DR will highlight new RIS/PACS integration functionality, and workstation enhancements.
The San Diego-based vendor has integrated new RIS functionality in its PACS offering with RIS Admin workstation. The workstation adds Internet-based scheduling, document scanning, service and ICD-9 diagnostic codes, and practice analysis tools for management reports.
The workstation enables users to examine prior patient records and perform archive retrievals, as well display images, listen to digital voice, or view text dictation along with the HL7 HIS/RIS interface for automated data entry, DR Systems said. RIS Admin workstation will be sold as a hardware platform with a software license, and is scheduled for release in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2004.
In other PACS enhancements, the company has added keyboard shortcuts and access to the RIS scheduling tools to its Catapult technologist Q/A workstation. Information can be stored locally, allowing for emergency backup, according to the vendor.
The firm’s Dominator reading station has been bolstered with improved magnification, flip and crop functions, as well as enhanced comparison modes, document and report display, and interactive 3-D cross-referencing. The company has also improved editing functionality and exam flagging for teaching files, Q/A, research, and other needs.
In other news, DR Systems has added an automatic quick start guide and an optional automated CD burner and label printing system to its Ambassador referring-physician clinical review application. The firm’s Guardian permanent archival storage service will feature integration with EMC’s Centera petabyte content-addressed storage (CAS) system. All PACS enhancements are slated for release in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2004.
