Mobile Access Device Delivers Images to iPhones, Blackberrys

A fast and convenient imaging application runs through a mobile device's browser with no additional software installation required.

AccelaRAD (Atlanta, GA, USA) introduced mobile.accelarad at the 95th Scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), held from November 29 to December 3, 2009, in Chicago, IL, USA, providing the power and convenience of handheld device access to images stored on its SeeMyRadiology dot com cloud-based imaging platform.

Authorized users simply log into the SeeMyRadiology website (please see related links below) where they are presented with access to the images they are authorized to view. All information is transmitted encrypted via https for security, and the system is fully Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant. "Today, physicians are more mobile than ever before within the healthcare environment and beyond. Medical images are a crucial part of how they practice medicine,” said Arman Sharafshahi, president of AccelaRAD. "However, image access on handheld devices has typically been difficult because of large image file size and frequent storage in multiple locations using different image management systems.”

Now, with SeeMyRadiology and mobile.accelarad (please see related links below), according to Mr. Sharafshahi, accessing images anywhere is simple across the entire spectrum of care, from radiologists and physicians to patients. After SeeMyRadiology users store images on the SeeMyRadiology cloud archive, they may be accessed by any authorized user who logs into the AccelaRAD website. "Universal image access is that easy with SeeMyRadiology dot com,” said Mr. Sharafshahi.

Mobile.accelarad's performance has been tested on the most recent iPhone and Blackberry product releases. Introduced in 2009, SeeMyRadiology is a complete Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that eliminates the barriers inherent in most picture archiving and communications system (PACS) solutions to image access across departments within the enterprise and among unrelated entities. Unlike other solutions, SeeMyRadiology is a true multitenant SaaS with built in encryption and compression for image routing, sharing, viewing, and archiving.

SeeMyRadiology provides high levels of data security and requires no expensive information technology (IT) maintenance. Once a study is easily uploaded into the SeeMyRadiology cloud, each of the four care-spectrum groups has access to the data and cloud tools and services customized to their needs.

Accelarad is a medical imaging cloud computing company. Its flagship product, SeeMyRadiology, is changing the way hospitals, physicians, and patients share, access and work with diagnostic images. Accelarad was the first in the imaging industry to provide cloud-computing solutions.

Related Links:
AccelaRAD
SeeMyRadiology.com