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Hospital Post Europe 04/08
250 participants are expected for the 20 th
International Conference of the Society for
Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT)
in Vienna, Austria. From 28 to 30 August,
more than 115 presentations are scheduled
either as oral or poster presentations.
Among others, topics for this year’s
event include: Tumor Ablation and Interventional
Oncology, Endoluminal Surgery
NOTES and NOSCAR, Surgical Manipulators
and Image-guided Robotics, Hybrid
OR, Work Flow and Systems Integration,
Cooperation – Image Data Archiving
Hospitals have to keep digital medical
documents audit-proof, investing a lot of
material and staff capacity. German Telekom
subsidiary T-Systems – together with
PACS vendor Visus – now offers a solution
relieving hospitals of installation, maintenance
and services for the necessary systems
– in line with the principle of „Software
as a Service“. Customers are able to
rent services on a flexible basis. They will
pay per examination or per data unit (e.g.
Gigabyte) or they simply pay a fixed price
for each year of archiving. So they do not
have to invest in their own hardware and
software. This solution is already successful
in the market.
www.visus-tt.com
www.t-systems.de
Setting ICT Trends for Europe
Top Modern Technology für Norwegian
Hospitals: Hewlett Packard inaugurated,
last June, a Centre of Excellence for
Health Technology. At this Centre, as well
as at the university hospitals of Oslo and
Trondheim, care providers from all over
Europe will be able to scrutinize the potentials
of fully digitized hospital. Future,
broader perspectives include the virtual
hospital aimed at connecting with patients
outside the hospital, through telemedicine
and monitoring.
The Centre of Excellence is laid out
like a small hospital – with a patient
room as well as a ward and exam room.
These premises serve to present a multitude
of ICT solutions, e.g. integrated
PACS and RIS, locating and identification
services, alarm and access systems,
patient telephony and TV. At the same
time, the Centre is to help foster the research
into, and development as well as
trialling of ICT in healthcare. HP has collaborated,
in setting up the Centre, with
renowned companies such as Microsoft,
Cardiac, Cisco, and Telenor – the leading
Norwegian telco.
Many of the solutions demonstrated
are already in use in the university hospitals
of Trondheim (St. Olav’s) and Oslo.
There, the relocation into the fully digitized
Nye Ahus (New Akershus University
Hospital) in Oslo will be finished by October.
All 970 beds will be equipped with
patient terminals; there will be 3,200
phones in a wireless network as well as a
very modern alarm system.
Dr. Jörg Raach
Nanotechnology and Microsystems in
Medicine, New Instruments and New Materials,
Rapid Prototyping in Medicine,
MEdIcAL tEcHnoLoGY 17
SMIT 2008 In Vienna
FUJIFILM
MEDICAL
IMAGING
e-Health, MRI Safety, Navigation and Augmented
Reality, Molecular Imaging and
Targeted Drug Delivery, and Model based
A D V E R T O R I A L
Therapy. These topics will be presented by
an international forum of outstanding endoscopic
surgeons, interventional radiologists,
biomedical engineers, and industrial
instrument manufacturers. Furthermore,
conference-goers are invited to join workshops
on Radiofrequency Ablation (handson),
Embolic Particles, and Robot-Assisted
Interventions (hands-on).
SMIT 2008 “offers an outstanding platform
to stimulate discussions, and sharing
ideas with other attendees”.
www.smit2008.com
Enhancing the Quality of Life of People world-wide
Innovative Medical Systems:
Fujifilm is a market leader in developing
innovative, technically advanced medical
imaging systems including its highly successful
computed radiography (CR) and digital
radiography (DR) products.
In addition the company is at the forefront
of harnessing the growth of IT in medical
facilities with SYNAPSE®, its picture archiving
and communication systems (PACS),
leading the way.
Similarly, Fujifilm is proud to announce it is
advancing with moves to create comprehensive
healthcare by directly aligning the field of
diagnosis with preventative and pharmaceutical
treatments.
Finally, a major breakthrough in DR is Fujifilm’s
revolutionary MAMMO System
AMULET, a completely new and innovative
x-ray detector for mammography.
The new mammo DR system
Fujifilm has developed a completely new
kind of x-ray detector that represents a
breakthrough for upcoming applications in
digital mammography.
World’s best resolution for detectors of
its kind
The detector uses two layers of amorphous
selenium and, at 50 µm pixels,
offers the world’s best resolution in
detectors of its kind. A sharper picture
and improved signal/noise ratio result,
making for significantly enhanced imaging
quality in breast cancer diagnostics.
President Dr. Joachim
Kettenbach (far left,
Medical University
of Vienna, Austria)
and Co-President
Dr. Gernot Kronreif
(Profactor Research
and Solutions) are
looking forward to
SMIT 2008.
High pixel density and improved
signal/noise ratio
The x-rays are converted into electric signals
in the first layer, and are then
detected in the second layer with the
help of an optical switch and presented
as an image. The procedure reduces the
amount of time needed for erasing and
re-exposing the detector, accelerating the
overall exam workflow.
Conference Venue
university vienna · universitätscampus
“Altes AKH“
Hof 2, Hörsaalzentrum · spitalgasse
2 · 1090 vienna
Austria
Optical Switch – as new development
New procedure for selenium vacuum
deposition technology generates extremely
pure selenium layers with an even
thickness across each layer. Light is used
as a switch for detecting electric signals.
The data is thus read out from the detector
directly, without first being converted.
It enables the operator to lower the radiation
dose while improving diagnostics
and the efficiency of the examination.
Specifications
– High DQE, high MTF
– Optimised compression feature
– More convenience and safety for
the patient
– Detector method:
a-Se with optical switch
– Exposure interval: approx. 20 s
– Pixel size: 50 µm
– Bit depth: 14 bit
– Image display after: approx. 10 s
FUJIFILM Europe GmbH, Heesenstrasse 31
D-40549 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel: +49 211 5089 100
www.fujifilm.eu