Solutions for the specialists

The health care sector faces a number of challenges which will only be exacerbated in the future:

• Shortage of specialists.
• Increase in the demand for services as the population ages.
• Control of the spending by autonomous communities.

ITC's offer the possibility of:

• Democratising medical tests with:
  • Open systems that reduce the power of medical equipment manufacturers, e.g.: use of DICOM and HL7 protocols in PACS.
  • Remote acces to medical tests.
  • The revolution of digital imaging in the medical field.
  • Interoperability of heterogeneous systems.

• Increasing the productivity of specialist by:
  • Using CAD systems.
  • Digital repositories for rapid searching and effective analysis of tests.
  • Reduciing the travel time of health care professionals.
  • Service-sharing by hospitals to cover a larger geographical area by specialist.

• Improving the quality of health care::
  • Stored digitalised tests avoid repeat testing.
  • Assistance of information systems to diagnose and handle stored tests.
  • Increased cooperation among specialist; faster and more effective diagnosis.