PACS APPLIANCE AND WORKSTATION

Large and small institutions have different healthcare system needs. While cost is an issue for both large and small practices, the ability to amortize costs over a larger number of studies is a luxury smaller practices simply do not have. Their operating and system costs must be kept to a minimum.

Smaller practices typically lack extensive IT staff. Their PACS systems must be reliable and easy-to-use; complex systems deployed in larger practices and institutions are simply impractical for the small practice.

In addition, small practices, which are typically privately owned, are highly focused on profitability. As a result, they continually strive to be more efficient in getting the information they need to maintain quality patient care.

Therefore, any PACS system must help reduce costs, decrease staff workload and enhance the reading experience of its medical users.

Until now, the big question was how you could store, distribute, diagnose and share radiographic images with patients and referring professionals 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 PRINCE. PRINCE is a complete PACS and image display solution. 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. This means 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. PRINCE is the answer for a cost-effective, easily maintained PACS for small practices. PRINCE takes all the key elements of large medical PACS solutions and packages them in a rational size for small 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 PRINCE provides:

Image Gateway - The central point for the receipt and distribution of all of your digital images. You can connect multiple devices to PRINCE (modalities, display stations, etc.).

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

Backup - A method of backing up the same images that are stored in the on-line hard drive. PRINCE is delivered with a removable hard drive backup system. It runs automatically.

CD Burning - An automatic method to create and label CD's with patients’ images for distribution to patients or other medical professionals. These CD's have an advanced viewing program that self-starts when the CD is inserted into a Windows based PC.

Communications - Two licenses for remote viewing within your facility (LAN). This allows you to use inexpensive PC's or WIFI-enabled tablet PC's to display images in your patient exam rooms.

Workstation A diagnostic quality workstation for your interpretation work. Our PRINCE workstation software includes the imaging tools you need to get the most out of your images (window, level, zoom, pan, annotation, measure length, angle, invert, rotate and more).

Connectivity - to your CR and/or DR imaging systems.