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Trucell Announced as Preferred Reseller of LG Diagnostic Displays in Australia

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Trucell Pty Ltd, a leading provider of medical imaging solutions in Australia, is proud to announce that it has been selected by LG Electronics as one of its two preferred resellers for LG Diagnostic Displays in Australia. This partnership underscores Trucell’s commitment to providing the highest quality medical imaging technology to healthcare providers across the country.

LG Electronics, a global leader in electronics and technology, has recognised Trucell’s dedication to excellence and customer service in the medical imaging sector. This partnership will allow Trucell to offer LG’s state-of-the-art diagnostic displays, known for their exceptional clarity, precision, and reliability, to a wider range of healthcare providers.

LG Diagnostic Displays are designed to meet the demanding needs of today’s healthcare industry. They offer superior image quality, ensuring accurate diagnoses and patient treatment. With this partnership, Trucell will be able to provide these cutting-edge displays to hospitals, clinics, and medical centres across Australia.

About Trucell Pty Ltd

Trucell is a leading provider of medical imaging solutions in Australia. With a focus on innovation and customer service, Trucell offers a wide range of products and services designed to meet the needs of healthcare providers. Trucell is committed to providing the highest quality technology to help healthcare providers deliver the best possible patient care.

About LG Electronics, Inc.

LG Electronics, Inc. is a global leader in technology and consumer electronics. LG’s vision is to deliver innovative digital products and services that make life better, easier and more comfortable for consumers. The company is known for its high-quality products, innovative technology, and commitment to social responsibility.

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Ensuring Accurate Medical Image Representation And Patient Safety

By Diagnostic Monitors, Radiology No Comments

DICOM Compliance: Monitoring the Monitors

DICOM compliance for diagnostic monitors is often overlooked until something goes wrong. Regular DICOM compliance testing is of utmost importance to ensure that medical imaging displays deliver high-quality results with accurate diagnoses.

Displaying a compliance check for a recent DICOM Compliance Check.

Diagnostic imaging technologies are built to provide accurate and detailed images of the human body. The images created by this technology must be displayed accurately on a monitor in order to properly diagnose a patient. This is where DICOM comes into play. It stands for Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine, and it is an international standard used by medical professionals to ensure that digital imaging equipment is compliant with the necessary quality controls.

Unfortunately, many healthcare facilities overlook the need to test their monitors for DICOM compliance regularly. Without routine tests, any display errors or inaccuracies can lead to misdiagnoses, incorrect treatments, and even wrongfully administered drugs or surgery. Moreover, these problems may not become apparent until it’s too late; if a monitor has been displaying inaccurate images without anyone noticing, then there could be serious consequences for patients’ health down the line.

As such, all healthcare facilities should take proactive steps to ensure their diagnostic monitors are in compliance with DICOM standards. A professional should be consulted to carry out regular inspections of hardware and software components as well as comprehensive testing of the viewing environment itself: lighting levels, seating position relative to the screen brightness, monitor calibration parameters etc.. All these elements can have an effect on how accurately images are displayed on the monitor — so they must be checked frequently!

At the end of the day, ensuring your diagnostic monitors are compliant with DICOM standards is essential for guaranteeing patient safety and protecting against malpractice claims — not just now but long into the future as well. Don’t let negligence catch up with you; make sure you’re taking every step necessary to keep your patients safe!

Non-Diagnostic Quality Monitors

Non-diagnostic quality monitors are not suitable for viewing radiology exams for a number of reasons. The most important factor is that these displays lack the design features necessary to accurately display medical images. Non-diagnostic quality monitors may have lower resolution, slower refresh rates, and poorer colour accuracy than those designed specifically for medical imaging. They also lack features such as backlight uniformity and gamma correction, which are essential to ensure accurate image representation and reliable diagnoses.

The accuracy of the displayed image is not the only factor to consider — non-diagnostic quality monitors may also have less robust construction, low-reliability ratings, or short lifespans. In addition, many diagnostic radiologists prefer higher-end displays with more advanced features such as automatic calibration, adjustable white point settings, and multiple preset modes. These more specialized screens can provide an enhanced experience for both healthcare professionals and patients alike.

Moreover, non-diagnostic quality monitors are not designed to be used in a medical setting and cannot stand up to the rigours of a clinical environment. For example, they may not be made from materials that can withstand regular exposure to cleaning agents or disinfectants; this means that any dirt or debris that accumulates on the monitor’s surface may not be easily removed without damaging it further. Furthermore, non-diagnostic quality monitors tend to have shorter warranties than those designed specifically for medical use — meaning any failure could leave users high and dry when they need it most!

Finally, using non-diagnostic quality monitors in a clinical setting is strongly discouraged by professional organizations such as the American College of Radiology (ACR) and or The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology (RANZCR). This is because these types of displays do not meet the requirements necessary to ensure patient safety — leading to potential misdiagnoses and other mistakes due to inaccurate representations of medical images.

In summary, it’s clear that non-diagnostic quality monitors should never be used for viewing radiology exams — due to their inability to accurately display medical images with sufficient fidelity; their lack of features necessary for reliable diagnoses; their potentially weaker construction; shorter lifespans; and lower warranty coverage compared with professional-grade medical imaging displays.

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At Trucell, we understand that patient safety and quality of care should be a top priority for any healthcare provider. That’s why we offer a comprehensive DICOM compliance check for diagnostic monitors — to ensure patients are receiving the highest quality imaging available. Our team of experienced technicians can provide professional inspections, tests, and assessments of hardware.

MRI Scanners Australia

Are you thinking about opening a Radiology Practice in Australia?

By Healthcare & Medical, MRI, Radiology No Comments

Google Maps MRI ScannersMaybe Trucell can help you decided on the most appropriate location to open a Radiology Practice

We have taken a list of registered Radiology Practices with MRI magnets and plotted them across Google Maps API; we have included the name of the practice and if the practice is funded and non-funded with Medicare for MRI exams.

We hope that this information will help you to place scanners in more relevant areas and provide greater access to diagnostic services across Australia.

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Intelerad Pulse Hardware Monitoring

By Intelerad, Radiology No Comments

PACS DiagramMonitor more than just the health of your software. Take advantage of HP’s and Dell vendor specific SNMP utilities, provide deeper monitoring of your PACS infrastructure.

At the core of every radiology practice there is a PACS providing short and long term image storage. The nature of todays PACS is that it relies on various components both software and hardware and often these components such as databases and image storage volumes are distributed and replicated across multiple pieces of hardware and even across multiple geographical locations. Detecting documenting and managing problems with such a sparse environment becomes very time consuming.

KERMIT Keeping Everything Maintained In Time

At Trucell we take a proactive approach not reactive to your infrastructures hardware and software, inclusive of vendor specific monitoring. Using our proactive maintenance and monitoring tool KERMIT we are able to collect key and specific details about each part of your infrastructure both hardware and software and not limited to just the PACS environment.

Using the collected data we are able to compare and review not only one piece of hardware but many, factoring into account the dependancies of each piece. From CPU Temps to the disconnection or failure of a system fan, or the amount of available memory we are able to determine a failure condition, document and notify the appropriate channel of support before it becomes a timely issue to resolve or even before the end user notices the failure condition.

Intelerad Pulse

Currently Intelerad PACS provides a proactive monitoring approach to software issues confined within its own set of software features and services, known as Intelerad Pulse. To ensure that both hardware and software concerns within your PACS environment are monitored Intelerad has made SNMP available.

SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL

The “Simple Network Management Protocol” is abbreviated as SNMP, it is a collection of resources and tools devoted to the system of network management. Both HP and Dell recognise and provide an SNMP tool kit for all of there hardware platforms which extends Intelerad’s Pulse monitoring platform.

We pre-install the vendor specific SNMP agents provided by both HP and Dell prior to Intelerad’s software installation, alternatively Intelerad provides a service to install the vendor specific SNMP agent which can be accessed via there knowledge base and the request form can be found here.

Using KERMIT we are able to proactively poll/monitor and collect the SNMP agents data on your PACS in real time, once collected KERMIT is able to act on the SNMP conditions and if certain conditions are met act on repairing the issue.

Start monitoring both hardware and software today, don’t rely on vendor specific monitoring limited to vendor software and services. Start utilising HP and Dell featured SNMP utilities to provide deeper monitoring of your PACS infrastructure.

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Trucell partners with SORNA

By Radiology, Vendors No Comments

NSW, Australia — Trucell Pty Ltd, an Asia Pacific leader in digital medical imaging, EMR, data distribution systems, managed I.T services and consultation services announces the establishment of a Dealer Partnership with Eagan, MN — Sorna Corporation a global leader in digital medical image and data distribution systems.

Trucell’s commitment to offering our clients the very latest in product offerings and services has facilitated the partnership between Trucell and the SORNA Corporation. The demands of medical data distribution and the constant evolution of delivery methods has placed SORNA’s products at the forefront of innovation, facilities can utilise eXpedo to automatically share medical images and reports using any combination of CD product, cloud sharing, and/or Secure DICOM Share.