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offering additional value through supplemental and complementary content. According to Chuck Newbry, PACS administrator for Legacy Health System in Portland, Ore., the SmartLine of CD and DVD products from DatCard provides and empowers patients with customizable, educational information to accompany studies and reports. The company is trying to provide more customer-centric applications, integrating their software with hardware platforms from other vendors like Rimage, to provide an overall solution. He says that Meridian Park Hospital Breast Health Center in Tualatin, Oregon, is using MammoSmart, which includes digital mammography images and the diagnostic report, medical history and insurance information on each patient disc. Customizable educational content can include a glossary of terms, answers to frequently asked questions, live video capture as well as self-breast/family healthcare history for “high risk” patients, or additional educational information that covers the complete spectrum of mammography and complementary services. “If a simple, cost-effective educational resource as the MammoSmart CD will help to eliminate any personal suffering by providing additional information and resources to the patient, to share with loved ones if desired, it is a step to success,” Newbry says. An additional use of the MammoSmart CD is to carry forward imaging records of the patient. “Our CD contains the diagnostic quality, lossless images, as acquired during the study. These can be viewed as comparisons, and imported if desired, by the next physician should the patient move or go to a different breast center for later exams,” he adds. Several years of studies can be placed on a CD, and many years can be placed on a DVD and images can be imported from the CD or DVD back into any PACS. “It really empowers the patient to help himself or herself a little,” Newbry says. Meridian Park gives them to every patient after their exam. “More information it is better to try and keep things consistent,” he adds. Within the next three to five years, Newbry forecasts that vendors more and more will be finding ways to put medical records into the hands of the patient, and physicians, with additional educational information to complement their care. “Anything to get cost-effective data in front of the practicing physician so he or she can help the patient,” he concludes. I’m Brian Cherundolo, and I provide superior solutions for you. “The success of each individual PET Center is not achieved by the same means. As a part of the PETLinQTM Solutions Team, I work directly with our customers to implement a customized, clinical education program that is designed to improve the quality of reporting, increase referrals and build PET Centers of Excellence.” Brian Cherundolo IBA Molecular Clinical PET Specialist Dulles, VA As the #1 PET radiopharmaceutical provider worldwide, we are excited to discuss the opportunity to deliver FDG and CardioGen®-82, as well as research isotopes and PETLinQTM growth solutions to your PET Imaging center. SUPERIOR SERVICE SUPERIOR SOLUTIONS SUPERIOR SCIENCE www.iba-molecular.com/superior Healthimaging.com october 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 35 http://www.iba-molecular.com/superior http://www.iba-molecular.com/superior http://www.HealthImaging.com

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