IMPAC’s MOSAIQ™ Oncology PACS helps the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mannheim Medical Center, University of Heidelberg, to achieve its goal of becoming Filmless and Paperless
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Mannheim Medical Center implements IMPAC’s new oncology-specific PACS to improve technology and workflow management
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, March 20, 2007 – IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. (IMPAC), an Elekta company and leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions for oncology care, announces the clinical implementation of MOSAIQ™ Oncology PACS at the Mannheim Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology, in Mannheim, Germany. The Mannheim Medical Center is using IMPAC’s oncology-specific Picture Archiving and Communication System to manage and archive data and images from a broad range of treatment planning systems and imaging devices. The newly released MOSAIQ Oncology PACS offers the department the necessary tools and technology to accomplish its objectives of electronically managing large data sets, department wide access to archived data, and achieve full integration with the proven MOSAIQ™ workflow.
“We are very pleased with MOSAIQ Oncology PACS and are excited to start working with it. The installation went very smoothly and the system is very easy to administer” claim Volker Steil, Chief Medical Physicist and Frank Lohr, M.D., Vice Chairman at the Mannheim Department. “Our first goal is to establish an archiving solution for all three of our treatment planning systems and then to manage all of our IGRT planar and volumetric datasets, including cone-beam and conventional computed tomography. MOSAIQ Oncology PACS enables us to easily transport plans and images to a central storage device eliminating the need for individual database and imaging workstation backups”.
MOSAIQ Oncology PACS is designed to manage the increasing volumes of large data sets in radiotherapy and to provide seamless integration with MOSAIQ image-enabled EMR (Electronic Medical Record). As a result, radiation oncology departments may now archive, retrieve and manage information necessary to support advanced IGRT techniques within the context of individual patient charts.
General radiology PACS are not designed to integrate with oncology EMRs and are therefore not suited to complement the workflow within a radiation oncology department. However, MOSAIQ Oncology PACS is inherently linked to MOSAIQ EMR allowing access to the patient’s archived plans, images and supporting documentation in DICOM and non-DICOM formats. As a vendor-independent solution, MOSAIQ Oncology PACS supports the DICOM, DICOM RT and HL7 standards and can interface to a wide range of imaging and treatment planning systems and other PACS” stated Sue Reilly, product manager at IMPAC.
Department Head, Professor Frederik Wenz, M.D stated, “Radiation Oncology at Mannheim Medical Center chose MOSAIQ Oncology PACS because it is the first and only solution in the market that is supporting RO workflow and charting while also accommodating our existing equipment configuration.”
“We are delighted that Mannheim Medical Center has implemented MOSAIQ and MOSAIQ Oncology PACS,” stated James Hoey, President and CEO of IMPAC. “The success of this implementation demonstrates IMPAC’s singular focus and unique understanding of oncology-related workflow and the importance of full functionality and complete integration especially in a mixed planning and delivery environment. We encourage our users to continue taking advantage of MOSAIQ Oncology PACS as the solution to an increasing need for the storage and management of DICOM, DICOM RT and non-DICOM data sets associated with radiation oncology.”
Dr. Frank Lohr will give presentations about Mannheim Medical Center’s technology advancements, including MOSAIQ Oncology PACS, at the Mannheim and Leverkusen symposia in Germany on April 19th and 20th respectively. Additionally, Dr. Lohr will present at the Italian symposia in Verona, Italy planned for May. Further information about MOSAIQ Oncology PACS is available at www.impac.com/mosaiqoncologypacs.
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