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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Interoperability and consolidation compose the"simple vision" of the new picture achiving and communications systemCarestream Health is marketing at the World of Health IT.
Not yet available to healthcare organizations, the company'sSuperPACS will be released in the second quarter of 2009, officialsannounced.
Christophe Chapot, Carestream's regional business manager of NorthEurope HealthCare Information Systems, said the core concept drivingSuperPACS development was consolidation.
"Whether you have private organizations consolidating,hospitals consolidating with other organizations... these multipleentities can run different systems, so with SuperPACS we're workingacross multiple platforms," Chapot said.
SuperPACS can work on top of existing IT systems and canoperate alongside other radiology solutions, but can function as aPACS/RIS suite. "The one thing I'm not happy about is that the name hasonly 'PACS' in it," Chapot joked. "It's also a radiology informationsystem (RIS)," he clarified. The level of investment needed toimplement SuperPACS will be "very reasonable," according to Chapot.
Some of Carestream's current provider implementations served asstages for the new features developed for SuperPACS. Chapot pointed toCarestream's work within NHS Scotland as an example of a project inwhich the company expanded its PACS/RIS functionalities to includewider interoperability.
