Why PreFetch with PenFetch?
Save time and money. When the Radiologist opens a study to read, and the relevant prior images are not available, they have to wait while the images are retrieved from the PACS to the workstation. This wastes time and network resources, thus slowing down report turnaround time. Time is also wasted in the imaging room while the Technologists wait for priors to appear for review on their imaging workstations. Many facilities spend time and money on staff to manually look-up tomorrow’s patients, and select prior images to transfer to workstations. All this and more can all be automated with PenFetch. PenFetch automates the retrieval of prior studies from your PACS archives and routes them to your workstations. Automatically the relevant comparison images are moved in the evening to the workstation cache before your Radiologists or the Technologists arrive. This service automatically processes walk-ins during the day. How does it work? PenFetch queries a DICOM worklist for patients that ha
