With the new year upon us, we would like to take the opportunity to wish a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our partners and clients and review the major milestones for the company this year.

Users have recently benefitted from a number of additions and enhancements to HL7Connect; Kestral’s full-featured HL7 messaging interface. HL7Connect enables communication between HL7-compliant applications; removing the need for applications to interface directly.

Kestral is pleased to announce that the second phase of our important Midlands project has been completed at Waikato District Health Board (Waikato DHB) and the facilities are now live.

Kestral implementation staff recently completed the installation of Karisma at Healthscope's brand new Imaging Diagnostics Australia site at Allamanda Private Hospital on the Gold Coast.

Kestral is pleased to announce that our own Grahame Grieve is the 2009 recipient of the HISA Don Walker Award for Effectiveness in recognition of his development work on common datatypes within the HL7, ISO and CEN communities. 

Kestral and Philips Healthcare have recently joined forces for the implementation of Karisma and iSite PACS into the Medical Imaging department of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.

Kestral recently launched Karisma’s latest feature, the Business Report Studio, at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) conference in Adelaide. RANZCR, now in its 60th year, was created to enhance the knowledge of contemporaries in the fields of Radiology and Radiation Oncology.

Kestral is pleased to announce that we will be demonstrating Karisma’s brand new Business Report Studio at the upcoming RANZCR 59th Annual Scientific Meeting.

Karisma Go-Live was recently completed for startup radiology practice Coffs Coast Medical Imaging (CCMI) in NSW. Staff at CCMI worked with Kestral to implement an integrated Karisma-Inteleviewer system to operate throughout the facility.

Located in Midland, Western Australia, InSight Clinical Imaging is the latest practice to implement a Karisma system. Karisma training, implementation and configuration were carried out at the site by qualified Kestral staff.

For more than 20 years, rural communities on the southern coast of NSW have been provided with comprehensive imaging services via the outstanding experience and resources of South East Radiology.