3Dnet’s star performers this month!

We appreciate all of our users for using 3Dnet, so as this newsletter progress’ we will highlight a selected few of our users just to show our gratitude.

Dr. Qaiser Malik, one of our star users, logged into 3Dnet 307 times. Dr. Qaiser Malik is a consultant Musculoskeletal radiologist based at the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation. He uses the Biotronics3D platform to report on patients. Through the power of 3Dnet he is able to report for InHealth , London Imaging Centre & Renaissance Imaging. Dr. Qaiser is an executive committee member of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists and he is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at UCL Medical School, in 2015 he was awarded the prestigious ‘Top Teacher Award’ He has provided expert imaging for elite athletes including international cricketers, premier league and championship footballers and also top 10 tennis players.

Dr. Laurence Ginder, one of our star users, logged into 3Dnet 146 times. Dr. Laurence Ginder is a consultant Musculoskeletal radiologist based at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust. He uses the Biotronics3D platform to practice in the Teleradiology arena for DMC Imaging, a remote radiology company. Through the power of 3Dnet he is able to report for In-Health & London Imaging Centre as well as sub-specialist reporting for a number of NHS Trusts through DMC Imaging. Dr. Laurence underwent specialist training in musculoskeletal radiology and MSK interventions at University Hospital of North Midlands and was the Fellow in Musculoskeletal Radiology at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopedic Hospital. He is a member of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists. He undertakes NHS and private practice work based in and around the West Midlands. Find out more about him and DMC Imaging at http://www.dmcimaging.co.uk

Dr. Dhiren Shah, one of our star users, logged into 3Dnet 111 times. Dr. Dhiren Shah is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist based at the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. He uses the Biotronics3D platform to report on patients. Through the power of 3Dnet he is able to report for Vista Diagnostics & The Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth. Dr. Shah is fellowship-trained in musculoskeletal radiology from Oxford and Toronto. He is a member of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists. He undertakes NHS work and private practice in and around London, with interests in sports and spinal imaging. Dr. Shah was one of the MSK radiologists working at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and 2015 European Games in Baku.

Affidea case study

In 2014 we began to provide Affidea with our cutting-edge service, 3Dnet. Affidea are the largest and most successful European medical service provider. Affidea operate across 14 European countries including: Croatia; Italy; Portugal. Affidea employ more than 3,000 medical professionals to work across their 157 medical centers which include: radiological diagnostics; clinical laboratories; cancer treatment services.

In the beginning Biotronics3D had a vision of which “3Dnet is used by the Affidea Clinics as the technological backbone to share data, functionality and knowledge, by simplifying collaboration, and by taking medical imaging from order to reporting faster and more cost efficient”. We offered Affidea three simple solutions to overcome their problems: Create a more connected system and increase productivity and efficiency; Consolidate Affidea’s ICT infrastructure and extend the life of your PACS; Use online tools to increase the relationship with referring doctors and patients.We were able to create a more connected system and increase productivity and efficiency by: we negated the need to upgrade individual technology, which can be time consuming; we then made it possible for security, regulations compliance, backup systems and disaster recovery to be managed in a centralized fashion; consolidating and storing patient information in the cloud instead of multiple PACS silo’s, which means doctors can quickly access and share images and information across departments, organisations and even borders enabling a comprehensive picture of a patient’s healthcare therefore enabling better healthcare.The next solution we put into practice was the ability to consolidate Affidea ICT infrastructure and extend the life of their PACS we were able to do this by       : migrating them over to the cloud, this means they have begun saving significant money over time; 3Dnet is able to work alongside existing PACS and make it more efficient, by 3Dnet becoming the thread that ties all PACS together by consolidation, therefore increasing storage volume, avoiding migration for new PACS and upgrades, providing backup and business continuity; in the clinics that had no PACS 3Dnet was able to offer PACS and much more, also saving Affidea more over time.Finally the last solution we put into place was the use of online tools to increase the relationship with referring doctors and patients. This was accomplished by giving integrating three portals into the Affidea site: a diagnostic portal for radiologists and specialists; a referential portal for referring doctors and other doctors “on the go”; a patient portal for patients. Each one of these portals had different aims depending on who they were there for. The diagnostic portal was for radiologists and specialists and therefore there is automated delivery of diagnostic cases with the option of notification and all the advanced diagnostic functionality with no software having to be installed. The referential portal was for referring doctors and other doctors and therefore physicians have access to mobile and reduced diagnostic functionality “on the go” via smartphone. Also being images being archived in the cloud patients can provide referrers their studies without having to deliver them with a CD. The third portal, the patient portal, was aimed for the use of patients. We done this by: enabling patients the ability to log in and access their data where ever they were; it also kept data fluid and flexible.

We put all of these solutions into action by simply deploying the 3Dnet grid.  This made it transparent to the user, service delivery then began to oscillate between local servers and a centralized data center, syncing between them, ensuring an unbroken user experience regardless of variations and inefficiencies of local internet connections. We believe we have accomplished our original vision of becoming the technological backbone for Affidea.

“Using 3Dnet, Affidea was able to create a distributed, yet very tightly connected imaging network, even spanning geographical borders. This operational convergence led to increased organisational efficiencies, reduced operational costs and it drives increased referrals for us. 3Dnet is now one of our key ingredients for our business growth.”

Ian Lennon, CIO, Affidea group.

Fifteen thousand reasons to be happy

Dear 3dnet aficionado,

2016 was a landmark year for all of us; it was the year that our 3dnet community of users reached 15,000.  In numerology the number 15 is the number of family and harmony, the number most likely to be in the forefront of innovation. We believe that this is how our 3dnet community should be perceived, a family of likely-minded individuals striving for innovation in medical imaging. This is why 15,000 was such an amazing and intriguing milestone!

Today the size of our community is 15,000 users, and our target is to double that by the end of 2018. Our users are spread across 12 countries and work at around 500 organisations using our system 24/7. These companies include huge NHS networks in the UK with 100’s of Radiologists all the way down to one clinic in South Africa with two Radiologists.

Our community, 3Dnet, a network of imaging data and clinical skills, is very powerful because it consolidates in one place such vast and tacit clinical knowledge. This is the reason it is becoming fast an essential part of clinical management to organisations of different sizes. It represents collective capabilities that are essential to health organisations as it enables them to improve business and clinical processes and outcomes.

And this is our mission, vision and pledge to the clinical community we serve: Disease management and medical imaging is unlikely to become simpler. But our company will rise to this challenge by focusing on social, institutional and technical support that helps make distributed clinical collaborations possible and also helps organisations break the vicious cycle of the post-PACS era of commoditised medical imaging and big data.

A new module is in the works!

A Vessel Analysis Module is on the way: 

All of us here at Biotronics3D believe that we owe everyone of our customers a better experience on 3Dnet and therefore we’re continually looking at what we can bring to our community. So we are excited to announce our latest project, The Vessel Analysis module. This module will be available through SaaS worldwide to all of our users, yet there is no current release date. Our Vessel Analysis CTA module will allow our users the ability to visualize the vessels throughout the body. This module will allow :

• Fast, real time stenosis and aneurysm measurement for procedure planning for stents, angioplasty and AAA endografts with diameter mapping the entire length of the vessel.
• Ability to show post procedure scans in comparison mode to monitor any restenosis or movement of devices, post placement.
• Vessel calcium and plaque analysis for identifying potential issues and landing sites for stents and endograft placement planning.

Our Vessel Analysis CTA module will combine the best platform, the most effortless and also the most accessible for this market.

• Rapid. 3Dnet Vascular maintains the same unique core design as the other suite applications optimizing memory and computer resource utilization for extremely quick rendering of the largest study volumes, permitting rapid assessments and reporting.
• Effortless. 3Dnet Vascular gives you total performance without compromise, according to the way you work. Therefore it is effortless, depending on if you like the interface rich, or basic.
• Superior. 3Dnet Vascular permits quick look identification of anomalies that may correspond to aneurysms, calcifications and stenosis.

And much more..

Meet the team – Commercial Director

This month we will be introducing you to our Commercial Director – Ronald Greeff!

Watching comedy sit-coms may affect your life! Ron managed to sit through all 11 series of ‘Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ over the Easter bank holiday. Chocolate and TV doesn’t sound to bad, but he sure does deserves it. Ron has been instrumental in the expansion of 3Dnet by leading and setting an example on the rest of the employee’s, whilst having sleepless nights from his new born boy, Harrison. He likes to think he is a technological genius, whilst being interested with drones and virtual-reality technology yet he has only just discovered faceswap…  Ron hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. He came over to England at the age of 16 and is now living near Romford, Essex. Although you’d never catch him out on a Friday night in the Sugar Hut. In 08’ Ron graduated from Bangor University with a BSC in Molecular Biology and in 09’ he graduated with a MBA in business management, which he excelled in. Impressive if you ask me. But why not find out for yourself?