Want to increase the return on your investment?

Your environment, as you know it, is undergoing many changes:

• increased number and range of exams needed to be accomplished in one room
• stricter requirements for exam methods
• new trends towards cost capping such as Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG)
• ever changing technology and complexity of patient exams and care

All these factors result in new and high demands on clinical workflow.  We have developed AXIOM Iconos R200 essentially with one objective in mind:

To optimize and increase your workflow!

Your economic potential is then extensively improved:

• Increased room utilization and patient throughput though shorter exam times
• New and improved features and options result in an increased competitiveness
• Reduce running costs
• Lower investment costs

As a solution provider, we always focus on all your requirements!  We offer you additional services that together with AXIOM Iconos R200 will cover all your needs:

• Managed Healthcare Services offer you a full range of services from process consulting services to the complete outsourcing of your IT department.
• Our partner, Siemens Finance & Leasing, delivers financial solutions tailored to your needs.
• To help you achieve maximum system availability, we also offer a wide range of technical service solutions.

Four main pillars work together in optimizing your workflow with AXIOM:

1. Connectivity: Intended to help eliminate communication barriers
2. Image Quality:  Brilliant images, improving your diagnostic confidence
3. Care:  High standards in radiation protection, without compromising image quality
4. Ease of Use:  A new and innovative concept for intuitive system operation

Connectivity

AXIOM Iconos R200 is designed to seamlessly integrate into your hospital information system.  The resulting optimized workflow provides you with unimagined freedom. 

Time consuming and labor intensive steps such as forwarding demographic patient data, examination results or clinical images are accomplished automatically through full DICOM functionality and easy patient registration via the HIS/RIS system.  This works to your advantage in many ways:

• Speed: Shorter examination times result in higher patient throughput and with it, opportunity for more patients.
• Reduced investment:  Our systems comply with the international DICOM standard.  This saves you having to buy additional converter components to connect to existing systems.
• High availability:  Direct remote diagnostic lines to our technical service network will make your system even more reliable during crucial examinations. 
  

Image Quality

The task of providing the highest image quality has always been our common goal. This provides you with the ability to make the best diagnosis. The economic benefits are evident:

• Less training necessary for staff. Intuitive and comprehensive user interfaces result in a shorter learning curve when using the system. Extensive organ programming means a simple press of the button for exam selection and less image post-processing, as you get those image results that you want to see, immediately.
• Less contrast medium spells relief for your finances and is better for your patients. Optimal image quality means fewer repeat exposures and even allows for using less contrast medium, enabling you to see more, with less:
• Shorter exam times mean an increase in patient throughput. High image quality leads to an accurate and fast diagnosis, enabling you to offer better and faster treatment.
• Patients pleased with your services will come back. Accurate diagnosis and suitable treatment also raise satisfaction with referring colleagues who will tend to use your services first.

Ease of Use

Well thought out and simple operating concepts enable you to concentrate on the examination and intervention. Image production and processing have become even more efficient. The operating concept is designed to decrease your overall exam steps, and to provide you with the optimum technique from the beginning.

• Minimum operating errors lower running costs. Special print functions allow for virtual filming, e.g. viewing of film layouts with post-processing functionality, before filming.
• Shorter throughput times can be achieved. Less operating errors avoid repeat examinations.
• Lower maintenance costs. Correct operation minimizes wear and tear and helps to keep your system in optimal condition.
• The user interface for the imaging system is the intuitive and widely known Windows™ standard, leading to shorter training for your staff and simplifying work. The learning curve is reduced, allowing for correct and optimized use of functions and features.
• Ease of use causes less stress in the workplace which results in better clinical quality.

Care

The well-being of patients is your main focus as well as ours. The amount of radiation exposure is a major concern of your patients, and of your employees as well. With the AXIOM Iconos R200 CARE package, we have implemented a range of highly innovative solutions for dose reduction that help to lower radiation exposure by up to 93% ! The resulting advantages are evident :

• The minimal patient dose makes your radiological services more attractive.
• You are optimally prepared for the future, where there will be continuing efforts to reduce permissible radiation exposure.
• The risk of liability cases due to excessive exposure is kept to a minimum