Medical Imaging Innovation Keeps Clinicians in the Picture
A groundbreaking technology that allows medical images to be used anywhere across the healthcare environment has been developed at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH).
JVIEW allows clinicians to view and manipulate nuclear medicine images (for example cancer, cardiac and paediatric images generated following an injection of a radioisotope into a patient) on computers anywhere in the world. This is an important tool in patient care, as it allows the clinician to deliver treatment more effectively and quickly to patients.
The technology was originally developed by Dr Peter Metherall and the Medical Physics Team at STH, in direct response to the needs of the Trust’s clinicians.
Dr Metherall said: “Historically clinicians could only access nuclear medicine images and reports at specific points within the Trust, and so they saw a real opportunity to improve patient care by creating a system like JVIEW.
“Now they can access images and reports at any PC terminal across the Trust and securely outside of the Trust. The software allows different types of information, images and reports to be reviewed remotely which isn’t possible with other imaging software.”
Link Medical, a leading supplier of image processing software for nuclear medicine, has taken a licence to sell and further develop the system. The deal was brokered by Medipex, the NHS Innovation Hub for the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Dr Matthew Westmore, Technical Director of Link Medical, said: “STH has done a fantastic job of developing a system that solves many problems that are currently not being addressed by the government’s national programme for IT, Connecting for Health, as nuclear medicine falls outside the PACS programme.
“As well as being a leading edge technology, this deal is also breaking new ground in the relationship between the NHS and companies like Link Medical. This is a great opportunity for the NHS to benefit widely from the hard work and expertise of its dedicated and world leading scientists.”
For further information visit http://www.medipex.co.uk and http://www.linkmed.co.uk
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