Toshiba designs embrace open network standards to facilitate easy integration in the widest variety of network environments, complying with DICOM and IHE standards to assure standards-based communications protocol between network systems.

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Aquilion 64 — IHE Integration

Toshiba has voluntarily implemented the communications of its medical imaging systems with the IHE initiative.

• Uses existing standards to define communications (DICOM, HL7 and web services) compatibility to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information

• IHE integration improves patient care by harmonizing healthcare information exchange and provides a common standards-based framework for seamlessly passing health information among care providers
• IHE enhances the quality of patient care resulting in safety through the reduction of medical errors, savings through lower implementation costs and more efficient workflow
• IHE Integration Statements

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Aquilion 64 — DICOM

The Aquilion comes standard-equipped with six major DICOM Service Classes to reduce examination time and increase throughput.

• DICOM CD-R and DVD-RAM — Provides long-term storage media for valuable image data. During re-examination, physicians can access stored images for reference.
• DICOM Print — Exports images to DICOM-compliant printers. A virtual film function lets the operator preview the final print and adjusts its composition and presentation for optimal print quality.
• DICOM Storage Commitment, Query/Retrieve — Operators can archive images to a network and retrieve images from past examinations for review and as reference map images.
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• DICOM Conformance Statements