Designed to meet - and exceed - your needs, Centricity PACS-IW:

• Enhances your ability to collaborate within and outside your care setting on complicated imaging cases
• Helps ensure better interactive communication with the healthcare community making consultations and referrals easier
• Provides complete imaging integration to electronic medical records
• Allows you to choose the best application for your clinical requirements and enjoy the optimum level of integration and workflow for your specific needs
• Draws on GE Healthcare’s expertise to help ensure:
• operational excellence
• physician has tool to help achieve higher levels of patient safety and satisfaction
• more productive physician/hospital interaction

Through the power of the web, Centricity PACS-IW offers:

• A single interface and database across all viewers
• Volume-based pricing for unlimited scale
• Support for commercial off-the-shelf hardware
• Turnkey deployment by GE Healthcare or customer for a software-only model
• A portable imaging desktop providing:
  • the largest of today’s 64-slice CT studies
  • integrated 3D (MIP/MPR) on all viewers, even on CDs

PACS-IW additionally allows desktop integration with some of the marketplace’s third-party clinical applications including:

• Voice recognition
• Orthopedic templating and planning
• Advanced nuclear medical imaging
• Advanced PET/CT fusion and visualization
• Peer review and critical results management

Centricity PACS-IW is flexible and can be adapted to the needs of several categories of users:

Radiologists enjoy total access to imaging procedures - on or off-site

• Extensive anywhere image manipulation
• window/level, zoom, pan, stack, triangulation
• embedded 3D: MIP/MPR
• annotations, measurements, presentation states
• Robust study navigation
• SNAP! Tool (patent-pending) for fast, easy study layouts
• automatically hang current, prior and baseline studies
• unlimited number of manual comparison studies
• Comprehensive range of integrated clinical applications
• enables reading more studies on PACS
• further enhances productivity
• Remote access to images and data
• at the hospital or imaging center
• at home via the Internet

Referring physicians appreciate sophisticated imaging technology that’s simple to use

• Automatic e-mail notification
• E-mail templates that can be locally branded
• Secure digital access to imaging procedures and reports, regardless of where they were performed
• Same software tools as the radiologist’s
• Images can be easily manipulated including, zoom, pan, stack, etc.
• Convenient access to images and data:
• At hospital(s)
• At imaging center(s)
• On a home computer via the Internet
• Real-time access to imaging and reporting results
• No more visits to the film file room

IT Department professionals find that Centricity PACS-IW’s 100% web-based architecture:

• Can be administered from anywhere
• Uses HTTPS encryption
• Needs only standards-based, off-the-shelf hardware
• Has standards-based data storage - DICOM and JPEG 2000
• Makes clustered, replicated and business continuity solutions available
• Offers restricted referring-physician access control
• Supports privacy and security auditing - action can be tracked by study or user and is subject to individual or group-based privileges; authorized users can grant temporary study access

Patients benefit from quicker, more accurate, and more secure record keeping by:

• Shorter waits for results
• Greater peace of mind about privacy and accessibility of records
• Patient files that meet the industry’s portability standards - IHE PDI CDs
• Convenient web-access to records by primary care physician(s)