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CAPTUS 3000 ® Count on Capintec with the Thyroid Uptake and Well System Kodak Directview DR 7500 from Carestream Health in one of the clinic’s eight exam rooms with both a wall stand and table. Providing 37 physicians and 20 mid-level providers with services in a timely manner can be challenging with such high throughput. Since installing the DR 7500, Supervisor Cindy Redmond (RT) reports seeing improved image quality and reduced patient wait times. “Specialists are able to stay on schedule even during peak periods,” she notes. For example, if a tech is taking four views of the knee, using CR, it takes approximately one minute per cassette for the image to process. “So you are talking at least four, five or six minutes total compared to taking an image in seven to 10 seconds with DR,” Redmond says. For axillary shoulder images, instead of the patient lying on the table and holding the cassette, the wall bucky is put in the horizontal position and the patient’s arm is stretched over the top. “You can see the improved image quality in the tubercular patterns when doing extremity work just from the shoulder and knees, which are the high volume we do here,” she says. Techs wait to use the room simply because of the efficiency compared to CR. “The acquisition speed, high-quality images and auto-centering capability all free up time to spend with the patient—this is the room of choice,” Redmond notes. Sarasota Orthopedic Associates in Sarasota, Fla., went directly from film to DR, choosing IDC’s 2200 dual-detector X-Series and the 1590 X-Series systems. “We needed assurance that image quality would meet our needs,” says Administrator Joyce Sewall. Since four physicians joined the practice, annual imaging procedure volume increased from 3,600 to 5,600. Because of the increased volume, they knew CR would not meet their needs. X-ray Technologist Donna Hall says it was more advantageous to go with DR because it eliminated the use of cassettes all together. “We are able to view the image in 3 to 5 seconds and make any adjustments, if needed, immediately,” Hall says. “To have images produced without any down time is a huge deal with the high volume of patients we see daily.” While they have not yet met their return on investment, they will, Sewall says. Paying for a service contract and the cost of film during the transition has been the obstacle to achieving this. “We projected a savings of approximately $8,200 a month and we will definitely clear that,” she says. Captus ® 3000 The Captus® 3000 comes Displaying the equipped with a “Quick Start Quick Start-Up Up” feature that walks the Screen user through all program setup functions. The feature will have you performing patient studies in no time! It also serves as a training tool for additional users, while providing fast, dedicated modules for Thyroid Uptake, Wipe Tests, Schilling Test, Blood Volume, RBC Survival and Bio-Assay. Cap-DICOM Software ® Capintec is proud to announce a new software application for its Captus ® 3000 Thyroid Uptake System designed to help meet the needs of our customers working in a digital reporting environment Cap-DICOM™ adds DICOM modality worklist and DICOM export to the Captus® 3000. This solution allows patient information and demographics to be pulled from the Radiology Information System (RIS) or Hospital Information System (HIS), thus, reducing errors and time associated with the manual input of patient information. Cap-DICOM™ creates a DICOM secondary capture image from information generated during the uptake procedure. The software exports the DICOM image files to a destination DICOM C-Store provider specified by the user. This destination may be a nuclear medicine workstation or PACS. To learn more about the Captus ® 3000 Thyroid Uptake System, Cap-DICOM ™ Software and many other great Capintec products, contact a Capintec representative at 201-825-9500 or toll free at 800-631-3826. poised for growth According to market research firm Global Industry Analysts, the world DR market is expected to reach $844.2 million by 2010, growing at a CAGR of 6.88 percent from 2011 to 2015. Fueling this growth is a 50 to 80 percent reduction in patient exposure to radiation, increased patient throughputs, flexibility in image manipulation and accurate image capture. One thing remains clear—DR continues to dominate as a standard of care in health imaging as adoption and utilization increase globally. HealthImaging.com Capintec, Inc. 201.825.9500• 800.631.3826 www.capintec.com September 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 23 http://www.capintec.com http://www.capintec.com http://HealthImaging.com

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