Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare has shipped the first Centricity SE PACS system to Canada, the company reported at last week's Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) meeting.
Centricity SE was designed for smaller hospitals and imaging centers, and was introduced at last year's RSNA show. All hardware and software are installed in a single cabinet prior to shipment to speed installation.
The system has storage for 300,000 studies, and to save on archiving costs, it uses a storage service provider (SSP) model in which any studies not stored online go to a GE storage center.
In other GE SCAR news, the company highlighted Centricity Business Intelligence Portal as a work-in-progress. The product gives users a range of asset utilization tools for managing their departments, enabling them to view metrics such as number of radiologists with unsigned reports, equipment utilization, and RVUs per modality.
Another GE work-in-progress for SCAR was an image display for surgical applications that mounted a tiny display on a set of glasses worn by the surgeon. The display could enable surgeons to review images during surgery in a hands-free environment, according to the Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based company.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 6, 2005
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