An In-House Solution For Bone Density Testing

Last Updated on Friday, 19 November 2010 11:55 Written by admin Tuesday, 13 October 2009 12:48

There is a new bone densitometer from Alara, Inc. available from Dicom Solutions. This device offers an in-house solution for bone density testing. Prior to this, patients who needed bone density testing had to have the test performed in the imaging center of a hospital, which had the effect of slowing down the test results as well as making it less convenient for patients.

The new bone densitometer, called MetriScan, can identify osteoporosis, monitor patients’ response to osteoporosis treatment as well as test for their risk for fractures. The bone densitometer also allows physicians, after reviewing patients’ personal and family medical history, to perform bone density tests or bone mass measurements in-house.

Key features of the MetriScan bone densitometer include very short processing time for test results. Getting test results takes only one minute, and if you wish to print out the results, one additional minute is all it takes. The test itself is performed by the bone densitometer in less than one second.

Other features include automatic calibration checks for a very low clinical precision error rate. Patients require no preparation for the test and the test itself is painless. Radiation levels for the test are lower than five percent of that used in acquiring a dental x-ray.

The most common uses for the bone densitometer are for small or mid-sized medical facilities, especially those with primary care physicians. Patient care improves because at-risk patients can be tested for bone mineral density more often as a part of their routine examinations, and the testing is covered by Medicare for senior patients.

Understanding The TIMS DICOM Gateway Software

Last Updated on Friday, 19 November 2010 11:46 Written by admin Friday, 9 October 2009 12:47

Many medical facilities face this dilemma: you know that in order to keep pace with larger hospitals and improve workflow, you need to make the switch to digital medical imaging, but to switch over all of your equipment is tremendously expensive, often prohibitively so for a small to mid-sized medical office. Instead, there is a cost-effective solution for smaller medical facilities, and that is the TIMS DICOM system. The TIMS DICOM system extends the lives of your current medical devices.

The TIMS DICOM system is a software and hardware system that allows for the conversion of non-Dicom equipment to dicom modality. The digital medical images that can be created via the TIMS DICOM allows you to utilize them with a PACS system, as well as burning the images to CD or DVD, and it lets you print the digital images to paper or film.

Hospitals and medical facilities can also purchase the Dicom gateway software by itself. This software allows you to convert your digital medical images to dicom images. The software lets you print the images or save the images to disc, and it allows you to receive dicom images from other dicom-based equipment. The Dicom gateway TIMS software does not need the TIMS hardware to function, and in this way you can save money by only purchasing what you need. By adding the TIMS hardware component to the system, you will also be able to connect to non-dicom modalities to acquire medical images.

The entire TIMS DICOM system suite saves your medical facility mone