Meet aycan at RSNA 2017 in Chicago

Visit us at RSNA 2017 booth #7710.

aycan universal archive is a vendor neutral archiving and distribution system designed for hospitals and imaging centers that have disparate PACS systems helping them be more efficient with the management and sharing of images and other data. Along with enterprise and cross department storage, the universal archive provides an open platform to use best-of-breed technologies, stores DICOM and non-DICOM images, and integrates RIS, EMR, and other patient management systems. Other capabilities of aycan universal archive include automatic purging, compression, copying, and movement of images/data across the enterprise; and central and local level storage. aycan universal archive is supported by aycan professional services team with services that include data migration, design and implementation, and training, as well as ongoing immediate, live, customer service and support.

aycan universal archive key benefits include:


Improve physician workflows and patient care
Unlock disparate archives while maintaining local control
Minimize time and costs of managing multiple disparate archives
Improve image life cycle management
Easily integrate with other systems and use best-of-breed technologies


View live demo of RIS/PACS and other vendor-neutral medical imaging solutions
aycan will also demonstrate its fully integrated RIS/PACS solution as well as their latest vendor-neutral archiving, viewing, printing, and integration solutions and services designed to improve workflow efficiency and drive down costs.

November 26th - December 1st

Roentgen moves to CCW

In the new part of the Congress Centre Würzburg a new board informs visitors about the sensational
discovery of the X-Rays on November 8, 1895 made by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. The Roentgenmemorial, that is just 500 meters away from CCW in the building of the former Institute of Physics of the University Würzburg is highlighted.

The city of Würzburg in cooperation with Röntgenkuratorium Würzburg e. V. honors this discovery with the attachment of this board in the new CCW, which was installed on September 6, 2016.

aycan PACS software with updates: aycan workstation 3.4 and aycan store 2.8

aycan recently has released aycan workstation 3.4 and aycan store 2.8. The software updates contain new functions and a deeper PACS/RIS/HIS integration.

For larger teams in hospitals or medical practices, aycan now offers the aycan workstation Enterprise Edition. Users benefit from personal worklists as well as from the ability to simultaneously access centralized worklists. The costumers use these worklist albums for reporting and dictation. Thus, their daily workflow is significantly facilitated. These new functions are supporting collaboration in a team, avoiding double diagnosis.

Furthermore, aycan provides an update to the aycan store PACS archive. It supports the Enterprise functions with the management of individual worklists and HL7 interfaces. The access speed of the aycan workstation towards the archive was significantly increased (by factor 4). aycan web, the viewer for image distribution, now offers individual user and rights administration. It can be integrated with a study call using structured URL into RIS/HIS/EPR.

aycan telerad improves regarding easier access to other workstations, locations and iPads. aycan provides secure transmission of medical images and messages via private cloud.

More information can be found on the aycan website www.aycan.com.

Weblinks

aycan workstation - multi-modality post-processing workstation
aycan store - VNA DICOM PACS Archive
aycan web - image distribution
aycan telerad - Teleradiology easy and secure
aycan website

Structured Reporting and aycan workstation Enterprise Edition at ECR 2016

From the 2nd to 6th of March 2016, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) will hold its annual European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. aycan will present its aycan workstation Enterprise Edition and multiparametric prostate MRI analysis with structured reporting (PI-RADS) at exhibition booth # 113. The vendor of innovative medical technology will also celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. 

aycan will demonstrate clinical parametric analysis for prostate with structured reporting (PI-RADS). This is an optimized workflow for radiologists to evaluate the prostate. Therefor, aycan offers optimized Hanging Protocols. These can be used for various MRI sectors, such as mammography, vessel analysis and teleradiology. The documentation with PI-RADS also allows to attach Key Images to the findings.

Furthermore, interested visitors of the congress are invited to get informed about the aycan workstation Enterprise Edition. It is now possible to exchange reports within a team to simplify the communication. Nevertheless, worklists can be generated individually for each workstation. This allows customers – for example clinics or medical practices – to distribute the workload across multiple locations or report creators and to generate shorter process times.

During the development of the Enterprise Edition, also access speed to the archive increased by factor 3. Not only diagnosing, but also the post-processing (3D, 4D, tomosynthesis, fusion and mammography) with aycan workstation has been significantly improved.

Meet aycan and its team of experts at this year's ECR 2016 at booth 113 (Foyer X4 – former Expo A) for latest products and information. All information about aycan and its solutions can be found on www.aycan.com.

Weblinks
aycan Website
aycan workstation
ECR Wien 2016

Support the Roentgen Memorial at RSNA 2015

On November 8th, 1895, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered a new kind of ray, which he
called X-rays. A small laboratory located in the former Physical Institute of the University of Würzburg, now the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg, was the sight of one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in medical history.


The “Röntgenkuratorium Würzburg e.V.” was founded on December 3rd 1981, as a registered association to honor the memory of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
The nonprofit organization designed, maintains and manages the Röntgen memorial located at the site where Röntgen first discovered X-rays, the former Institute of Physics at the University of Würzburg on Röntgenring 8.


Please explore the Memorial and consider making a single or sustaining membership donation to help preserve this historically important site.

If you want to learn more, visit us at RSNA 2015 at the aycan booth #7710.

Weblinks:

Roentgen Memorial website
Donate for the Roentgen Memorial
Become a sustaining member of the Röntgen Memorial
Download PDF

iOS and Mac in Radiology with aycan

Meet us at the Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue in Chicago on November 30th 2015 at 6:00 p.m.
aycan and Apple will present it's solutions for radiology at RSNA 2015. Sign up here...

120th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays

On November 8th, 1895, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered a new kind of ray, which he
called X-rays. A small 120Jahrelaboratory located in the former Physical Institute of the University of Würzburg, now the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg, was the sight of one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in medical history.

At this place the celebrarion started on Nov. 7th 2015 with the annual meeting of ISHRAD (International Society for History in Radiology). Chairman Prof. Thomas, UK and the delegates provided lectures about the history of radiology in Röntgen’s lecture hall.

On Nov 8th 2015 was a open house day of the Röntgen Memorial. More than 1000 people visited Prof. Röntgen’s lab.

A formal celebration organized by the City of Würzburg, the University of Würzburg, the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt and the Röntgenkuratorium e.V. with 200 invited guests was held.

Weblinks
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays

Mac vs. PC—Benefits Validated in IBM Study

aycan has been using Apple Macintosh computers to run its medical solutions for over 10 years due in part to their intuitive interfaces and overall reliability.  A recent study by IBM validates these and other benefits of choosing Mac computers over Windows PCs. 

In the study posted on 9to5mac.com, IBM found that only 5% of Apple users contact IT support vs. 40% of Windows PC users.  Because of this, the spending to replace Window’s PC’s with Mac’s is quickly offset by the lower support cost.  In the article, IBM’s VP of Workplace-as-a-Service Fletcher Previn noted, “Every Mac that we buy is making and saving IBM money.”
 In these times of cost constraints and budget cuts, hospitals and medical practices need to address reductions in IT spending and switching from PC’s to Macs is one way to significantly do that. aycan can show you how to integrate Mac-based RIS and PACS applications into your environment, so your organization can benefit by the type of cost savings outlined in the article.

Weblinks:
Integration of Mac Workstations
Mac-based RIS/PACS

Röntgen Memorial will host ISHRAD 2015 meeting

This year’s meeting of the International Society of History in Radiology (ISHRAD) will be held Nov. 6-8 2015 in Würzburg. 2015 is the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the x-rays. The lectures for the symposium will be held in W. C. Röntgen’s lecture hall. Attendees will participate at a guided tour to the W. C. Röntgen’s lab.

For details about registration and agenda click here.

Structured Reporting in Radiology

Complexity in imaging diagnostics is increasing. Structured tumor classification, such as Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) or Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), are used in daily routine.

Therefore structured reports are ideal to easily create complex reports and efficiently communicate with referring physicians.

The ayReport plug-in with universally recognized PDF report templates, allows easy report completion and sharing. 

Report will be pre filled with patient demographics and examination details automatically. Users can
add measurements and key images to the reports. Calculations directly can be executed in the PDF forms.
Reports can be shared through DICOM c-store, DICOM CD, web access or email.

We are currently offering templates for:

1. PI-RADS (V1 and V2)
2. BI-RADS
3. AAA Sizing for all major vendors
4. NASCET ECST grafing of carotis stenosis
5. TAVI sizing
6. TNM lung cancer screening

Individual customized reporting forms can be created easily.

Weblinks:
aycan OsiriX PRO Structured Reporting

Demovideo

aycan installs PACS at Alorf Hospital, Kuwait

Fully Integrated PACS solution provides efficient workflow

Würzburg, July 3, 2015, aycan, a recognized global leader in workflow solutions for medical imaging, announced today the installation of an aycan PACS for Alorf Hospital, a leading multi-specialty hospital in Jahra, Kuwait.

For its digital equipment, Dr. Khaled Kamal, consultant and head of the radiology department, trusts in German products. It was important for Alorf Hospital that their PACS vendor offers a turnkey solution with all components working together seamlessly.

Customized for Alorf Hospital, the aycan PACS solution is comprised of aycan store, a scalable, high performance DICOM archiving and distribution system; aycan OsiriX PRO, a diagnostic viewer; aycan mobile, a teleradiology iPad application; aycan Private Cloud, a secure teleradiology image transfer solution; and aycan xray-print, a DICOM paper print solution.

"As a senior radiologist, I worked with different workstations, radiology printing solutions and PACS systems – truly, I found that aycan offers the best solution and with superior quality regarding paper printing. Clinicians are very pleased with the cost savings, which made the administration quite happy as well.”, says Dr. Kamal. 

Dr. Kamal further adds: “Working with aycan OsiriX and PACS makes life so easy for the radiologist – with amazing workflow and quick image transfer. Last but not least is the aycan mobile teleradiology solution… it is the best no doubt, and nothing can compete with aycan in this area. Teleradiology is an important part of my job. I can now leave the hospital and travel with peace of mind knowing I have access to all images at all time.”


To simplify the work of a radiologist, aycan developed the aycan mobile iPad App, which offers physicians an opportunity to communicate without being in the clinical office. Furthermore it is possible to take data paperless to the patient's bedside. And via Private Cloud it is very easy to change data on every device in real time.

Learn more at www.aycan.com

Clinical Trials with aycan OsiriX PRO

Handling of medical imaging data in clinical trials is getting very easy, while using aycan OsiriX PRO. The comprehensive, powerful DICOM review and postprocessing workstation enables multisite clinical trials with a secure cloud-based, zero-config communication. Flexible data management, multiple databases, anonymisation and import/export tools assist radiologists and study nurses.

We are offering enhanced post processing plugins for automatic registration and GPU-based semi-automatic segmentation

aycan's structured reporting tool attaches individual customized reporting forms (CRF's) as DICOM PDF's to the medical imaging data. Results of all CRF's can be stored in the PACS archive aycan store and exported to a CSV table with one click.


Learn more at www.aycan.com

aycan joins Healthcare Conference UK

aycan will participate in the Healthcare conference UK on 13th May 2015 at the ICO Conference Centre in London.

A very important topic will be the opportunity to create a paperless and filmless National Healthcare System (NHS) with the help of PACS and Radiology Information Systems. 

Paperless office is no longer a vision of the future. With an effective workflow and systems that support communication between clinical and mobile devices, it's getting more and more easy to do healthcare without paper. 
aycan will help you creating your own paperless clinic workflow. Experience how simple and smooth aycan store and aycan OsiriX PRO will fit into your existing PACS.
aycan store gives you the possibility to work vendor independent. It is individual suited on the needs of its user.
If your are interested in getting effortless access to your images with short loading times we can show you the benefits of aycan OsiriX PRO.

Join aycan at the Healthcare conference UK and get more informations for your paperless work. We are looking forward to meeting you in London.

aycan mobile at HIMSS Turkey 2015 in Antalya

From 20th to 21st March 2015, the Turkish Ministry of Health and HIMSS Europe will cohost the HIMSS Turkey Educational Conference & Exhibition. One of the main themes will be Healthcare IT and Mobility. aycan will present its mobile teleradiology solution.

Use aycan mobile for your hospital or imaging center to benefit from its simplicity. Users can access and use its robust feature set quickly and easily. Images can be send from aycan Osirix PRO to aycan mobile via drag & drop.

Most important: Your sensible data is secure. With industry standard encryption and patient anonymization, aycan mobile is approved with CE label and FDA clearance.

Images can easily be viewed, compared and annotated. aycan mobile offers key image processing capabilities such as zoom and pan, multiple series comparison and synchronization, embedded dictation and text on ROIs. Use the possibility to store your work on your iPad for future reference.

"We are convinced that with aycan mobile, clinics will be more efficient in their daily work. Our iPad app will help to improve their communication and provides a quickly transfer of medical images and data to any desired places." says Stephan Popp, CEO of aycan.

In addition to aycan mobile, aycan is also following the concept of Deconstructed PACS, providing the three PACS components Archive (aycan store), Viewer (aycan OsiriX PRO) and Workflow: All components are being connected with a standardized interface (DICOM, HL7, …) to a complete system.

Experience how the aycan PACS solution helps your clinic to reform daily communication – Visit us on our booth #310. We are looking forward to meeting you there.

All information about the aycan PACS can also be found on www.aycan.com.

Weblinks:

HIMSS Turkey 2015 Official Website

aycan mobile – Teleradiology iPad App

aycan OsiriX PRO

Deconstructed PACS

First intercontinental data transfer with aycan telerad

Yesterday we had the first live DICOM data transfer through our Private Cloud service aycan telerad.
Two hospitals located in Europe and Asia shared DICOM studies with the secure client encrypted teleradiology solution based on Apple and OsiriX PRO technology.



Weblinks:
Read more about Private Cloud with aycan telerad 

Teleradiology 4.0

Imagine, you can send DICOM images via drag and drop over a cloud service. With zero config, secure VPN and
DICOM configuration, with strong encryption on client site. No need to store medical images on an internet server like other cloud tele radiology providers do. Simple and lossless from workstation to workstation, transferred from the imaging center to the hospital, home office and mobile on the iPad. Compliant with the gold standard German data protection legislation.

You think this does not work?

Visit aycan at ECR 2015 in Vienna and find out for yourself.

Deconstructed PACS and Structured Reporting at the ECR 2015 in Vienna

From 4th to 8th of March 2015 the European Society of Radiology will hold its annual European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. aycan will be presenting its PACS solutions from nearly two decades of experience at its exhibition booth 112.

High flexibility, scalability as well as future security is offered by the aycan ‘Deconstructed PACS’ solution. With ‘Deconstructed PACS’, single PACS components (worklist, archives and viewer) can be obtained from different vendors and connected through standardized interfaces into a complete system. With this best-of-breed approach, the PACS can be optimally adapted to the users needs.

PACS solutions from aycan are vendor neutral and use standard interfaces such as DICOM and HL7, which are important for the integration of the individual components.

aycan store for example is a DICOM PACS archive, which has been developed vendor neutral. Thus aycan offers its customers the ability to configure their PACS archive individually and adapt it to their own workflow. Due to the DICOM standard aycan store can be smoothly integrated into common working environments while at the same time providing high reliability and short access times.

In aycan OsiriX PRO medical images from different modalities and formats can be displayed and processed in various ways. The DICOM compatibility, fast image loading-times and an intuitive operation are providing an optimal and improved workflow.

"We at aycan have recognized the value of flexible, vendor neutral PACS-Systems over 15 years ago and therefore designed our products for this concept," says Stephan Popp, CEO of aycan Digitalsysteme. "With our PACS archive aycan store and our multimodal aycan OsiriX PRO Workstation, we can not only provide the archive and viewer component, but instead integrate optimum workflow systems due to our many years of experience."

aycan will also participate in the multimedia classroom. Participants will learn to interpret cases of CT Angiography, MDCT in trauma as well as Cardiac CT and oncologic imaging on different workstations including aycan OsiriX PRO.

Meet aycan and its team of experts on this year ECR 2015 at booth 112 (Expo A) for latest products and information.

All information about the aycan and its PACS-Solutions can also be found on www.aycan.com.

Weblinks:
Deconstructed PACS from aycan

aycan at the ECR 2015
ECR 2015 – Official Website

Deconstructing PACS

Using Multiple Brands to Achieve Maximum System Performance

At RSNA 2015, a “Deconstructed PACS” was widely discussed. The concept, well familiar to and employed by aycan for over 15 years, means to use the best vendor/product for each of the components of a PACS (a worklist (RIS, EHR), a PACS viewer and an archive (VNA)) to achieve individual user requirements and maximum system performance.

Keys to Successfully Implementing a Deconstructed PACS Strategy
The key to successfully implementing a Deconstructed PACS strategy is to start with a knowledgeable systems integrator to choose and integrate the right PACS component brands to meet your particular needs and continue with one service provider that will act as the single point of contact for ongoing system service and support. To ensure the effectiveness of this approach, on-site administrative support is required to ensure the service and support vendor is informed and engaged on any individual system component changes, upgrades or updates. This will help minimize diagnosis and resolution time should an issue arise with the system. 

Main Advantages of a Deconstructed PACS
Using this "best of brand" approach allows you to attain your preferred workflow without having to put all your eggs in one vendors’ basket. 

• Less compromise on user requirements—get exactly what you need from each system component without having to make compromises. 
• Improved cost efficiency—buy just what you need, not a bundle that may have things you don’t. 
• More vendor independence—it’s easier to replace individual components than an entire system from one vendor.

If you use one source for integration and a single point of contact for service and support, such as aycan, you’ll achieve the same and better benefits as if working with a single brand provider, but without all the added cost and compromise on system performance.

Learn More About how to Deconstruct your PACS 
aycan has been designing, integrating and servicing Deconstructed PACS for customers for over 15 years, helping them achieve improved system performance and cost efficiencies. Learn more about this successful strategy direct from our customers by clicking here. 

Weblinks:
aycan store - Vendor Neutral Archive
aycan OsiriX PRO - Multivendor, Multimodality Review- and Postprocessing-Workstation

aycan wins bid to provide data migration services and PACS for State University of New York (SUNY)

aycan was awarded the contract to migrate over 20TB of legacy data currently held on old GE and McKesson PACS servers at Long Island college hospital (LICH) to an aycan vendor neutral archive (VNA) for SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn.

aycan’s VNA, aycan store, includes an html5 web viewer as well as aycan OsiriX PRO workstations.  It will be set up with “Write once read many” (WORM) storage to offer maximum data protection.

Meet aycan at Medica 2014 in November

aycan is going to present its print, post-processing and teleradiology DICOM PACS- solutions at the Medica exhibition 2014. 

The world’s largest medical exhibition, the Medica, will be held from 12th until 15th November in Düsseldorf, Germany. A combination of exhibition, conferences and forums, attract each year numerous visitors from all over the world to the exhibition. 

aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH, a PACS provider from Würzburg in Germany, will present its multi-modality post-processing workstation aycan OsiriX PRO, the teleradiology iPad app aycan mobile and the original DICOM paper print solution aycan xray-print at its booth E10 in Hall 15. 

From a simple X-ray image to a multislice-CT or as a 2D to 5D Viewer, aycan OsiriX PRO presents itself as a workstation that is capable to process a full range of medical image data. The post-processing workstation is DICOM compatible and thus can handle all common DICOM services and integrates uncompromising in each RIS and patient management systems. Fast image loading times, an intuitive operation and the possibility to choose an application-specific package offer an optimal workflow. 

For teleradiology, aycan presents the mobile PACS Viewer aycan mobile for the iPad. With aycan mobile, medical images can be viewed at the bedside of the patient. The password-protected iPad app, approved as a diagnostic app with CE label and FDA clearance, uses a 256-bit encryption for the transmission and storage of DICOM images. Functions such as synchronizing position and image manipulation, single view and split view, voice recording (dictation) or the setting of ROIs are also supported. 

Additionally, aycan xray-print can be viewed at the E10 booth. For almost 20 years, aycan xray-print offers its users quality printouts on plain paper. The DICOM print system is qualitatively very close to film and enormously cost-saving. 

Visit aycan in Hall 15 – booth E10. Competent staff members are happy to answer your questions. Further information on aycan and additional PACS products can be found on www.aycan.com.

Weblinks:
PACS-Solution from aycan
Medica - Official Website