One Solution. One Workflow. One Desktop.

HBO Middle East has teamed up with Merge Healthcare to deliver Radiologists, Technologists and Administrators a cost effective solution for their mission-critical business and clinical tools — all integrated into a simpler, faster, unified desktop.

The HBO Merge RIS/PACS provides advanced clinical features including:

3D/4D Review™

Advanced Visualization 3D/4D Review™ provides comprehensive visualization for rapid and efficient everyday clinical workflow along with a real-time editing tool in combination with standard visualization tools such as MIP, MinIP and 3D VRT. Users can now visualize the removal of overlying structures on-the-fly.

AccuEdit

• Allows you to edit, smooth and/or resample datasets.
• With AccuEdit, you can edit away unwanted tissue structure before manipulating the medical data with other applications.
• Single image editing, slab editing and barrel volume editing are all included.

AccuAnalyzer

• Allows you to calculate a 2D histogram of datasets
• AccuAnalyzer User Guide allows the user to take full advantage of AccuAnalyzer advanced features

AccuStitch™

AccuStitch™ is one of the advanced visualization tools for clinical depth in the PACS environment.  AccuStitch™ is an advanced image stitching and angle measurement application for today’s digital radiography. It allows the user to stitch thoracic and lumbar films and compute Cobb angle measurements. Images are acquired with any DICOM 3.0 compliant digital radiography system and sent to a standard PC where they are loaded into the AccuStitch program. The user may choose any of the three registration methods to identify specific fiducial points on each image. Once the images have been stitched, validation tools allow the user to see misregistration in the overlapped images.

Baby Explorer™

Baby Explorer™ is a 3D fetal imaging software-only solution that allows its users to easily and quickly generate 3D fetal views months before the baby is born. With a minimal amount of training, the Technologist can quickly generate an image of the baby’s facial features and print it to a Microsoft Windows printer. The image can also be saved as a JPEG, BMP, or AVI file.

With its sophisticated volume rendering capabilities, Baby Explorer™ enables the anatomical features of the baby to be seen. Ultrasound 3D neonatal studies are used to ensure the proper growth of the fetus and to investigate cleft palette and other gross abnormalities. The Baby Explorer software runs on standard PC hardware and acquires images from any ultrasound scanner.

CalScore®

CalScore® is an advanced visualization tool which uses CT images for quantifying the amount of calcium in coronary arteries and then automatically reporting the findings in a customizable report. Individual Score reports are based on the industry-standard Agatston databases as well as Volume score databases. Basic features include user-definable color scheme, report generation, and Hounsfield threshold. CalScore can be used with EBCT and helical scanners, as well as with prospective and retrospective gating.

 

I-Conference™

I-Conference is a hospital image presentation application specifically adapted to multi-disciplinary conferences and the clinical presentation of images and image related information.

Multi-disciplinary conferences between cardiologists, radiologists, surgeons, and referring physicians require concise presentations of clinical data and images which is a tedious and time-consuming process that requires significant time. With I-Conference, preparation time is drastically reduced because images and image related information from various media can be pre-selected and easily combined to produce an optimized clinical presentation. This allows the presenter to focus solely on the conference proceeding rather than on the equipment or the image selection.

I-Conference Screen Capture

I-Conference provides physicians with a tailored presentation that allows pre-selected images from all imaging modalities and non-DICOM standard documents, including QuickTime and Adobe to be easily tagged and edited. This gives physicians the same productivity in medicine that Microsoft® PowerPoint™ has brought to business. Support is provided for various formats including DICOM, AVI, DOC, XLS, PPT and PDF for presentation of images, loops, reports, and waveforms (EKGs).

Presentation Creation

• Easy authoring mode
• Authoring by multiple users
• Easy-to-use DICOM viewer that uses simple tools
• Configurable DICOM nodes

I-Conference Screen Capture

HTML Reporting Generates a report that can be used for patient education and treatment planning.

• Customizable reports
• You can add text comments to studies as HTML files
• You can include the 2D cine of images as AVI files and 3D volume rendered images as JPEG images

Presentation Export

• You can export a presentation to CD or DVD
• You can take the exported presentation to another I-Conference workstation and view the presentation
• Allows you to archive the presentation for future reference

I-ReadMammo™

I-ReadMammo™ is a soft-copy reading workstation designed specifically for the complex breast imaging workflow. With its outstanding image quality, performance and tailored breast imaging workflow, I-ReadMammo enables radiologists to optimize their reading speed to provide high quality patient care.

As a multi-modality, vendor-neutral softcopy review workstation, I-ReadMammo was designed to minimize frustration in your move to digital by eliminating workstation duplication, providing specialized tools similar to those used with film and enabling customization to optimize reading workflow.

IlumiView™

IlumiView™ is an advanced visualization tool.  It is a complete workflow solution that provides a powerful tool for reviewing colon or other luminal studies and reporting the findings.  IlumiView enhances productivity by integrating software tools to visualize the lumen, record findings, and automatically generate a report.

The study can be reviewed working primarily on the 2D images (using the 3D view for problem solving), or the study can be reviewed working primarily from the 3D view, according to the user's preference.

IlumiView's sophisticated yet easy-to-use 3D visualization technology provides physicians the capability to make clinical assessments quickly and easily.

OrthoWorks ProPlanner™

Outside of radiology, medical imaging plays an important role in surgical planning for orthopaedics. Orthopaedic surgeons use medical images to better understand a patient's condition, diagnose their ailment, and plan corrective surgery that often includes prosthetic implants. While yesterday's surgeon planned their procedures using grease pencils, acetate overlays and x-ray films, today's orthopod needs clinical software to access images that are stored on a hospital's Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). To accelerate the time required for surgical planning, software solutions need to provide speed, efficiency and ease-of-use above conventional methods.  With its extensive library of implants and templates, OrthoWorks ProPlanner™ is the perfect tool for accurate and quick planning and templating of orthopaedic surgery.

OrthoWorks Spine Analyzer™

For spine surgeons, chiropractors and radiologists who analyze cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility, alignment, and deformities, standard orthopaedic applications rarely include enough functionality to quickly and efficiently study the spine. As spinal procedures have become increasingly complex the need and demand for advanced analysis tools has grown exponentially. Spine surgeons recognize the benefits of digital imaging and are looking for applications that exploit this new medium. Developed by spine surgeons for spine surgeons, OrthoWorks Spine Analyzer allows healthcare professionals to perform complicated spine analysis in minutes, up to six times faster than current manual methods. Surgeons can perform semi-automatic detection of vertebral geometry with just a few mouse clicks, resulting in instant calculation and graphical display of over 500 parameters for cervical, lumbar, sagittal and postural analysis.

 

PET/CT Workstation™

PET and PET/CT are popular topics of discussion in both nuclear medicine and radiology forums. From imaging previously unknown neurological processes to its impact on oncology, these modalities are causing a stir amongst medical imaging professionals.

As a combined modality PET/CT provides powerful functionality beyond the scope of either PET or CT images alone by allowing healthcare specialists to view both physiological activity in conjunction with anatomical location. As a relatively new modality, many radiology systems and PACS solutions, however, are struggling to adapt this technology. Sadly, many remain totally incompatible, forcing reading physicians to practice on the PET/CT console itself.

Addressing many of the issues surrounding the synthesis of data from PET/CT, we are pleased to provide a software solution which allows PACS integration, while improving workflow, connectivity and efficiencies surrounding this modality.

While some vendors try to make PET/CT seem complicated and overly technical, our PET/CT Workstation has been designed to easily accommodate the standard methods that Radiologists use to read CT datasets.

Following the norm found in PACS, our PET/CT Workstation breaks away from historic methods of showing PET/CT images by providing layouts split across dual monitors in panoramic mode. For efficient study comparison, this method of review allows simultaneous comparison of CT images, PET Corrected, PET Uncorrected, PET/CT Fused Images and MIP, among others. Rigid Registration between images allows simultaneous navigation through all data sets.

Volume Explorer™

Volume Explorer™ is a real-time, 3D rendering and visualization software engine specifically designed for ultrasound. It can be embedded in any Microsoft® Windows® environment at the ultrasound console, review station, or acquisition device.

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