Scotland takes lead in UK sight-screening programme
The NHS in Scotland has announced a radical new screening programme to
combat diabetic retinopathy, the biggest single cause of blindness in
Europe.
It will employ Siemens’ management tool, Soarian Integrated Care, to
aid rollout of the programme, which plans to screen all diabetic patients
aged 12 and over from 2006.
According to Siemens, Soarian has the capability to support all
screening models including hospital and community-based programmes. It
ensures the “most advantageous impact” of screening by supporting
optimised screening workflow from patient call to recall, image capture
and grading and evaluation of programme outcomes.
It also manages the communication of results to patients, GPs and medical
record systems.
Its web-based architecture and connectivity to all the approved cameras
ensures minimal set up and maintenance requirements, and data protection
is ensured by user-authentication, access control, audit trails and
encrypted data transmission.
Siemens is also an approved supplier for the English Diabetic
Retinopathy Service.
Source: bjhc&im May 2005
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