Early evaluation of MDIS workstations at Madigan Army Medical Center

Leckie, Robert G.; Goeringer, Fred; Smith, D.L.; Bender, Gregory N.; Choi, Hyung-Sik; Haynor, David R.; Kim, Yongmin

doi:10.1117/12.146983

Cited by 7 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 7 publications

(8 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…which potentially provides a significant increase in functionality, but presently is problematic and being "debugged". The basic MDIS workstation functionality at Madigan has been reviewed previously [6]; emphasis will be on changes over the last year in the software at Madigan. The radiology information system (RIS) is an integral part of the MDIS workstation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

<title>MDIS workstation: an update of performance after nearly two years of clinical use</title>

et al. 1994

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support (MDIS) workstation has been in clinical use at selected military medical centers since March 1992. The workstation is a critical component in Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) representing the interface between the system and the end user. The workstation has undergone several software changes over the last year based on feedback from end users. The present performance of the workstation in terms of image manipulation and navigation, response time, database, and reliability will be emphasized. Discussion will include clinical acceptance, lessons learned, and future enhancements.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The WSU transmits images to the workstation via a direct fiber optic link to the special processing board (64 or 32 Mbytes of memory for diagnostic or clinical workstations respectively). Once full, the system automatically pages images in from the WSU [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

<title>MDIS workstation: an update of performance after nearly two years of clinical use</title>

et al. 1994

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Evaluation of the Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support system based on 2 years of clinical experience

Smith

Bender

et al. 1995

J Digit Imaging

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support (MDIS) system at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) has been operational in a phased approach since March 1992. Since then, nearly all image acquisition has been digital with progressively increasing primary softcopy diagnosis used. More than 375,000 computed radiography (CR) images as well as other modality images have been archived. Considerable experience in installation and implementation phasing has been gained. The Iocation and ergonomic aspects of equipment placement were refined with time. The original clinical scenario was insufficiently detailed and additions were made to facilitate smoother and more complete transition toward a filmless environment. The MDIS system effectiveness and performance have been good in terms of operational workload throughput, background operations, and reliability. The important areas regarding reliability are image acquisition, output, display, database operations, storage, and the local area network. Fail-safe strategies have been continually improved to maintain continuous clinical image availability during the times when the MDIS system or components malfunction. Many invaluable lessons have been learned for effective quality assurance in a hospital-wide picture archiving and communication system. These issues include training, operational quality control, practical aspects of CR image quality, and increased timeliness in the generation and distribution of radiographic reports. Clinical acceptability has been a continuous process as each phase has been implemented. Clinical physicians quickly used the workstations soon after the start of MDIS at MAMC. The major advantage for clinicians has been the amount of time saved when retrieving multimodality images for review. On the other hand, the radiologists have been slower in their acceptance of the workstation for routine use. Radiologists need the completed software and hardware implementation to achieve the throughput necessary for a high-volume practice setting in making primary softcopy diagnoses. This is a US government work. There are no restrictions on its use. KEY WORDS: filmless hospital, Medical DiagnosticImaging Support (MDIS) System, picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

show abstract

Telemammography: Implementation Issues

Goldberg¹,

Dwyer²

1995

Telemedicine Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Telemammography has the potential to improve access to centralized expertise for the interpretation of breast imaging studies. Digital mammography has more demanding spatial resolution requirements than other forms of medical imaging because of the need to detect microcalcifications, the fine details of lesion margins, and subtle architectural distortion. The resolution requirements for mammography have important implications for image acquisition and display technologies. The large size of the resulting image data sets places significant demands on local and wide area networks as well as storage media. Image data compression will be particularly important for telemammography to help make systems practical and affordable. This article describes how existing technologies can be adapted to implement telemammography systems in the near future.

show abstract

Early evaluation of MDIS workstations at Madigan Army Medical Center

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

<title>MDIS workstation: an update of performance after nearly two years of clinical use</title>

<title>MDIS workstation: an update of performance after nearly two years of clinical use</title>

Evaluation of the Medical Diagnostic Imaging Support system based on 2 years of clinical experience

Telemammography: Implementation Issues

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About