CyPACS Ophthalmology

Modern healthcare delivery creates and uses a variety of electronic files—images (digital & analogue), video, audio and signal data—for diagnosis and treatment. As such, it is critical that all of this information is available to physicians, nurses and clinicians in a consistent manner. Integrating medical images with patient data is an essential component of an electronic medical record. CyPACS ophthalmology from Cynaptix consolidates all digital files into a single well-managed unit, which can be used as part of an enterprise-wide information management initiative.

Picture archival and communication system for ophthalmology

Benefits

Images picked up from diagnostic imaging equipment are captured, stored and distributed by the system making image transfer and review by doctors from different specialties concurrently with ease. The information provided would consist of patient demographic data, clinical history, study info and image analysis details along with source images and markings (or annotations) made by physicians thereby simplifying review of a patient file by a doctor from his office and then schedule a follow-up examination or recommend a treatment plan.

The biggest benefit derived from this system integration is breaking the physical as well as time barrier for information exchange and networking images throughout the hospital and physician offices. Once an examination is completed ophthalmologists, optometrists, clinicians and other ancillary staff access it multiple times. Physicians review the images as well as the transcripts several times – more so in a teaching and research institution. Physicians can possibly see more patients as they could easily review patient records from the office. Decreased operational costs for the hospital are possible.

REPORTS

The system can generate reports based on the automated analysis of the study for a given patient and also statistics based on the patient database. Chart options such as pie, line and bar diagrams are available. Day register is generated based on the patients’ visit on a given day.

MARKING TOOLS

CyPACS provides tools for marking the disc, cup, segments, etc. on the image.

CyPACS IMAGE HIERARCHY

Ophthalmologic studies involve dealing with number of images of the retina. For instance, there could be two studies one with say 45o and the other with 60o fundus camera setting. Each of the studies for example, could be extended to one series for the left eye and another for the right eye. Under each series there could be several images based on the eye segment. IMAS-Doc image hierarchy is similar to the one adopted by DICOM 3.0 standards.