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SynApps Creates a Content Capture and Retrieval Solution for Medical Imagery

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UK tech SME partners with a major NHS England hospital to forge a medical photography capture and retrieval solution for the sector

Maidenhead, UK – August 27, 2014 –SynApps Solutions, the content management specialist, has today announced a new medical capture and retrieval solution to address the prevalence of unmanaged medical photographs in hospitals.

The innovative new solution also offers extensive and Backed up, Accessible/Searchable, Secure and Indexed photography functionality linked to a unified patient record to enhance patient care and minimise a Trust’s legal and financial risk.  The solution was created in partnership with a large NHS England Trust.

The medical care context

For patient safety and legal reasons, Trusts need to take external photographs of patients, e.g. bed sores, bruising, rashes. Prior to recent budget cuts there would have been a dedicated department responsible for the task.  However, these days, ward sisters use digital cameras but without a process and technology to support them.

As a result there is insufficient control or management of these images – some institutions will have the patient and hospital id included, but there is a wide gap in standard approaches. Meanwhile, such images are rarely backed up and there is no link to other hospitals and systems, while for videos of operations and medical procedures, there is a similar inconsistent approach across the sector. 

The ConXPhoto system from SynApps Solutions addresses these issues by using a wi-fi enabled memory card that captures the photo or video and downloads it on to a network drive so it’s adequately backed up. It then validates the clinical info associated with the media by performing a look up on the hospital admin system so that when it files in the VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive), the hospital and patient ID are accurate.

An interface to enter details is also provided in ConXPhoto, while thumbnails of photos and a lightbox for video is also available, allowing users to pick, index and save desired final images to the VNA.

ConXPhoto can work with any Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS).

“Until now, there really was no viable solution that would help address the proliferation of unmanaged photography produced by hospitals across the UK and therefore minimise the storage and administrative difficulties this is starting to create for the NHS,” commented Mark Winstone, Sales & Marketing Director at SynApps.

“We’re excited to introduce today our ConXPhoto software that completely automates this process – allowing hospitals to enhance patient care and improve governance at the same time,” Winstone added.

About SynApps

SynApps is an independent UK-headquartered services and solutions company specialising in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies. Founded in 2003 by former Documentum services professionals, the company provides consultancy, implementation and support services for EMC Documentum, and has authored a suite of content integration solutions, ConXApps, that allow businesses to quickly maximise their investment in ECM technologies. Organisations across healthcare, government and commercial markets rely on SynApps solutions and services to capture and share knowledge more dynamically and efficiently.

Find out more at synapps-solutions.com, or follow the firm on Twitter @SynappsSol

 

SynApps Scales up Its Health Sector Team to Meet Strong VNA Demand from NHS England

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UK tech SME building health IT market momentum with four NHS England hospitals turning to its Vendor Neutral Archive electronic patient record platform

Maidenhead, UK – July 16, 2014 –SynApps Solutions, the content management specialist, has today announced four major hospital Trusts have selected its VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive) solution as the basis of a new generation of EPR (Electronic Patient Records).

These NHS England customers are the latest of a growing roster of Trusts that see VNA, an emerging standards-based way of extending proprietary DICOM-based PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) imaging systems,  as key to meeting Department of Health demands to be ‘paperless’ by 2018.

This will be achieved, say the Trust’s IT leaders, by applying a content management approach to their VNA-based medical records to incorporate DICOM and other format content and make the sharing of medical data easier as well as making patient records available across any combination of service providers across the NHS and beyond. SynApps’ customers say VNA will be the basis of their own next-generation, low-cost EPR (Electronic Patient Records) digital health systems.

“We welcome these new customers, plus are delighted to be helping them get make the Secretary of State’s vision of a paperless, truly data-sharing NHS a reality,” said SynApps’ Sales & Marketing Director, Mark Winstone.

“We have been growing the SynApps health sector team to meet the strong VNA demand that is coming through and will continue to build resource to provide excellent service to NHS England CCIOs.font-size: medium;”

“What makes a VNA-based solution so powerful is that we know it works, we know it’s in place – and we know many NHS England Trusts already use a DICOM-oriented approach to share information.

“The interest and take up of the solution by UK Trusts is testament to the VNA approach’s huge potential.”

About SynApps

SynApps is an independent services and solutions company specialising in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies. Founded in 2003 by former Documentum services professionals, the company provides consultancy, implementation and support services for EMC Documentum, and has authored a suite of content integration solutions, ConXApps, that allow businesses to quickly maximise their investment in ECM technologies.  Organisations across healthcare, government and commercial markets rely on SynApps solutions and services to capture and share knowledge more dynamically and efficiently.

Find out more at synapps-solutions.com, or follow the firm on Twitter @Synappssol

 

Catch up with the SynApps Healthcare Team at UKRC in June

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The SynApps Healthcare team is attending this year’s UKRC in Manchester Central, the UK’s largest diagnostic imaging event. Find out more about the event here

Arrange a chat and catch up with Gary by emailing him on Gary.Britnell@Synapps-Solutions.com.

CIO of Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is Key Presenter at PACS Repatriation Event

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Maidenhead, UK – February 25th, 2014 – The SynApps healthcare team has today announced the line up for its PACS Repatriation event in Peterborough on March 24th.

The event will be opened by Neil Taylor a 20-year veteran of the NHS and a former NHS CEO.  Neil will be joined by David Walliker, CIO of Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, David Burns from NHS Supply Chain and SynApp’s Mark Winstone.

March 24th, Peterborough – 0930-1:00pm  ‘PACS Repatriation – Underway? Completed? Not off the block yet? 

The Great Northern Hotel, 
Station Approach, Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire PE1 1QL

 

  • Join like-minded healthcare and IT professionals for a morning that charts the    benefits of a common platform approach to VNA and XDS solutions and demystifies the options available, the opportunities and the challenges
  • Hear from real VNA practitioners and learn from their experiences and enjoy a complimentary lunch.

Registration for this event is now open.  Email Gary.Britnell@10.128.0.8 for a copy of the agenda and to book your place.

 

Liverpool’s James Norman to Present at the SynApps VNA Event

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Maidenhead – Feb 17th, 2014 – SynApps has finalised the agenda for its VNA event on March 17th to be held at the Foresight Centre in Liverpool starting at 0930.

The event follows the very successful format delivered last year at the Kings Fund in London – The Journey from VNA Repatriation via EDM to Content Sharing (XDS)

The day begins with registration at 0930 and includes speakers such as Neil Taylor, James Norman from the Royal Liverpool, Mark Winstone and Rory Dennis from NHS Supply Chain.

James Norman, director of IT at Royal Liverpool will present his talk entitled ‘An EPR Odyssey & Collaborative Big Data Initiatives’ and will be followed by SynApps’s Mark Winstone speaking on ‘The Journey from VNA to Cross Document Sharing’.

The event ends with a complimentary lunch at 1:00pm.

Register to attend this free event today.  Email Gary.Britnell@synapps-solutions.co.uk

SynApps Announces 2 new PACS Repatriation Event Dates

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Maidenhead, Feb 6th, 2014 – The SynApps healthcare team is taking to the road and delivering two new PACS and VNA events in March.

Following last year’s very successful events at the Kings Fund in London –

‘PACS Repatriation – Underway? Completed? Not off the block yet? and ‘The journey from VNA Repatriation via EDM to Content Sharing (XDS) – the team will repackage that format in two new venues to held in Peterborough and Liverpool.

Registration for the Liverpool event (March 17th) which focuses on the Journey from VNA Repatriation via EDM to Content Sharing (XDS) and for the Peterborough event (March 24th) are now open.  Email Gary.Britnell@10.128.0.8 to book your place.

More details here