GE Healthcare Unveils Next-Gen Fixed X-ray System Definium Tempo to Reduce Burnout and Improve Workflow and Productivity for Overburdened Radiology Departments
GE Healthcare has launched the Definium Tempo, a new digital X-ray system aimed at assisting radiologists and technologists. This system enhances operational efficiency by automating workflow tasks, significantly reducing physical workload while allowing technologists more time with patients. Key features include Auto Positioning, Intelligent Workflow Suite, and Helix Image Processing 2.1, aimed at improving image quality and reducing errors. The system addresses common challenges faced by radiology departments, including high ‘repeat and reject’ rates, while promoting patient care.
- Launch of the Definium Tempo X-ray system enhances operational efficiency.
- Automation features significantly reduce workload for technologists.
- Improved image quality through advanced Helix Image Processing 2.1.
- Reduces high 'repeat and reject' rates, improving clinical operations.
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- A “personal assistant” that provides automation and support to technologists – reducing physical workload and improving operational efficiency, while maximizing a technologist’s time at patient’s bedside to help deliver the best patient care possible.
- Drives efficiency, reduces errors and decreases variability between imaging sessions and patients through Auto Positioning, Intelligent Workflow Suite, high resolution FlashPad HD detectors and advanced Helix Image Processing 2.1 software.
Definium Tempo is designed to work with the technologist to operate efficiently and provide consistent, high-quality images, while allowing for more quality time with the patient. Acting much like an in-room ‘command center,’ the Definium Tempo’s tube-mounted console provides all the functionality needed for patient selection, protocol selection, technique modification and positioning setup - enabling the technologist to finish all exam setup and positioning work without having to leave the patient’s side. Automated workflows help start an exam and additional features, such as Auto Positioning, Auto Centering and Auto Tracking, automate the positioning of system components to maximize overall ergonomic operation for the technologist, while also helping to improve overall patient experience.
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“I’ve been a technologist for over 17 years and using this system has been unlike anything I’ve experienced before – it’s a person inside the room with you at all times, it’s like you’re never working alone – it’s like a second technologist…” said
To address ‘repeat and reject’ rates that can negatively impact day-to-day clinical operations, the Definium Tempo is also equipped with features to deliver consistent images and help lower variability in patient positioning and image quality. Enabled by live streaming video and 3D depth cameras, the Intelligent Workflow Suite5 combines computer vision, video analytics and precision engineering to provide a collection of workflow enhancement tools formed by seamlessly combining the 3D video camera, computer vision and video analytics to help address positioning errors, poor image quality due to incorrect patient habitus selection and ambiguities during image reading due to unique conditions. The Intelligent Workflow Suite includes Position Assist, Technique Assist, and Patient Snapshot to help increase patient satisfaction by avoiding image retakes; produce more consistent images to increase technologists’ productivity; and improve clinical confidence by avoiding radiologist follow-up during diagnosis.
Additional features include Helix™ 2.1 Advanced Image Processing6 of quadruple resolution images provided by FlashPad HD detectors that produce images with exceptional anatomical detail and magnification at low dose, while simultaneously reducing electronic noise to improve patient experience.
“The Definium Tempo system has been an impressive addition to our department,” says Dr.
For more information on GE Healthcare’s new Definium Tempo system and features, visit gehealthcare.com.
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