Jack van Wijk, MagnaView Chief Scientific Officer, has been granted the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2013 at the Eurographics conference in Girona.

Eurographics is the European association for computer graphics research, and this award is given each year to an individual in computer graphics to highlight outstanding technical achievements. The jury granted him the award for his contributions to flow visualization, information visualization and mathematical visualization, including the introduction of new visual metaphors using techniques from computer graphics and geometric modelling.

Over 222.222 students in Cum Laude, and the number is still growing steady. With the Montessori College in Nijmegen and alle schools of the Stichting Carmel, Cum Laude is the Business Intelligence application that supports over 25 percent of all secondary schools in the Netherlands in finding the answer to all their questions.

Martijn Wijffelaars, product manager at MagnaView: "At MagnaView for all product that we develop, such as Cum Laude for secondary education, we listen very carefully to our customers and the questions they have. This explains the continuous growth of Cum Laude. We are constantly focused on the use of Cum Laude, on how it fits in the daily operations, and on the way users can benefit most of it. We use this information to continuously improve new releases."

Since 2012, Magister schools are also able to use Cum Laude, and we expect that many schools will be attracted to our open Cum Laude philosophy. In addition, all users can expect additonal reporting options for financial en personnel information. In this area, schools have great need for better steer information, and for finding an answer to the extending government regulations.

Wijffelaars:"Last but not least, our MagnaView software garanties simplicity and user friendlyness. Characterics that are values by all of our users."

Cum Laude bereikt mijlpaal van 222.222+ leerlingen

Meer dan 222.222+ leerlingen in Cum Laude, en dat aantal blijft gestaag groeien. Met het Montessori College te Nijmegen en alle scholen binnen de Stichting  Carmel, is Cum Laude voor méér dan 25 % van de VO-instellingen in Nederland de applicatie die scholen helpt om een antwoord te vinden op de eisen die aan scholen gesteld worden.

Martijn Wijffelaars is Product Manager bij MagnaView: “Bij alle producten die MagnaView ontwikkelt, zoals Cum Laude voor het VO, kijken we heel goed naar vragen die leven bij klanten en naar hun omgeving, en dat verklaart de blijvende groei van Cum Laude. We zijn er ook voortdurend op gespitst om te zien hoe Cum Laude in de praktijk van de scholen, en bij het dagelijks gebruik, de best mogelijk bijdrage levert, en dat verwerken we in nieuwe releases."

Ook Magister-gebruikers zijn sinds 2012 in staat om Cum Laude in gebruik te nemen, en we verwachten dat een groot deel daarvan zich aangesproken voelt door de open Cum Laude filosofie. Alle gebruikers kunnen daarnaast in dit jaar verwachten dat ze ondersteuning kunnen krijgen voor personele en financiële informatie. Op dat gebied hebben scholen grote behoefte om beter te gaan sturen, en een antwoord te geven op de toenemende eisen van overheid en politiek, zoals die naar voren komen via bijvoorbeeld Functiemix en Opbrengstenkaart.

Wijffelaars: "Last but not least staat onze eigen MagnaView-software borg voor eenvoud en gebruiksvriendelijkheid, en ook daarvan weten we dat het door gebruikers wordt gewaardeerd.”

Due to interest that has much higher than expected, a second Eindhoven session will be added to the national Cum Laude demo tour.

To ensure close interaction with and between the participants, the number of attendants was limited: the sessions features a general introduction, demonstrations and a panel discussion. Given the short term in which the seats for Eindhoven were filled, we cannot yet provide information on the next session: this will be provided in due course.

Other sessions are planned for Hoogeveen, Utrecht and Den Haag.

More information about the Cum Laude demo tour can be found at www.magnaview.nl/cumlaudedemo (page in dutch).

Additionele Eindhoven sessie in Cum Laude tour

Vanwege een veel grotere interesse dan verwacht, wordt een tweede Eindhoven sessie toegevoegd aan de nationale Cum Laude Demo tour. Om best mogelijke interactie te verzekeren met en tussen de deelnemers, was het aantal deelnemers beperkt: de sessies bestaan uit een algemene introductie, demonstraties, en een panel discussie.

Gezien de korte tijd waarin deze sessie is volgelopen, is er nog geen informatie over de volgende sessie: deze volgt spoedig.

Andere sessies zijn gepland voor Hoogeveen, Utrecht en Den Haag.

Meer informatie over de Cum Laude demo tour is te vinden op www.magnaview.nl/cumlaudedemo.

• Search functions in filters making it much easier to select and filter the correct data.
• Local snapshots. Now, users are able to save and local snapshots. This enables them to create snapshots with a specific goal, for instance annual reports.
• Normalized attributes. Since Pathos is built on a national system, all values ever entered in the pathology databases for the attribute ‘Specialism’ are recorded. MagnaView has normalized all these values (>10.000) to 23 categories.
• Extra protocol modules. Mamma carcinoom totaal, urine and placenta are new in Pathos 4.1.

First reactions from the users are very positive. Currently, 33 laboratories are using Pathos as their BI solution. Which is over 50% of the entire market.

MagnaView’s Pathos product is broadening its role for quality assurance in clinical pathology labs in the Netherlands. To allow Pathos users and others to discuss current development in quality assurance, a masterclass was held in cooperation with Palga, the pivotal organization for information on pathology in the Netherlands.

Over 25 participants, partly pathologist, partly quality assurance officers, discussed development in the sector with four speakers providing introductory information.

The general perspective about data, indicators and the way these play a role in labs was discussed by MagnaView business consultant Patrick Riemers.

Bart Lelie, pathologist and lab manager at Zorgsaam, presented the role of quality assurance in his lab, and stressed the importance of cultural change to achieve improvements.

Arjen van de Pol (Stichting Palga) discussed the use of Protocols in pathology. Stichting Palga has the ambition to implement 15 new protocols in the short term.

Lastly, Joost Oudejans (Chairman of a working group of the Pathologists’s professional association) talked about performance indicators for accreditation and peer review.

Pathology in the Netherlands has a unique information sharing infrastructure through Palga. MagnaView’s Pathos product is broadly used in this community, and the audience in the meeting put forward a range of requests to extend Pathos’ functionality to address future quality assurance challenges.