Growing ageing population and changes in lifestyle has created number of new health problems and diseases which in turn increases healthcare needs and it’s a common phenomenon all over the world.
To address the growing healthcare needs new medical devices are getting developed that includes therapeutics and diagnostics equipments for fast and accurate treatment.
With the advancement of imaging technology for diagnostics it is now possible to analyze and measure various medical parameters in the body. Digital Imaging is the leap step towards making diagnostic procedure fast and accurate with various other advantages.
Today many technology forums are coming up with new standards to make the digital imaging system more robust and easily accessible from any location, to make it realistic - imaging standards like JPEG2000/JPEG XR for lossless compression, DICOM for communication and PACS for archival and retrieval are gaining momentum.
To make the diagnostics imaging an integral part of the healthcare ecosystem, it’s highly essential to integrate the HL7, DICOM and PACS with the image processing system that will not only help physician or doctor to visualize and analyze patient's body parts at the time of diagnostics/surgery but also later-on to check health history and deciding on the treatment required.
The major pain area for the OEMs to develop such imaging system is separate image processing and visualization (2D/3D/4D) applications for various modalities like Ultrasound, DR, CR, CT, MRI, CMOS, PET, SPECT etc. which in turn increases the price of individual modality. Hence, increases the healthcare cost.
To address the pain point of OEMs, R&D Services Company like HCL Technologies is investing on developing core domain expertise and real-environment reference implementation. Strategic partnership with leading vision platform vendor and academic & healthcare institute provides the base to develop, implement, test and validate the concepts.
So, in near future it’s expected that image based medical diagnostic procedures will be completely digitized and integrated with hospital/healthcare network.
To discuss further please write back to me about the new developments in medical imaging.
- Sourabh Kumar Biswas
Imaging Consultant – HCL Technologies Ltd.
sourabhkumarb@hcl.com
To address the growing healthcare needs new medical devices are getting developed that includes therapeutics and diagnostics equipments for fast and accurate treatment.
With the advancement of imaging technology for diagnostics it is now possible to analyze and measure various medical parameters in the body. Digital Imaging is the leap step towards making diagnostic procedure fast and accurate with various other advantages.
Today many technology forums are coming up with new standards to make the digital imaging system more robust and easily accessible from any location, to make it realistic - imaging standards like JPEG2000/JPEG XR for lossless compression, DICOM for communication and PACS for archival and retrieval are gaining momentum.
To make the diagnostics imaging an integral part of the healthcare ecosystem, it’s highly essential to integrate the HL7, DICOM and PACS with the image processing system that will not only help physician or doctor to visualize and analyze patient's body parts at the time of diagnostics/surgery but also later-on to check health history and deciding on the treatment required.
The major pain area for the OEMs to develop such imaging system is separate image processing and visualization (2D/3D/4D) applications for various modalities like Ultrasound, DR, CR, CT, MRI, CMOS, PET, SPECT etc. which in turn increases the price of individual modality. Hence, increases the healthcare cost.
To address the pain point of OEMs, R&D Services Company like HCL Technologies is investing on developing core domain expertise and real-environment reference implementation. Strategic partnership with leading vision platform vendor and academic & healthcare institute provides the base to develop, implement, test and validate the concepts.
So, in near future it’s expected that image based medical diagnostic procedures will be completely digitized and integrated with hospital/healthcare network.
To discuss further please write back to me about the new developments in medical imaging.
- Sourabh Kumar Biswas
Imaging Consultant – HCL Technologies Ltd.
sourabhkumarb@hcl.com
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