title: The status of the GE approach to the digital catheterization laboratory.
abstract: The digital cardiac catheterization laboratory has become a reality. The cardiac catheterization community has embraced the DICOM standard as the vehicle for filmless archiving of cardiac angiographic studies. General Electric Medical Systems (GE) provides a completely scaleable offering for filmless archiving with the GEMnet product line. The GEMnet philosophy: practicality, scaleability, reliability and upgradeability. Practicality is conforming to standards. Standards in imaging data format and communications. Scaleability of a system configuration maximizes the dollar spent to match the right system to the patient volume of a department. Reliability is a fault tolerant design, redundancy of data to insure system up-time and advanced system diagnostics to speed service time. Upgradeability is keeping pace with the evoluation of new technologies to take advantage of increases in performance and reductions in price.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Herro
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D016250:Compact Disks; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems