Holguin Hospitals Improve Imageology Services
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
- Published in Health
- Hits: 2008
Photo: Radio AnguloThe software Imagis® 2.0 is being installed in the three provincial hospitals of Holguín, with the purpose of improving the quality of the Imageology Services, as part of the Eastern Network of Medical Images project in Cuba. The Center for Medical Biophysics (CBM) of Santiago de Cuba, the only one of its kind in the Caribbean nation, is in charge of completing the program that will provide this system to 28 hospitals throughout the country, with the support of the international project VLIR USO, a Belgian academic cooperation program between universities and educational centers on the island.
Malena Rosa Nescolarde Pina, commercial of the CBM, said that for that purpose the province received a donation of hardware for the hospitals Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the pediatric Octavio de la Concepcion de la Pedraja and the surgical hospital Lucía Íñiguez Landín. "We brought 20 computers, three servers with their respective monitors and an equal amount of switches and printers."
"The equipment will be destined to the imageology services and the visualization of the medical images, through our software Imagis in its version 2.0," he said.
The system is aimed at almost all specialties, such as radiology, cardiology, angiology, neurosurgery, neurology and neonatology and medicine and has multiple functions, including the search, recovery and visualization of medical images from DICOM servers. It offers processing options, advanced navigation by topograms, allows the creation of structured and voice reports and storage of images on optical discs and removable devices.
Nescolarde Pina explained that to take full advantage of the potential of Imagis® 2.0 it is necessary to be connected through a digital network to a DICOM medical image server, where the imageology studies are stored and have sufficient disk space (at least 10 Gb ) to store the downloaded images from the server.
Eyris Cruz, a computer scientist at the surgical hospital, stressed that Imagis® 2.0 will enable interconnection between the three Holguin health institutions and in a second stage it will facilitate the transmission of images among all the centers benefited in eastern Cuba.
In this regard, doctors and technicians linked to this project are undergoing a training course, in order to guarantee the quality of the service.
