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800 users, 1.3 million patients, 30 million images –
one Planmeca Romexis database
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Copy Hanna Lipiäinen & Aleksandra Nyholm DENTAL care generates enormous amounts of patient data
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both over time and across multiple locations. A case in point is
the public health care district of the Stockholm County Council
in Sweden, one of the largest health care providers in Europe
which serves approximately 2.3 million citizens spread over
26 municipalities. Today, it is also the single largest Planmeca
As the volumes of digital patient Romexis customer, housing a centralised Romexis database with
data increase in dentistry, so dental images accessed by close to 800 simultaneous users across
does the need for intelligent digital the organisation.
solutions for image handling and One database – millions of images
archiving. Planmeca’s uniquely Planmeca has had a long history with the health care district of
comprehensive Planmeca the Stockholm County Council (or “Region Stockholm”), dating
Romexis software platform all the way back to the 1990s and Planmeca Dimaxis™, the
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can flexibly adapt to the imaging imaging software platform that was to pave the way for Romexis.
Since then, the district’s nearly one hundred databases for patient
and diagnostic needs of clinics of images have been successfully migrated into a single centralised
any size – as evidenced by two database – a completely unique solution enabled only by
textbook examples from Sweden. Planmeca Romexis.
The council’s experience with Planmeca Dimaxis
made introducing the centralised Romexis database fairly
straightforward. Today, the single server contains more than
30 million images from the district’s 1.3 million dental patients,
adding up to several terabytes of patient information. All efficiently
in one Romexis database.
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