Simplification & streamlining of workflow

Magnum PACS offers a centralised storage solution for studies and reports for all the existing modalities at the hospital. As soon as the images are acquired by the modalities, they are automatically sent to the central server through DICOM 3.0 protocol. The images are archived on the PACS archive and can then be viewed at the radiologist’s workstation for reporting. Caregivers can log onto any computer in the hospital with network/internet access and use the web viewer to review patient studies, thus streamlining workflow and increasing data-sharing.

Anytime, anywhere image access:

Magnum PACS also includes Magnum PACS Lite – a web viewer which allows the radiologist to access diagnostic quality images at the point-of-care as well as through remote access. Magnum PACS Lite is a Rich Internet Application, which requires only a web browser (such as Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera) to view and manipulate diagnostic images.

End-user cost reduction:

Magnum PACS offers a complete digital imaging & storage solutions, thereby significantly reducing not only the use of film but also associated cost such as film handling and chemical cost, that is used in making such films.Magnum PACS is completely platform-independent in terms of the server’s operating system, data base, and hardware. This means it needs only a simple retasking of the hospital’s existing hardware, thereby reducing end-user deployment costs and providing a high degree of deployment flexibility.

A highly secure, certified system:

Magnum PACS is fully HIPPA Compliant and incorporates 128–bit SSL security for data transmission over the internet/intranet, making for a high level of security.

Flexible, structured reporting:

Magnum PACS reduces reporting turnaround time through structured, template-based reporting.

Administrator friendly:

Being a core Web-based application, Magnum PACS allows authorised administrators to make DICOM/HL-7 service configuration changes from anywhere over the web in real time. Configuration parameters can be securely accessed, edited, and monitored over the internet.

Magnum RIS is a web-based application with patient registration features. It enables the user to view all the orders placed by the physician, and schedule orders based on the availability of the Radiology department’s resources. The module also allows comprehensive patient tracking across the hospital enterprise, film folder tracking and scheduling of orders on an ad-hoc basis.

Some of Magnum RIS’s salient features are:

• Patient registration
• Patient information reconciliation
• Patient tracking
• Intuitive workflow-based scheduling

Magnum PACS’s DICOM image server is an advanced DICOM server with full DICOM functionality. It offers DICOM connectivity to all the modalities involved. The administrator can configure DICOM services at run time from anywhere and at any time.

Magnum PACS DICOM server is a standalone DICOM server which offers simultaneous connectivity to multiple modalities. Any number of modalities can be configured to store images and get storage commitment. It is a scalable and deployment-flexible server with application, web and image storage capabilities, which can be deployed on both single and cluster hardware. All images are made online.

Service configuration can be done through an intuitive UI in compliance with the highest industry standards and certifications, such as Schaefer.

Some of the functionalities offered by Magnum PACS are:

• DICOM 3.0 compatible
• Sending and receiving of image studies and single images from any number of DICOM compatible modalities
• Requesting (Query/Retrieve) patient data at patient and study level from DICOM archives
• Additional requesting (Query/Retrieve) of patient data at a study/series & image level
• Operation via intuitive function symbols
• DICOM Modality Worklist Service
• DICOM Modality Performed Procedure Step Service
• DICOM Storage Service
• DICOM Storage Commitment Service
• DICOM Verification Service
• DICOM IAN (Instance Availability Notification)
• DICOM Media Creation
• Configuration as a Cluster Server
• Rich UI Monitoring Console
• Patient/Image Explorer
• Study Migration Service
• Individual assignment of access rights at user level (read, write, delete) and at group level (patient lists)
• Advanced user configurable/modality based compression techniques to compress store/send images
• Task logger to check the status of all the tasks which are currently ongoing
• Statistical report generation with user configurable parameters
• Support for the Web Access to DICOM objects
• Offline storage module
• Patient Registration (fresh registration)
• Patient information reconciliation
• Patient tracking
• Web based modality scheduling
• Rule based procedure steps
• Resource rooster
• Scheduling for future dates/weeks/months

This module of Magnum PACS is an absolute essential for enterprise class hospitals. The module enables users to perform comprehensive Quality Control tasks, in order to maintain the quality of patient critical information and to reduce human error that may affect treatment planning. This module has a high level of security control and is available to authorised users only.

Some of the functionalities offered by the Magnum PACS Quality Control workstation are:

• Patient demographic information correction
• Careful selection and calibration of standard display station
• Adjustment of sequence and image of interest
• Study reconciliation
• Correction of image markers
• Audit log review

A dedicated image acquisition solution, Magnum PACS Framez, is used by Magnum PACS to acquire and store images from non-DICOM compliant modalities like X-ray machines with IITV, Ultrasound, Fluoroscopy, video capture and so on. It offers a foot-pedal interface to the modalities to select the images or images series and store them on to PACS, either as a cine loop or as an individual frame.

Magnum PACS Framez is also equipped with a Modality Work List function to streamline workflow. It can be configured to capture images at any number of user-configurable frames per second.

Some of the functions that Magnum Framez performs are:

• Acquires any non-DICOM compliant/analog images, converts them to DICOM and stores on the server.
• Captures images from any analog video camera interface.
• Captures images or sequences of images from an ultrasound, high-resolution X-ray angiography, endoscopy or microscopy camera and stores them on Magnum PACS.
• Provides the user with the Modality Work List & can be seamlessly integrated with any HL-7 compliant HIS/RIS system.

Magnum PACS 2D is a web-based diagnostic quality image viewer which allows radiologists to access images from the server at both the point-of-care or through remote access over the internet.

Magnum PACS 2D is powered by advanced streaming technology for instant image viewing and reporting on the patient studies. The image viewer incorporates advanced functionalities for 2D image processing.

Some of the capabilities enabled by Magnum PACS 2D are:

• View images in multiple viewport
• Streaming of images in low bandwidth
• Magnifier window
• Hanging protocol
• Auto contrast for CR, MG studies
• Measurement tools : linear, angle, Region of interest
• Zoom, Pan, Rotate
• Flip Horizontal / vertical
• Window level
• Window width
• Dynamic view (cine mode)
• Study, series thumbnails
• Drag and drop functionality for viewing images and printing
• DICOM print
• CD/DVD media burner
• Histogram
• Mouse configuration
• Right click access to image processing tools
• Study comparison
• Image synchronization for processing
• Series synchronization
• Scout lines
• Line annotation
• Text annotation
• Patient demographics and header information display
• Cardio thoracic ratio
• Cobb angle measurement
• WW /WL sensitivity configuration
• Hot key settings
• Multi monitor configuration
• Interface with EMR, HIS, CIS through simple URL integration
• Image filters
• Double click opening of images
• Save annotation
• Image overlay configuration
• Image bookmark
• Key image storage
• Export to TIFF/JPEG/BMP
• Customization of overlay information
• Hide / unhide annotations

Magnum PACS 3D provides an integrated high-end 3D radiology workstation for advanced post processing, in order to better facilitate accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. It is equipped with cutting-edge image processing techniques that enable the radiologist to get better insights into radiological studies under examination. The workstation provides faster volume rendering, a detailed MPR view and min/max intensity projection along with all the advanced 2D features of Magnum PACS 2D.

Some of the features present in Magnum PACS 3D Radiologist Workstation are:

• MPR- multiplanar reconstruction (Saggital, Coronal and Axial orientation)
• MIP- minMIP, avgMIP
• Volume rendering and 3D segmentation
• Automatic detection of bone
• Saving of post-processed Images
• Exporting to JPG, TIFF and BMP
• Image annotations
• 3D synchronization
• Volume of interest
• Sculpting
• Volume of interest segmentation
• Presets and color LUT
• Multimodality functionality
• Bone Removal
• Vessel Tracking
• Cardiac CT
• Coronaries
• Functional
• Virtual colonoscopy
• CT calcium scoring
• CT brain perfusion
• PET/CT fusion

The Remote Vue Teleradiology module facilitates point-to-point communication of radiology images and related patient information electronically for the purposes of reporting, radiology advice or secondary consultation. Remote Vue is developed using the cutting edge in advanced web technology, ensuring security as well as instant access to images and diagnostic reports.

Remote Vue incorporates template-based reporting with voice recording to facilitate faster radiology report turnaround time.

Magnum PACS comes with an image streaming engine which effectively determines how much data can be sent on the available bandwidth by providing instant access to the images. The streaming engine throttles the network and avoids network clogging at the same time, ensuring that the data is available to the receiving remote user instantly and efficiently.

Some of the features present in Remote Vue Teleradiology are:

• Instant image upload directly from any modality/PACS or from local machine
• Advanced compression techniques, depending on the bandwidth, for efficient image transfer
• Completely secure system using MD-5 encryption and decryption techniques
• Supports transcriptionist-friendly workflow with the Work List feature. Template-based reporting further streamlines workflow
• Uses a web-based diagnostic-quality image viewer for faster access to images on any bandwidth connectivity.