "Centre Hospitalier Robert Bisson" in Lisieux is located in the lower part of Normandy in France. It has a total capacity of 700 beds. Its radiology department recently took the last steps into the digital world by now featuring an image production standardized on the DICOM 3.0 ("Digital Image and COmmunication in Medicine"). The image production includes a brand new multi-detector CT scanner from Siemens, various echography equipments as well as the well-known phosphor plate system (CR) from Fuji Medical.

The hospital also chose for digital management and distribution of images to its clinical services and to the various consultation areas of its specialists. The choice was made for the Telemis-Medical PACS represented by Electrom in France.

Today the clinicians are perfectly able to view their imaging results on screen while using the existing infrastructure in terms of PC's and network. It is interesting to note that the network is quite similar to what one could find in other hospitals as it features 100 Mbps inside the medical imaging department and 10 Mbps elsewhere.

The imaging department of the hospital also made a clear choice to see the PACS integrated with their choice of RIS (Radiology Information System) product called "Xplore" and made by the EDL company. The radiologists' workstations are equipped with both software packages from Telemis and EDL. This allows for a radiologist to view images on the TM-ReceptionHE (PACS workstation) and, from there, call the patient history files in the RIS at a simple mouse click.