U.K. hospital installs Siemens clinical workflow server

Pilgrim Hospital in Lincolnshire, England has installed a Symbia S SPECT from Siemens Healthcare and Europe’s first Symbia.net Clinical Workflow Server, a client-server technology for remote processing and reading of nuclear medicine data.

Symbia.net gives staff access to processing and reading capabilities from two departmental PCs situated on a different floor to the scanning equipment, according to the company. The Symbia S at Pilgrim Hospital also benefits from an automatic quality control feature and automatic collimator changer integrated with the patient bed, added Siemens.

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