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| April 15, 2009 - SoftLink launches Asset Management system for Hospitals |
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AMS helps hospital to enhance the knowledge of capital Assets and their respective Value. With AMS Hospital can maintain, upgrade and operate physical asssets of the hospital. With standard processes and tools AMS helps in organized and logical investment decision making. AMS apart from RFID & Barcode offers manual Asset identification, thereby making it flexible for use and budget of the Hospital. Key Features - Maintains a database of your fixed assets
- Works seamlessly with RFID Devices & Bar Code Device
- Print barcodes on your laser printer
- Reconcile inventory by scanning
- Track Asset Location
- Track Moved Assets
- Track Depreciation
- Report on missing, found, or moved assets
- Track Asset Depreciation
- Export to Excel
- Import data with field mapping
- Maintains financial details and calculates depreciation
- Export depreciation data for use by other software
- Incorporates a complete history of asset scans and asset movement for each asset on file
- Reports allow for multiple such as by department, by category, etc
- Tracks Items Out for repair. Date out, Date due, Comments
- Attach digital image of any asset to the asset record
- Attach an unlimited number of documents to each asset - invoice, repair documents, calibration, certification, etc
- High end SQL database is available for enterpise customers
Security Password protection You control each user level's capabilityNetwork Multi-User / Network ReadyShare data and reports.Benefits Proven, mature, stable asset system Backed by a company with 10 years in business developing PC softwareMinimize data entry errors by entering data using hand held scanners that integrate and upload seamlessly to the systemRealize your return on investment by preventing loss of assets. |
| March 30, 2009 - N. M Wadia Institute of Cardiology selects Softlink |
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After intense evaluation process of evaluating vendors of implementing Hospital Information solution, N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology decided to implement ‘PANACEA – HIMS’ solution from SoftLink International, along with Cardiac Information system.
The N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology was the first non-government sector hospital in India to start a Coronary Care Unit and the first in Poona to pioneer cardiac Catheterization and Angiography, Angioplasty, Stenting, open heart surgery and closed heart surgery which are now all routine activities.
Softlink’s decade long experience in the field of Cardiology has helped them win the deal from the competition. Heart Care Plus – A Cardiac Information system is a proven solution over a decade and is being used in number of hospitals in India as well as abroad. The overall implementation will be done in phased manner spanning 3-6 months.
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| March 21, 2009 - SoftLink implements C-PACS at Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai |
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The electronic storage of patient images generated during an echocardiograph or catheterization procedure in a networked digital archive is called Cardiology PACS (C-PACS). The DICOM Compliant digital Patient images are stored, managed, transmitted and displayed across the Network of the Hospital and over Web.
The cardiologist can view the digital images on a cardiology workstation, which is composed of a display monitor and a central processing unit that is networked into PACS. The Image Server is connected directly to the Cath Lab and/or ECHO machine for receiving DICOM patient images, which are stored on the server with an on-line storage of about 6 months and can go up to a few years.
Nanavati Hospital, a pioneer in Health Care in Mumbai, was using a Stand alone Workstation solution from SoftLink over last 8 years. In last couple of years, a number of significant changes have occurred in image capture, archiving, data retrieval. Integration with information systems and networked approach have dramatically changed the lookout of Management, which decided to implement C-PACS, Cardiology Imaging Network Solution by upgrading traditional stand alone workstation.
After understanding the exact requirement of Hospital, Softlink deployed C-PACS solution connecting to Cathlab with approximately one year of on-line storage on a high-end RAID L5 server for totally storage and security of Patient Images. The solution has created a centralized archive for the entire department.
The Medical director of the Hospital Dr. Mohanty said, “The Solution has enabled doctors to access patient studies from diagnostic review stations on the hospital's local area network (LAN), and they are no longer required to visit Cathlab for accessing Patient studies”. He further added “Two networked enterprise review stations that are strategically placed to increase physicians' access to recent as well as the older images during patient interaction and consultation, resulting in improved workflow as well as patient care in the cardiology department.”
SoftLink’s C-PACS architecture is highly scalable, allowing hospitals to start with a single-lab solution and move to multi-center and multi-modality network based solutions over a period of time. The solution supports other imaging modalities such as electro physiology and vascular labs, cardiac CT, Color Dopplers, 2-D/3-D Echo making it a “ONE Stop” solution for image archival, storage and review for the hospital!
The simultaneous review of patient images from multiple modalities, in multiple windows positions the cardiologist to make a better diagnosis as he has 360 degree view of all the diagnostic images of a patient on ONE screen!
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| December 03, 2008 - SoftLink bags the ‘HMIS’ installation at JIPMER |
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SoftLink International, a leading Software Product company with core focus on Hospital Automation and Medical Imaging, has bagged the prestigious order for implementation of ‘Hospital Management Information System’ at JIPMER, Pondicherry. With more than a decade of indepth experience in the field of ‘Healthcare Information Technology’ (HIT), Softlink has garnered 150 plus installations globally that span across 12 countries! The core strength of SoftLink lies in its product portfolio, which comprises of a fully integrated suite of HIS/CIS/RIS/PACS, making it a “one-stop shop” for an end-to-end solution approach for any Hospital.
JIPMER with a current bed strength of around 1050 and a daily OPD load of around 4500 patients is ranked among the TOP 10 Teaching Hospitals in India. JIPMER offers high quality sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic facility to all patients “free of cost” irrespective of their economic status. The institute runs under the direct administrative control of DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is on par with similar institutes like AIIMS, New Delhi, PGIMER, Chandigarh etc.
Recently, JIPMER was declared as an Institute of National importance by way of a legislation approved in Parliament by the Government of India.
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| Cardiac PACS at Munt Sinai Hospital New York |
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Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the country's oldest and largest voluntary teaching hospitals. Mount Sinai is internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care, education, and scientific research in nearly every aspect of medicine. Mount Sinai's 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital with a medical staff of nearly 1,800 provides physicians who deliver the most advanced and compassionate inpatient and outpatient care.
The Cardiology department performs approximately 14,000 procedures per year, including 4,500 - 5,000 interventional procedures. The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory is known for performing high-risk complex coronary and vascular cases with extremely low complication rates. The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory is on call 24 hours/ 7 days a week for treatment of acute cardiac cases.
Challenge
To Provide PACS solution for Cardiology department connecting 7 Cathlabs (5 DICOM and 2 Non-DICOM). Also the multi – specialty Hospital, had departmental solution like GE PACS for Radiology, Kinet DX, an Echo – PACS from Siemens and ADAC Nuclear Medicine PACS from Philips. The objective was to have an Enterprise level PACS which will integrate all the above along with CIS system from SoftLink and have an interface with Hospital HIS for ‘ADT’.
Solution
SoftLink International deployed, its latest Offering “HCP DICOM Net C-PACS”. The solution is customized to a level so as to provide Seamless integration between, departmental PACS, SoftLink’s CIS and Hospital HIS.
Solution Architecture and Workflow
- Three DICOM Gateways provided
- Images from five digital cathlabs are acquired by first gateway
- Two Analog cathlabs are connected to SoftLink ATOD gateways
- Both analog gateways send data to second acquisition gateway
- Third gateway acquires data from KinetDX Echo PACS and ADAC nuclear PACS
- All these gateways are connected to 10Tb SAN box (online storage archive) through fiber channel on which image data will get stored.
- Acquisition gateways are linked with database server, which in turn servers as Query Retrieval server for external PACS
- Once study is online it gets available through out the network. We are providing ten enterprise and 20 web viewers to all the three (Cardiac, Radiology, Nuclear) departments
- Enterprise viewer is equipped with all the imaging functionality like multi port view, windowing, zooming, panning, online DSA as well as measurements like QCA, LVA
- Web viewers are provided for clinical review
- Along with this Disaster Recovery server is provided, located in a remote facility and a mirror copy each study acquired gets stored on DR server
Upgraded in 2006-07
Technology changes rapidly – planning for it early makes system selection relatively obsolescence proof. Softlink is well aware of the fact that current archive media will become obsolete during the useful life of PACS for any organization. Also the cost of Archive media today will not remain same in future. Thus, we have created migration architecture and tools to painlessly move from the current PACS archive to future media (with no downtime). Open standards and nonproprietary storage techniques are used in the archive, to allow simplified backups and data migration. PACS systems contain terabytes of storage, so ensuring that the archive can be migrated in the future without bringing network to halt will certainly pay dividends.
The Enterprise PACS deployed at Mount Sinai around 3 years back was upgrade in 2006–07, demonstrating the scalability of the Softlink Solution. - Server Memory has been upgraded for better performance
- 1 Disk Array to 2 Disk Array
- Storage has been upgraded from 21 TB to 30 TB with provisioning go further upto 54 TB
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| SoftLink implements C-PACS at Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai |
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The electronic storage of patient images generated during an echocardiograph or catheterization procedure in a networked digital archive is called Cardiology PACS (C-PACS). The DICOM Compliant digital Patient images are stored, managed, transmitted and displayed across the Network of the Hospital and over Web.
The cardiologist can view the digital images on a cardiology workstation, which is composed of a display monitor and a central processing unit that is networked into PACS. The Image Server is connected directly to the Cath Lab and/or ECHO machine for receiving DICOM patient images, which are stored on the server with an on-line storage of about 6 months and can go up to a few years.
Nanavati Hospital, a pioneer in Health Care in Mumbai, was using a Stand alone Workstation solution from SoftLink over last 8 years. In last couple of years, a number of significant changes have occurred in image capture, archiving, data retrieval. Integration with information systems and networked approach have dramatically changed the lookout of Management, which decided to implement C-PACS, Cardiology Imaging Network Solution by upgrading traditional stand alone workstation.
After understanding the exact requirement of Hospital, Softlink deployed C-PACS solution connecting to Cathlab with approximately one year of on-line storage on a high-end RAID L5 server for totally storage and security of Patient Images. The solution has created a centralized archive for the entire department.
The Medical director of the Hospital Dr. Mohanty said, “The Solution has enabled doctors to access patient studies from diagnostic review stations on the hospital's local area network (LAN), and they are no longer required to visit Cathlab for accessing Patient studies”. He further added “Two networked enterprise review stations that are strategically placed to increase physicians' access to recent as well as the older images during patient interaction and consultation, resulting in improved workflow as well as patient care in the cardiology department.”
SoftLink’s C-PACS architecture is highly scalable, allowing hospitals to start with a single-lab solution and move to multi-center and multi-modality network based solutions over a period of time. The solution supports other imaging modalities such as electro physiology and vascular labs, cardiac CT, Color Dopplers, 2-D/3-D Echo making it a “ONE Stop” solution for image archival, storage and review for the hospital!
The simultaneous review of patient images from multiple modalities, in multiple windows positions the cardiologist to make a better diagnosis as he has 360 degree view of all the diagnostic images of a patient on ONE screen!
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| N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology selects Softlink for implementing HIS/CIS solution |
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After intense evaluation process of evaluating vendors of implementing Hospital Information solution, N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology decided to implement ‘PANACEA – HIMS’ solution from SoftLink International, along with Cardiac Information system.
The N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology was the first non-government sector hospital in India to start a Coronary Care Unit and the first in Poona to pioneer cardiac Catheterization and Angiography, Angioplasty, Stenting, open heart surgery and closed heart surgery which are now all routine activities.
Softlink’s decade long experience in the field of Cardiology has helped them win the deal from the competition. Heart Care Plus – A Cardiac Information system is a proven solution over a decade and is being used in number of hospitals in India as well as abroad. The overall implementation will be done in phased manner spanning 3-6 months.
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