Multimodality Breast System Integrates Image and Information Management in a Workspace

An Integral Breast Workspace is a set of solutions that provides radiologists the ability to review multimodality breast images at one workspace to help increase quality and efficiency.

At the 2009 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), held in Chicago, IL, USA in November-December 2009, Philips Healthcare (Best, The Netherlands) introduced the workspace.

Globally, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. New guidelines suggest a multimodality approach to screening, diagnosis, and management. With an increasing number of patients and the need to review data from multiple modalities, radiologists are challenged with keeping up with the volume of studies that must be interpreted and reported on multiple workstations.

Philips Integral Breast Workspace addresses this need for integrated image and information management. "Think of all the duplicate work we currently do with all the separate systems,” said Gillian Newstead, M.D., director of clinical breast imaging at the University of Chicago (IL, USA). "Integration will save us a lot of time. And, at the same time it connects to better care for the patients by more accurately relating findings from the different modalities.”

"Philips is focused on developing technologies that enhance services provided to women--from screening to diagnosis, treatment, management, surveillance and the exchanges in between,” said Pat Venters, vice president, Women's Healthcare and Oncology Care Cycle Program, Philips Healthcare. "The introduction of the Integral Breast Workspace supports our goal of helping to improve the health and quality of women's lives worldwide.”

The Integral Breast Workspace includes the products MammoDiagnost VU, Multi-modality Breast Applications, and DynaCAD (computer-aided detection) Enterprise solution for advanced data analysis on a single workspot. The Integral Breast Workspace is also a multi-vendor workstation. The system addresses the need for integrated image and information management. It integrates complete BI-RADS reporting for mammography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and also helps to streamline workflow by providing single-click comparisons with automated multi-modality presentation of patient history.

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