Xiapu County Hospital sets a benchmark for the "Thousand Counties Project" imaging centers in China

As a bridge connecting urban and rural medical services, county-level hospitals in China not only meet the needs of community-level medical diagnosis and treatment, but also actively promote the balanced deployment of medical resources in counties.

Xiapu County Hospital, located in Ningde City of Fujian Province, China, is a secondary grade A general hospital and the most advanced medical institution in Xiapu County. Thanks to its efforts to strengthen itself by improving its team building and bringing in state-of-the-art medical devices over the past few years, Xiapu County Hospital has been successfully selected as a part of the National Healthcare Commission's List of County-Level Hospitals Requiring Comprehensive Competence Enhancement Under the "Thousand Counties Project," and has become a nationally-recognized hospital with the ability to provide tertiary hospital-equivalent medical care services.

Context

Founded in 1882, Xiapu County Hospital is a century-old hospital with a profound historical and cultural background and a modern medical technology team. As an important unit in the hospital, the Medical Imaging Department is armed with a wide range of advanced medical devices and a group of well-experienced diagnosticians. Since the inauguration of the new hospital, the department has been equipped with a full range of hardware, including 256-row ultra-high-end spiral CT, 3.0T MRI, DR and other advanced inspection equipment, as well as Barco's Nio Color 5.8MP, Coronis Fusion 6MP, Nio Fusion 12MP displays and 86-inch integrated screens. These are used to provide patients with excellent and comprehensive image acquisition as well as comfortable, fast and accurate diagnosis.

Challenge

Advanced digital technologies have been instrumental in modernizing and upgrading Xiapu County Hospital. To follow the trend of medical digitalization transforming and upgrading, the Medical Imaging Department of Xiapu County Hospital has deployed Barco Nio Gray 5.8MP, Coronis Fusion 6MP and Nio Fusion 12MP displays in its reading room, and an 86-inch integrated screen in its multi-functional imaging conference room.

With images of higher resolution and truer colors, these devices support physicians' accurate diagnosis, greatly improving the efficiency of imaging diagnosis and enabling physicians to be truly efficient. Cai Bing, Director of the Medical Imaging Department of Xiapu County Hospital, indicated that Barco's professional displays have better brightness and resolution than other previous displays, with stable and consistent color that meets medical standards.

Solution

With resolution and uniform brightness technology accurately paired, and consistent colors and grayscales, the 6MP-12MP displays allow physicians to read multi-device images on the screen at the same time without concerns about chromatic aberration and grayscale, making diagnosis more efficient and accurate. In particular, the Coronis Fusion 6MP enables multi-modal PACS imaging, with the ability to read color, grayscale and fusion modes simultaneously, including combining coronal views with smaller MIP and volumetric images on the same screen. This affords physicians a wider range of viewing perspectives and a more plentiful set of diagnostic information.

Nio Fusion 12MP displays allows PACS and breast imaging to be combined on a single workstation, greatly streamlining the configuration of multiple vertical displays on a physician's office desk. The high resolution of the 12MP enables smooth, bright and detailed presentation of multiple images on a single screen. It not only improves the efficiency of film reading, but also provides clearer technical support for physicians to discover early lesions.

Equipped in the conference room, the 8MP 86" Barco integrated medical screen is a reliable solution for multidisciplinary consultation, training and team meetings in hospitals, as it can clearly display the smallest details in compliance with DICOM image specifications.

Results

The "Thousand Counties Project" is an important national initiative to benefit people's livelihood. Powered by Barco imaging technology, Xiapu County Hospital has seen a significant boost in the deployment and utilization of medical resources across the county. As a professional department with competitive technical strength, the medical imaging department of the hospital can better satisfy the medical service needs of the people in the county, set up a benchmark for the imaging departments in county-level hospitals, and contribute to the high-quality development of the country's healthcare industry.