Healthcare News

Visbion Partners with Medray in Ireland

Visbion, the supplier of world class image archive and display solutions has today announced that Medray Imaging Systems will act as a reseller for the company’s products in the healthcare and veterinary markets in Ireland.

Based in Dublin, Medray has been established for almost 30 years and has an impressive core customer base, including all of Ireland's public and private hospitals.

Stefan Claesen, Visbion’s CEO said “Medray has an excellent reputation for delivering first class customer service, something which Visbion is also committed to providing. We look forward to a successful partnership”

Aidan O’Reilly, Medray’s M.D. added “Visbion’s unique IT solutions provide us with a range of products that will set us apart from other PACS vendors, in offering the Irish healthcare sector real cost and efficiency benefits”.

Visbion ChiroPACS Chosen by University of Glamorgan

Visbion’s leading edge ChiroPACS System and diagnostic workstations have been installed at Welsh Institute of Chiropractic, University of Glamorgan
 
Welsh Institute of Chiropractic is a public teaching clinic designed to provide excellent quality but affordable chiropractic care to the community and offer a valuable, quality learning environment for the student clinician as part of their Masters of Chiropractic undergraduate degree. Investing in the latest technology is key in providing such a service.

PLH Medical Ltd, Visbion’s Chiropractic sales partner supplied ChiroPACS, which has been connected to their Agfa CR system, allowing staff and students to view and manipulate patient images throughout the University. Visbion’s Image Web solution allows quick and easy access to diagnostic quality images via a standard web browser on any networked PC. Images can also be viewed on Visbion’s high resolution diagnostic workstations.

Dr Kristin Grace, Senior Lecturer Radiology at Welsh Institute said “Our radiographers, Clinic managers, Clinic tutors and Student clinicians have all commented on the consistency of image quality, accessibility and rapid report time.”

“We are now completely filmless, with all the many benefits that delivers” continued Dr Grace, “Not only can we provide a state of the art service for our patients, we can also make that service available to local Chiropractic facilities.”

Visbion IPACS Used to Help Identify Preserved Brain

Whilst washing a skull from recent excavations at Heslington in York, Rachel Cubitt, Finds Officer with the York Archaeological Trust felt something move inside and looked though the hole in the base of the skull. To her surprise she saw a yellowy object inside and her first reaction was to wonder if it could be a brain.

Rachel called her former lecturer, Dr Sonia O’Connor at Bradford University. Using endoscopy and radiography to gain images of the lumps inside the skull, Dr O’Connor was then able to clearly view the images on Visbion’s high resolution digital workstation. Microscopic examination of a sample of the material further confirmed that it was indeed the shrunken remains of the brain.

Dr O'Connor commented 'We are so lucky that at the time when Rachel called we were testing a new radiography system. Using the Visbion workstation, we were able to view the most wonderfully detailed images of the brain within seconds.'

Stefan Claesen, Visbion’s CEO said “We are delighted that our software is enabling the archaeologists to see more detail than ever before and we are sure that digital imaging will play an increasing role in archaeology in the future.”

Sonia has brought together a team of archaeological scientists from Bradford and other universities to study the remains and to find out just why brains can sometimes survive when no other soft tissues are preserved in the burial.

Mark O'Herlihy appointed as Radiology Sales Manager

Visbion, the supplier of world class image archive and display solutions for medical imaging is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark O’Herlihy as Radiology Sales Manager.

Mark comes with extensive clinical experience having worked as a Diagnostic Radiographer for over 12 years. Moving into the IT Healthcare Market, he was part of the Radiology PACS implementation team for the National Programme for Information Technology. More recently, Mark was responsible for the Cardiology PACS business for Agfa Healthcare in the UK & Ireland.

Stefan Claesen, CEO, Visbion said “Mark has a strong industry background, in-depth knowledge of IT solutions and is highly capable in project management. We are delighted that he will use this expertise to build sales and market presence for Visbion”

“I have been impressed with Visbion’s products which are ultimately flexible and can be tailored to individual projects”, said Mark. “Focusing on specific customer needs to deliver the very best solution will be my main objective”

Visbion signs deal with Trans Global Radiology

Visbion, the supplier of world class image archive and display solutions for medical imaging has today announced the signing of a 5 year deal to provide image transfer, archiving and display technology for Trans Global Radiology, a UK based image interpretation service.

TGR will utilise Visbion’s web-based and fully hosted Image World solution to facilitate their worldwide teleradiology service. The system utilises ground-breaking Image Cube technology. The Image Cube receives images via standard DICOM protocol, compresses and encrypts the images and securely sends them across to Image World data centres for display and reporting. 

Stefan Claesen, Visbion’s CEO said “Deployment of our proven Image Cube technology, linked to our dual hosted data centres is the ideal solution for TGR’s first class service. The hosted platform allows the TGR service to scale without the need to continually invest in new hardware and the Image Cube technology enables new sites to be brought online rapidly and efficiently.”

“We are delighted with the signing of the deal. We are confident that Visbion’s extensive experience in linking up imaging devices and facilities along with TGR’s expertise in medical image interpretation will create great synergies for both”, commented Shehla Ihsan, CEO at TGR “Having a fully web-based solution gives us ultimate flexibility and security for providing our services.”