Revealed: Aussie IT Secrets

December 13, 2005: The winners of the Secrets of IT Innovation Awards 2005 Competition 2005 will be announced on the 14th of December in Sydney by The Minister for Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan.

Sponsored by the Department, Cisco Systems, Dell and centricMinds, the competition features Australian IT in the areas of: Commerce, Security, Communications, Learning, Health and Entertainment and Industrial.

Healthy Innovation
Sydney-based Polartechnics is a featured finalist with its MediScan patient-record capture and management system. According to Polartechnics CEO, Victor Skladnev, "In simple terms, MediScan captures high quality images which can be manipulated by the doctor or surgeon, with relevant clinical information and annotations stored in a separate layer over these images."

In short, R2 offers ICT operations the opportunity to ensure that their existing Windows-based infrastructure, training and knowledge do not have to change in the fact of sometimes faster, smaller and, of course, cheaper by dint of their Open Source nature, tools. Also, why would you migrate to Linux if your Windows servers are already capable of many of the key selling factors that the Open Source solution provides?

Accepting data from a variety of input devices including endoscopes, ultrasound, and X-ray machines via RGB, S-video and composite video connections, MediScan is capable of capturing mpeg-2 video for later play out to DVD for a variety of professional review processes.

The software frontend is also innovative in that it has been written to enable medical annotation of images using a variety of templates for a variety of specialist areas.

IDM will be reporting back on the IT Secrets of Innovation 2005 Awards tomorrow.

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