THE BRITISH HOSPITAL REACHES THE TOTAL SCANNING OF ITS DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DEPARTMENT As part of its policy of continuous improvement, the British Hospital in the coming days will reach the scanning of one hundred percent of the images obtained in different procedures and studies by the Department of Diagnostic Imaging Department. In the hands of technological progress, the old X-ray departments evolved until today to be departments or areas of Diagnostic Imaging, where it matters as much or more than the technology own equipment management as well as the images obtained by the various studies and procedures performed. The British Hospital has equipment managed under worldwide quality standards, resulting in a better service to users, as it helps the diagnosis and therapeutics, and provide total security in the storage of information. With the scanning of images obtained in mammography studies in the coming days, the hospital will reach the 100% of digital storage of images obtained in studies and procedures performed by the Diagnostic Imaging Department. So, mammograms will join X-rays, ultrasound, MRI, CT, angiography and other imaging studies performed in the hospital, the results are recorded and stored digitally. The scanning of the images obtained with these procedures represents a great improvement in terms of accessibility and security. Thus, for example, images and reports can be consulted by the doctor from remote as flooring, Operation Theater, clinic or emergency, and by two or more professionals at the same time. The images and the medical reports are also integrated to the electronic medical record. The Diagnostic Imaging Department at the British Hospital serves more than 7,000 users per month, said Dr. Nelson Di Trapani, Chief Medical Officer of the department. The captured images are digitally recorded with a code that relates each one to the relevant medical report. The picture quality and the ability to visualize in 3D has great potential for physicians that can extend, rotate, measure, compare images, analyze structures and appeal to other tools that did not have conventionally access, he said. To capture and store images it us used a medical grade image format called DICOM 3, which is a global standard, and in turn uses a system called PACS, which is another standard for the management of images, said Di Trapani.