Viewing medical images traditionally requires dedicated workstations costing tens of thousands of dollars, which in turn are connected to proprietary picture archiving communications and storage (PACS) systems, costing millions of dollars more. In order to view medical images, physicians must literally drive or walk to one of these workstations.
However, recent advances in internet browser technologies are challenging these expensive and cumbersome proprietary approaches.
Medical images displayed in a web browser have traditionally been of lower quality and therefore had limited diagnostic utility. This technology is the first to provide physicians with the ability to drill down and view medical images, including movies, on a hand-held device.
Physicians can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results, Heart Imaging Technologies said.
