Bisley, UK 17 November 2008, Visbion (www.visbion.com), has installed its leading edge VPACS Enterprise System and Diagnostic Workstations at The Animal Health Trust, Centre for Small Animal Studies in Newmarket, Suffolk.

The Centre for Small Animal Studies is one of the largest multidisciplinary veterinary referral clinics in the UK. VPACS will connect to their existing MRI scanner, ultrasound, CR system, as well as providing expansion capability to connect a CT scanner in the future and creates a single image archive across all devices.

All the vets, clinicians, radiologists and nursing staff can now view and manipulate patient images throughout the hospital. Visbion’s Image Web solution allows quick and easy access to diagnostic quality images via a standard web browser on any networked PC.

Visbion’s Image Viewer Software allows diagnoses to be made by the team of 5 veterinary radiologists on high resolution diagnostic workstations. Images from referring vets can also be imported and displayed on the dual diagnostic screens, ensuring rapid and accurate reporting of these often complex cases.

Ruth Dennis, Head, Diagnostic Imaging Unit at the AHT said “The Visbion workstation displays images of extremely high resolution and is very user-friendly, even for people unfamiliar with digital image systems. It allows many post-processing functions to be carried out and image manipulation is easy. In particular, measurements (including the Norberg angle for hip scoring) can easily be performed”

Victoria Johnson, one of the AHT’s Senior Clinical Radiologists added  “The transition from analogue to digital radiography has increased efficiency of our radiography service; saving time, money and archiving space since we no longer print films routinely”

In the future, the Clinic may also consider enabling external access for teleradiology, so that radiologists who are working off site can interpret the images from home, saving them from a trip into work at unsocial hours. VPACS provides them with this additional functionality.

About Visbion

Visbion specialises in medical image management and display solutions. The company has extensive experience in interfacing medical imaging equipment from a large variety of vendors and provides software and hardware solutions for the acquisition, storage, archive and display of a wide range of medical images.

Visbion has developed specific products for the Radiology, Ophthalmology and Veterinary Radiology markets, based on a common technology platform that provides a proven, highly-scalable and high functionality basis for the Visbion product set. In addition, the company’s technology is embedded as the image management system within a number of leading electronic medical record systems and practice management systems provided by other vendors around the world.

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About Animal Health Trust

The Animal Health Trust is an independent charity located just outside Newmarket, which has been improving animal health and welfare for more than half a century. Employing over 200 scientists, vets and support workers, it conducts research aimed at developing better means of diagnosing and treating diseases of companion animals. Its two clinics, one for dogs and cats and one for horses, provide specialist referral services to the veterinary profession.

http://www.aht.org.uk

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