PACS APPLIANCE AND WORKSTATION

Everyone needs a helping hand…that's why we developed PAW.

There's a lot of talk about digital imaging. It's no longer a debate about whether you should move away from film or if the proper digital imaging technology exists, but rather when and how. If you wait, will prices drop significantly? If you wait, will there be a new breakthrough in technology?

On the image capture side, the debate is over. There are two methods (see box on last page) and they both have their pros and cons. There is no question, however, that if you select a quality product, either method will provide fine diagnostic quality images and do so faster and using fewer resources than traditional x-ray film.

Until now the big question was to how you could store, distribute, diagnose and share these images with owners and referring veterinarians in an organized and cost-effective manner. Also important was how such a system could be installed and how personnel could be trained quickly and without major disruption to your practice.

The Answer is PAW™ PAW stands for PACS Appliance and Workstation and it is a product developed by American Medical Sales. PACS (Picture Archive and Communication System) is the universal medical term for the digital network and equipment necessary to make digital imaging work. It is based on the international standard of DICOM. What this means is that if you select solutions that use this standard, you will not be locked into one vendor's solution as your practice grows or changes.
You remain in control.

PAW is the answer for a cost-effective, easily maintained PACS for veterinarians. PAW takes all the key elements of our large medical PACS solutions and packages them in a rational size for veterinary practices.
You need the same functionality of a hospital-based digital network, but not the complexity or the cost.

Here is a list of the key features PAW provides:

Image Gateway - central point for the receipt and distribution of all of your digital images. You can connect up to 10 DICOM compliant devices to PAW (modalities, display stations, etc).

Archive - A highly redundant and safe method for storing your images. PAW can hold the equivalent of 25,000 14”x17” sheets of x-ray film. That's years of storage for a typical small practice.

CD Burner - A manual method to make CD's with client images for distribution to patients and other medical professionals. These CD's have an advanced viewing program that self-starts when the CD is inserted into a PC.

Workstation - Our PAW workstation includes a high resolution color flat panel monitor (medical grade monochrome monitor is available at an additional charge). Our diagnostic software includes all the imaging tools you need. (window, level, zoom, pan, annotation, measure length, angle, Hounsfeld units, invert, rotate and more.)

LAN Viewing - Five software licenses for LAN viewing within your facility. This allows you to use existing PC's or WIFI-enabled tablet PC's to display images in your surgery areas or patient exam rooms.

Backup - Choose between two methods of backing up the same images that are stored in the Archive. You can configure MIDAS with either the included removable hard drive backup system or use our optional off-site storage center (6 months). Both systems can be configured to run automatically.

Connectivity - to CR and/or DR technology.