In December 1999 three Swiss hospitals - the University Hospital Zurich, the Winterthur Canton Hospital and the Triemli Municipal Hospital - agreed to launch a joint PACS project.

This project was named TriPACS and is aimed at bringing the latest PACS technology to the radiology departments of those three hospitals, which conduct in total about 270.000 radiological exams per year. The TriPACS system will allow these hospitals to digitally view, exchange and store their medical images. The project will enhance the exchange of clinical information among the three hospitals, thereby optimizing their workflow and enabling better patient care.

Within the framework of this program, the hospitals were looking for the best possible, automated solution for the distribution of radiological image and report data to external referring physicians - a solution that is not only highly compatible and very intuitive but is also offered at a good price/performance ratio.

They have found the perfect solution in the iQ-VIEW software. 

A great advantage of the iQ-VIEW application was its integrated patient CD burning module with which patient CDs can easily be created and given to referring physicians. An iQ-LITE Viewer can be burned on every CD so that a referring physician can conveniently view the images and reports put on the CD. The three Swiss hospitals were very satisfied with the powerfulness of those viewers, with their stability and easy and intuitive user interface. It was therefore decided to apply the iQ-LITE Viewer as common viewing application for the patient CDs created by the hospitals.

The hospitals use a version of the iQ-LITE viewing software that was specially adapted to serve the unique TriPACS environment. The desired patient CDs are produced fully automatically by means of a CD burning robot and additional software. The interplay of both hard- and software makes it now easily possible to create CDs including the iQ-LITE viewer to display both radiological image data and structured reports with the medical findings. Further burning stations using iQ-LITE on CDs will follow soon.