SINGAPORE, 19 JUNE 2009 – Singapore’s largest healthcare group, Singhealth, will be enhancing its radiology management system in order to achieve greater operational efficiency.
The project, to be deployed via a partnership between Singhealth and software giant Microsoft, involves replacing the healthcare group’s current separate systems, which deal with clinical results and image archiving respectively, with an improved version of a Microsoft product known as Amalga Hospital Information System 2009 Radiology Management Solution.
The new integrated system will provide real-time information and synchronisation between clinical results and digitised image studies, and is expected to improve the operational efficiency of the radiology workflow. This includes front-counter clerks, radiographers and radiologists.
The new system is also expected to bring about a reduced risk of mismatching patients’ results and images. The group currently sees some 275 mismatches every year.
“Providing better, safer integrated care for our patients is always our top consideration whenever we embark on any healthcare technology project,” said Dr Wong Yue Sie, chief operating officer, Singhealth group and Singapore General Hospital. “We are confident that the new integrated radiology management system will bring us closer to this goal. With ready sharing of image studies, our patients can move seamlessly across the care continuum.”
The new integrated radiology management system will be rolled out in Singapore General Hospital, Singhealth’s flagship hospital, later this year. The healthcare group’s other institutions, such as the National Cancer Centre Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore, Changi General Hospital and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, are scheduled to employ the new integrated system by 2011.
