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Northern Health Adding More High-Tech

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Northern Health Regional Director of Diagnostics, Ken  Winnig at a PACS machine

It's called  Pictures Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS for short) and it will lead Northern Health into a new age of medical imaging.

It means an end to those black floppy x-ray pics, and moving all medical images (x-rays, CT scans) taken in hospitals and health centres, to a computerized system.   Once computerized, physicians anywhere in the system can have access to the "pictures".

Northern Health will spend $3.67 million over the next year to boost the capabilities of (PACS) in the health region’s medical imaging departments. “We’re building a secure system to allow any image to be sent anywhere at anytime within and between Northern Health facilities and to sites outside our health region,” said Northern Health Regional Director of Diagnostic Services Ken Winnig. “Patients will benefit because physicians, including radiologists and other specialists, will have secure access to diagnostic images that will assist in determining an accurate diagnosis.”

NH has received $3 million from federal/provincial new and emerging technology funds to deploy new digital imaging technology. NH is also investing another $670,000 in capital funding.
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