The PathoSys® Colorectal module will soon include support for polyp biopsies, polypectomies and local excisions.

This comes from a combination of the Royal College of Pathologists Local Exicision Dataset and the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Pathology Reporting pro forma.

Why?

The aim of this development is to give our users greater flexibility in the way they use PathoSys and reduce the administration involved in participating in the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

In addition users will gain the usual PathoSys® Enhanced Database Reporting benefits of standardised reporting and the ability to undertake rapid local audit.

Find out more …

For more information about this development contact us via the website.

The West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit coordinated the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries (UKACR) 2007 Annual Conference entitled:”Working Together To Meet Cancer Intelligence Needs”

About the Conference

Held on the 30th and 31st of October the conference venue was the International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham. This years conference was well attended with around 200 delegates and invited speakers including Professor Mike Richards, Mrs Julietta Patnick, Chris Carrigan and Dr Rashmi Shukla.

The role of AES Medical

AES Medical has installations of the PathoSys® cancer reporting and information management system in the UK covering approximately 4.2 million inhabitants. PathoSys® provides fast and accurate export of comprehensive pathology cancer data.

In practice this results in a reduced workload for the laboratory exporting the data and increased reliability, quality and accuracy for the recipient (Cancer Registry).

AES Medical works together wherever possible with the cancer registries of our customers and potential customers to facilitate these benefits, both to our customers and the registries.

For further information on PathoSys® and its benefits to laboratories/cancer registries please contact us either by telephone +44 (0) 1332 383 521 or via the website contact form.

HSD Händschke Software & Datentechnik GmbH the German partners of AES Medical have a new website. The English version of which will be available online at the end of January 2008. In addition HSD has also updated its marketing literature to reflect improvements to its products and showcase its continuing success in the steriles service market.

About HSD and its products

HSD successfully develops software solutions for technical and sterilisation departments in hospitals. HSD products have been installed worldwide more than 4000 times.

The HSD-ChargenDoc offers you a professional software solution for documentation, traceability, control, reporting and process optimisation throughout the lifecycle of sterile goods in hospitals and clinical practices.

The maintenance and facility management system HSDFM MT/BT-DATA is the efficient software solution for medical engineering, technical equipment and installations and building services.

The Cancer Reform Strategy builds on the progress made since the publication of the NHS Cancer Plan in 2000 and sets a clear direction for cancer services for the next five years. It shows how by 2012 our cancer services can and should become among the best in the world.

The role of AES Medical

The cancer reform strategy states that collecting and using improved information on different aspects of cancer services is central to delivering this strategy.

Some of the most important gaps in data collection are identified as follows:

-Information on histopathology and cytopathology is inadequately recorded;

-For those cancers covered by national clinical audits, returns are being made for only between one third and two thirds of incident cases

PathoSys® through electronic collection of Histopathology Cancer Data at the point of diagnosis provides NHS Trusts with a databased central store, which facilitates real time access for Cancer Services of the Royal College of Pathologists Dataset, NCASP clinical audit data and NHS Screening Programme data.

Pathology Laboratories are now expected to provide the Royal College of Pathologists Dataset information to the Cancer Registries.

PathoSys® has the capability of providing electronic export of all the Royal College of Pathologists dataset items for rapid processing by Cancer Services or the Registry.

1.The Cancer Reform Strategy – Section 8.14
2.The Cancer Reform Strategy – Section 8.17

AES Medical are pleased to announce that the development of the interface between the pathology reporting system PathoSys® and the iSoft iLab TP (Telepath) system is now complete. This will enable AES Medical to provide Telepath users with Cancer Dataset Reporting and Information Management that meets the standards set by the Royal College of Pathologists and NHS Cancer Standards.

A Significant Development

As previously reported this is a significant development, giving approximately 100 additional hospital sites throughout the UK and Ireland the chance to utilise the advanced reporting and data analysis capabilites of PathoSys® .

AES Medical now offers (and has running PathoSys® with) interfaces for all current iSoft Laboratory Information Management Systems .

This important new development is just one of several major achievements and activities made by AES Medical in 2007 including:

• 24% growth in the number of PathoSys® users.
• Development and update of several datasets revised by the RCPath , plus improvements based on user feedback.
  Formation of the PathoSys® User Group.
• 50% growth this year in the number of cancer histopathology reports being produced.
• We were invited to present at the Royal Society of Medicine, Leeds Information Center, Association of Clinical Pathologists, United Kindom Association of Cancer Registries and the Northern Ireland Cancer MDT Systems Workshop.

To Find Out More …

Please contact the AES Medical team to find out more information.

Seasons greetings to everyone involved in the PathoSys® projects from AES Medical.

The PathoSys® usergroup website has undergone its first major revision with support for video tutorials for PathoSys® users.

The video tutorials section aims to provide inspiration and online training to enable PathoSys® users to get the most from the system. The videos can be replayed and paused as required allowing users to learn at their own pace.

The online tutorial is aimed to supplement our one to one support and training services that we provide to all users. Users are able to rate and comment on tutorials and we welcome feedback on this latest addition to our user support package.

AES Medical are pleased to announce that following a recent purchase of their pathology reporting system PathoSys®. iSoft in conjunction with AES Medical is developing the Telepath interface. This will enable AES Medical to provide Telepath users with Cancer Dataset Reporting and Information Management that meets the standards set by the Royal College of Pathologists and NHS Cancer Standards.

About iLab TP (TelePath)

i.Laboratory TP (formerly TelePath) is a comprehensive single solution product for laboratories currently installed in approximately 100 hospital sites throughout the UK and Ireland.

A Significant Development

This exciting new development follows on from previous iSoft interfaces and it means that AES Medical provides cancer miniumum dataset reporting for all iSoft LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) products (past, present and into the future) this together with our other interfaces means that over 54% of the UK LIMS market can now be interfaced to PathoSys®. The PathoSys® system provides the pathology lab with state of the art reporting, searching, export and audit capability, whilst enabling Cancer Services for the first time to comply with all CPA and Peer Review targets in this area.

To Find Out More …

More information can be provided by the AES Medical team via the online contact form.

AES Medical has been invited to exhibit and present the pathology reporting system PathoSys® at the Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinical Information System (CMCIS) workshop being held at the at the Dunadry Hotel and Country Club. PathoSys® has a key role to play in supporting Cancer Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings by providing rapid and comprehensive access to the best quality histological data available.

Aim of the workshop

The workshop has been set up as an information gathering exercise and to provide clinical teams, information managers and other interested parties with the opportunity to:

• Review potential IT systems/suppliers for the collection of clinical information for cancer patients.
• Consider how information systems support the timely clinical decision making on the diagnosis and treatment of patients at cancer multi-disciplinary team meetings and communication with primary care and across secondary care.
• Review how information systems provide clinical datasets for clinical audit, cancer registry, cancer waiting times monitoring, research and education.
• To assist in the consideration of how an information systems may influence the redesign of the service for patients and support an effective clinical network across NI.

In addition to our PathoSys® online user group website, AES Medical this month in co-operation with Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (who are generously hosting the event) will have its first User Group meeting on the 23rd of October 2007.

Content of the meeting

We hope the meeting will allow our users to positively influence the direction of PathoSys® development.

In addition to discussing user requirements and how AES Medical can implements them, the user group meeting will provide a forum for users to share experiences and best practise in using the PathoSys® system.

Our Medical Director will be providing a presentation/workshop on clinical audit and AES Medical will be showing prototypes for the following cancer modules:

• Ovarian
• Lymphoma
• Penile
• CNS

The full agenda for the meeting can be found in the downloads section of the User Group website.

If you are interested and wish to know more about the usergroup please contact us via the online contact form

British Army Warrior (WR) Infantry Fighting Vehicle fleet in Afghanistan added to AES Machine Care Plus service

The Warrior has a top speed 46 miles per hour and is able to keep up with the Challenger 2 tank even over difficult terrain. Over 1000 have been built in various forms