DHTI (Nasdaq) is now at 1 3/8 by 1 1/2...on 89,000...up .25 for day. This release is very positive news in my opinion...came out this am:
Dynamic Healthcare Technologies Offers
Web-Enabled Solution to Send Radiology Images to
Remote Locations
LAKE MARY, Fla.--March 11, 1999--Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:
DHTI - news) is embracing the web as a convenient and cost-effective way for radiology professionals to distribute and display
radiology images across local and wide area networks. Using a web-based teleradiology application called Dynamic WebSight,
the company makes it possible for radiology services providers to send images and information to remote locations so that
referring and consulting physicians can view and confer about them simultaneously.
WebSight is part of Dynamic PACSPlus, the company's information-enabled picture archiving and communication system
(PACS) that integrates a patient's information and imaging history with their corresponding radiology images. Unlike
conventional film images, a PACS captures and stores images in digital format on a computer. Dynamic's strategy takes
advantage of web browser technology to make those images available so a physician or radiologist can view them on a
computer at an office, at home or even from a hotel.
Radiologists at the Children's Mercy Hospital (CMH) in Kansas City, Missouri, use WebSight to link their main campus and
south hospital and outpatient specialty clinics. This enables them to provide immediate interpretation of inpatient and outpatient
images even when there is no radiologist at the south hospital. It also allows them to move images from one facility to another
for comparison or consultation, even if the clinician, radiologist, and patient are in different locations. CMH is also using
WebSight to move digital images from radiology to their ICU and ICN, and is beginning to move images to radiologists' homes.
They anticipate adding 20 more locations in the near future, with the goal of delivering ''images anytime/anywhere.''
Glen Seidel, MD, a pediatric radiologist who has led the way in advocating a web-enabled approach at CMH, says that, ''If
we can deliver images and reports to the bedside, clinic, physicians office, or doctor's home using inexpensive PC and web
technology, we can revolutionize the practice of radiology and medicine the way the copier, fax machine, and email have
changed business today. WebSight has the potential to save literally hundreds of hours spent each month by clinicians,
radiologists, nurses, and support staff chasing down films and reports. This translates to a huge amount of money.''
New York radiologist David Katz, MD, opened a freestanding imaging center called Next Generation Radiology in Great
Neck, Long Island, in August 1998. He designed it to take advantage of new technologies that would let him offer both better
patient care and service to referring physicians yet lower overall costs. In one instance, he was able to eliminate the need for
transcriptionists by using the voice recognition technology in Dynamic RadPlus, the radiology information system he uses to
manage patient information at Next Generation. In February, he opened a second center 40 miles away in Port Jefferson, New
York, and is in the process of implementing Dynamic WebSight.
Like Dr. Seidel, Dr. Katz sees value in using the web to share images and information with referring physicians and other
specialists. ''It does not simply reduce costs. It lets us improve quality and service. Instead of having to print reports for
referring physicians, WebSight will let them pull up those reports on a computer. About 20 percent of my senior population are
'snowbirds.' They spend the winter in Florida. With web-based technology, physicians who are across the country can
compare images and have the patient's history available to them wherever they are.''
In December, the company received FDA 510K clearance to market Dynamic PACSPlus version 2.0 for use by radiology
professionals to capture, store, distribute and display radiology images and information over local and wide area networks.
Dynamic supports more than 80 radiology customer sites in the U.S. and Canada. Customers include community and major
teaching hospitals such as UCLA Medical Center, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, and Orlando Regional Healthcare
System. Both the Medical College of Virginia and University of North Carolina hospitals recently chose Dynamic RadPlus for
their new radiology solution.
Dynamic Healthcare Technologies is a leading provider of mission-critical healthcare information systems for clinical services
departments and facilities. The company's product line, DynamicVision, is a suite of image-, voice-, and web-enabled systems
for anatomic pathology, radiology, laboratory, surgical services and health information management. By making it possible for
healthcare professionals to have access to the information they need about a patient anytime and anywhere, Dynamic's
information systems contribute to higher quality and more cost-effective delivery of care. Dynamic information systems are
installed in more than 600 customer locations across the United States and Canada. The company is headquartered in the
greater Orlando area and has a key operations and development center near Boston.
This press release contains forward looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited
to, certain areas beyond the Company's control with respect to future business events and other risks detailed from time to time
in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Maitland
Cynthia Sucher
Director, Corporate Communications
e-mail: csucher@dht.com
800.832.3020 |
