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Imaging centers with a focus on mammography have dozens to hundreds of patient digital studies that must be handled, viewed and stored throughout the course of every work day. Anything that can be done to save time while improving patient care should be, because the more time that is saved, the more time can be applied to viewing digital medical images, thereby also improving the bottom line of your medical facility. Having an appropriate mammography screen makes a big difference in the ease and therefore speed with which physicians can view the digital studies.
Flexibility in use is a huge plus when it comes to a mammography machine that will be used by numerous technicians and physicians as part of a clinical workstation setup. A mammography screen, which is also known as a mammography viewer, is used for the purpose of viewing digital medical images from a variety of modalities, and can also be used to edit the digital images in order to improve clarity of the images and thus provide accurate data for diagnosis.
The administrative staff can manage the mammography machine so that each authorized personnel member is given a username and password to access the system,. This keeps your imaging center within HIPPA compliance for patient privacy.
With a mammography machine that is web-based, you have a great deal of flexibility built into the system. Because it is online, several radiologists can use their workstations at the same time, and can even look at the same studies at the same time as well. In the digital environment, just as with a common personal computer, it takes only a matter of seconds to retrieve patient studies, even large ones, with the added benefit that your workstation can be programmed to automatically retrieve images for which you set the parameters, saving you even more valuable time.
Several studies may be viewed on the screen simultaneously, and you can see images that come from a variety of modalities such as CT, Ultrasound and MRI. Dynamic hanging protocols suited to mammography are all built into the system, as are reporting features such as report creation in the BIRADS format. You can optimize the system to prepare reports in the order of your choosing, again as another way to streamline your daily work tasks.
With all of these convenient features built into today's modern mammography viewers, you can experience more productivity at your imaging center by saving valuable time on every digital image study, along with enhancements that go to improve patient care.
