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Subject : Louvain-La-Neuve - Important contract for Télémis

Vers l'Avenir Brabant Wallon (19/06/2004)
Les radiographies aux oubliettes (Radiographs are in the past!)
Le Centre médical Bordet abandonne définitivement les films photos en imagerie médicale. Ils ont fait place à la gestion numérique des images.
(Photographic films in medical imagery are definitely no more used at the Bordet medical centre. Now, they are using a digitalized images)

 

Summary :

 

The Bordet Institute has totally changed its medical imagery service thanks to Télémis, a new company located at Louvain-La-Neuve and specialized in the digitisation and the compression of medical images.

The treatment of patients at the Jules Bordet Institute is often intensive and long where medical imagery (scan, radiograph, mammography examinations, etc.) plays an important role.

Until recently, all the negatives (more and more numerous) were still traditionally developed.
At the end of the eighties, the Jules Bordet Institute began to exploit digitisation and on 01 March 2004, the printer was definitely disconnected : Jules Bordet Institute is now functioning almost without any photographic film.

Stephane Ketelaer, Télémis director, explains that 3 months were necessary for the new system to be implemented and centralized in order to find a solution allowing to share the images among all the physicians in charge of a patient, that is to say, within the Jules Bordet Institute but also physicians at another hospital, a family practitioner, etc.
In order to do so, Damien De Greef, Télémis sales manager explains : "The reading has been made possible thanks to a CD-ROM with integrated software or thanks to the image printing."

The comparison between these images and those coming from techniques such as PET scan, scan, etc. is now possible. This will inevitably lead to an even more accurate diagnosis.

"Les Amis de l'Institut Jules Bordet" have largely contributed to this project by participating to the costs (250.000 euros). But, this investment will rapidly be paid off considering the cost of a traditional radiograph.

 

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