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Welcare Hospital becomes the first virtually film-less and paperless Radiology service in the UAE

  • United Arab Emirates: Monday, June 26 - 2006 at 08:01
  • PRESS RELEASE

The Welcare hospital, one of the leading private hospitals in the city is the first to install the GE's Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System /Picture Archiving Communication System solution (RIS/PACS).

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  • Welcare becomes 1st film-less paperless Radiology service in the UAE.
    Welcare becomes 1st film-less paperless Radiology service in the UAE.
The first of its kind in the region, the RIS/PACS solution now converts Radiology from a conventional film based department to a state of the art film-less environment, providing all clinicians, at any site, immediate access to any radiology images, combined with the reduction in waiting times for radiology reports, resulting in rapid patient diagnosis and treatment.

Equipped with the most up to date technology and managed by a team of internationally qualified and experienced healthcare professionals, the hospital installed the system with a vision to expand the digital environment to all its existing as well as future facilities. The system will efficiently link all Welcare facilities, providing easy access to expert opinions anywhere within the Welcare group. Labour intensive tasks, such as the transporting of x-ray films, image and report filing have now been eliminated, leaving more time for patient care related tasks. The hospital is already linked to the Welcare Ambulatory Care Center, located at a distance of 15 kilometers and this systems solution has provided many enhancements and benefits to an already established center of excellence.

Speaking about this systems upgradation, Mr. Vidur Kaushik, Chief Executive Officer of the Welcare World Health System said: "The Centricity RIS/PACS solution will be the core of the Hospital's film and paperless electronic medical record, the first of its kind system solution in the region. After installing the solution at our current flagship facility, we will expand it to all our future hospitals and clinics in the region. This state of the art technology, not only equips us to compete more efficiently in the current market, but also prepares us for the future of Radiology, by improving communications, eliminating costs and providing quality health services to all our customers".

"The establishment of a long term partnership with the Welcare Hospital is an exciting prospect, enabling both partners to realize high quality healthcare through modern, state of-the-art technologies today and in the future. Centricity RIS/PACS is more than a combination of discrete RIS and PACS functions. It integrates RIS and PACS data seamlessly into a user based solution for the Radiologist, Clinician and Radiographer"


said Jurgen Reyinger, General Manager at GE Healthcare Information Technologies Europe, Middle East and Africa.

GE provides all regional support from sales to service from a locally based hub in Dubai, which has a highly experienced team of experts, including clinical, technical and IT professionals. Centricity RIS/PACS is more than just implementing new monitoring networks or updating monolithic systems, this digital transformation in healthcare means completely rethinking and re-engineering the clinical process.
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About Welcare Hospital

Welcare Hospital, a part of Welcare World Health Systems, is one of the UAE's leading private hospitals, offering international calibre, multi-specialty healthcare in a caring and friendly environment. The 120-bed facility in Dubai offers more than 14 specialized departments, including Cardiology, Oncology, Maternity, Urology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology and Pulmonology.

Combining Eastern hospitality with Western expertise, Welcare is committed to holistic patient care that ensures a concerned and caring bedside manner from all who interact with the patient and evidence-based medicine that means diagnosis and treatment is focused on each patient's individual symptoms, responses and needs.

Welcare World Health Systems, the healthcare consultancy and management arm of the Dubai-based Varkey Group, manages Welcare Hospital, Welcare Ambulatory Care Center and Emirates Diagnostic Clinic. Welcare World is developing several other facilities and initiatives, both within the UAE and regionally, including the 210-bed City Hospital and the 150-bed Creek Hospital Dubai, both in Dubai Healthcare City.

About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE). World Wide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

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Joyce Baz
MS&L PR, Dubai
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