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Visbion partners with Medical Plus
Visbion’s image management solutions are being installed throughout South East Asia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates due to a highly successful partnership with Medical Plus.
Medical Plus Pte Ltd is a well established supplier of medical and biomedical equipment. The company’s corporate headquarters is located in Singapore but in order to develop a regional presence, affiliated organizations have been set up in S.E.A as well as Australia/NZ, and the Middle East. The partnership enables Medical Plus to offer Visbion’s product range in both the healthcare and veterinary markets.
Small animal and equine veterinary practices throughout Australia have been introduced to Visbion’s innovative Image Archive and Image Book solutions. In Al Ain, The Camel Hospital is making use of Visbion’s solutions to manage their digital images and keep their racing camels on top form. Gasing Vet in Kuala Lumpar, now uses Visbion’s flexible web based solution to allow Radiologist, Dr Heng, to log in from the USA and report on MRI studies.
Medical Plus is also starting to offer Visbion’s solutions to hospitals and private clinics in South East Asia and the Novena Heart cardiology centre in Singapore is currently trialing the Visbion imaging and archiving solutions.
Ian Lonslow, Visbion’s Professional Services Manager said “We are delighted that Medical Plus is representing our products. Their professional approach, dedication and commitment to offering first class customer service will create great synergies for both companies”
Visbion Image Cube installed in over 50 mobile scanning units
Visbion has announced that it is providing Alliance Medical with its innovative Image Cube technology. The project encompasses over 50 mobile scanning trucks as well as a number of static sites.
Visbion Image Cube is a small appliance that has been installed on each mobile scanning unit, allowing any truck to easily connect with any hospital RIS\PACS for rapid and secure transfer of images and modality worklists. The ability to connect any truck to any hospital system without reconfiguration of the scanner has enabled Alliance Medical to be much more flexible and efficient in their logistics.
Images are received from any standard modality in Dicom 3.0 format. The Image Cube then caches those images, prior to compressing them in a lossless fashion, and transmitting them in secure encrypted format to their destination, even handling multiple destinations simultaneously. In addition, the Image Cube can receive and forward Dicom modality worklist queries to enable the complete end-to-end workflow to be implemented.
Stefan Claesen, Visbion’s CEO said “Image Cube offers Alliance a more efficient workflow with significant time savings both for the Radiographers on the scanning trucks and the hospital PACS Managers. It totally eliminates the need to produce CDs and then manually load them into PACS.”
Chris Cook, Alliance Medical’s IT Director commented “Visbion has been an exciting and innovative company to work with. We have found the entire team to be flexible in their approach and extremely responsive to our very specific needs.”
Visbion and Hitachi Data Systems Collaborate
Visbion has today announced that it will be partnering with Hitachi Data Systems to provide a series of DICOM interfaces for Hitachi disk storage solutions.
The Partnership will allow hospitals to store all types of images directly into the Hitachi disk systems; HCP, HNAS, AMS and USP. It will also enable query and retrieval of those images, either direct to any workstation or to any PACS system.
As well as working with PACS systems from all vendors, Hitachi and Visbion offers a wide support for DICOM objects from all departments, including Radiology, Cardiology, Mammography, Ophthalmology and Medical Illustration.
Stefan Claesen, Visbion’s CEO said “We are delighted to be working with Hitachi Data Systems. Visbion’s solutions are modality independent and highly scalable, and a perfect fit for this type of application.”
“As one of our trusted partners within the healthcare sector, we look forward to continuing our work with Visbion and the significant opportunities which the partnership will bring to our customers,” said Mark Clark, EMEA Director for E-Health, Hitachi Data Systems. “Together with Visbion, we will offer healthcare professionals faster and more efficient access to stored information, reducing time – and consequently resources – spent on retrieving patient data. In an industry where decision-making time can literally be life-or-death, this development can only work to improve the standards of patient care and help to make IT systems smarter, faster and more effective. ”
