Alexandria VA Pineville Healthcare System Becomes First VA Medical Center to Offer Unique Philips Ingenia MRI with in-bore Am...
August 16 2016 - 9:00AM
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New MRI suite designed for imaging and fast workflow, while
enhancing the patient experience
Alexandria VA Medical Center (VAMC) and Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) announced today that the VAMC’s
Pineville, LA facility will be the first VA site to adopt the
Philips Ingenia 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with in-bore
Ambient Experience technology. The state-of-the-art clinical suite
offers a soothing patient experience with imagery, sound and light,
helping to put patients at ease.
The Alexandria VAMC offers comprehensive acute and extended
healthcare in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical
medicine and rehabilitation, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics and
extended care. The VAMC serves a potential veteran population of
over 100,000 veterans, including community-based services at Fort
Polk, Jennings, Lafayette, Lake Charles and Natchitoches, as well
as an active patient roster of over 32,000 patients.
Unlike traditional X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging does not
use ionizing radiation to provide high quality images of the body,
and includes contrast detail of soft tissue and anatomic structures
like gray and white matter in the brain. While this has allowed
applications of MRI technology to expand in the areas of neurology,
oncology and cardiology, thus increasing demand for this modality,
patient anxiety and motion still remain challenges. An MRI scan
takes about 30 minutes, and nearly 35% of patients have
claustrophobia or some considerable level of anxiety about the
machine itself1, with about 20% requiring repeat scans due to
motion during the scan2.
The Philips Ingenia 1.5T in-bore Ambient Experience MRI
installation includes innovative elements to improve the patient
experience:
- Positive distraction - Minimal clutter,
visual imagery and programmable lighting provide a soothing
atmosphere with positive distractions for anxious patients.
- Personalization - Patients personalize
their experience by selecting a video theme and viewable from
inside the MRI from an easy-to-position mirror. Combined with sound
(through comfortable headphones), the experience becomes truly
immersive and soothing.
- Information - AutoVoice gently guides
patients through the procedure, announcing scan times and table
movements, providing information that helps put patients at
ease.
- Reduced acoustic noise - Noise is one
of the most uncomfortable parts of an MRI exam for many patients.
ComforTone automatically provides up to 80% noise reduction3.
In addition to giving the patients the perception of being in a
bigger space and putting them at ease, the Philips Ingenia 1.5T
offers enhanced workflow, high quality images and a fast,
comfortable patient set-up. The Philips Ingenia 1.5T offers the
iPatient platform, which is designed for routine and challenging
patients, including large patients, elderly and kyphotic. It offers
as much as a 30% improvement in throughput, hinged upon the unique
FlexCoverage Posterior coil that provides neck-to-toe coverage
without the need for any manual removal or repositioning.
FlexStream enables imaging with fewer coils and reduces coil
positioning and patient setup time. Now clinicians can perform
routine exams for brain, spine, knee, ankle and liver within less
than eight minutes with excellent image quality. In addition,
iPatient eliminates up to 50% of repetitive manual tasks4.
Moreover, high quality images and remarkable speed are possible
with dStream digital broadband MR architecture, offering up to 40%
more SNR5 and enhanced throughput with channel-independent RF
technology that makes upgrades easy.
“At Philips, we want to build a healthy society and achieve our
goal of improving the lives of three billion people by 2025, and in
order to do this we need to work with key organizations like the VA
on improving the patient experience, giving our veterans the care
they deserve and access to key diagnostic technologies like the
Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI,” said Joe Robinson, head of enterprise
and government solutions at Philips. “Through our long-standing
relationship with the VA we are looking at ways we can help them to
address veteran’s health issues, helping to take care of those who
have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.”
Also key for organizations such as the VA is the fact that the
Philips Ingenia 1.5T offers upgrades such as ScanWise Implant6, the
industry's first MRI guided user interface to simplify the scanning
of patients with MR Conditional implants like knee and hip
replacements, spine implants and pacemakers. The software helps
users streamline exams in this expanding healthcare area and
complements Philips' suite of diagnostic imaging solutions, helping
to improve hospital workflow and enhance the patient
experience.
About Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA)
is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people’s health and enabling better outcomes across
the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to
diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced
technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to
deliver integrated solutions. The company is a leader in
diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient
monitoring and health informatics, as well as
in consumer health and home care.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips’ health technology
portfolio generated 2015 sales of EUR 16.8 billion and employs
approximately 69,000 employees with sales and services in more than
100 countries. News about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
1 Meléndez, J. Carlos, and Ernest McCrank. "Anxiety-related
reactions associated with magnetic resonance imaging examinations."
Jama 270.6 (1993): 745-747.2 Andre, Jalal B., et al. "Towards
Quantifying the Prevalence, Severity, and Cost Associated With
Patient Motion During Clinical MR Examinations“ JACR (2015).3
Compared to doing the same scan without ComforTone4 *Compared to
Achieva5 *Up to 40% more SNR compared to Achieva as
non-digital/dStream system6 Initial availability on 1.5T
systems.
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