Medical Imaging Access, Archiving Service Provides Significant Benefits for All Healthcare Constituents

A groundbreaking medical imaging access, archiving, and collaboration service has been developed that benefiting patients, hospitals, radiologists, and referring physicians regardless of affiliation.

SeeMyRadiology dot com was introduced at HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2009 in Chicago, IL, USA, in April 2009. Imaging patients can utilize SeeMyRadiology dot com to create their own personalized libraries of exams in a centralized location. Furthermore, they can share their images easily and securely with physicians of their choosing. Patients will enjoy full ownership of their digital medical images in a "media-less" environment with convenient access and built-in portability.

For hospitals and imaging businesses, SeeMyRadiology dot com supports streamlined cross-enterprise image communication with other imaging businesses and referring physicians. This streamlined process eliminates the red tape of hardcopy image sharing and the time-consuming and cumbersome production of CDs. The application integrates with any picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and represents a major step towards the comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) crucial to the new administration's healthcare vision. Furthermore, SeeMyRadiology dot com can be branded with an imaging site's name to enhance recognition, while offering increased profits through a unique optional revenue sharing model. For physicians, whether specialists, family practitioners, or radiologists, SeeMyRadiology dot com provides 24/7, secure, and efficient access to patient medical images from any source, without cumbersome CDs or film. SeeMyRadiology dot com's strict adherence to security protocols eliminates the need for virtual private networks (VPNs).

According to SeeMyRadiology dot com pilot user, Phil Larkin, PACS operations manager for Ohio State University Medical Center (Columbus, USA), "We have already documented that SeeMyRadiology dot com and its instant electronic image sharing played a key role in saving the lives of six patients. Without SeeMyRadiology dot com, our clinicians would not have had access to critical medical images to make the appropriate clinical decisions. By gaining timely access to these images, we were able to significantly impact outcomes."

"The field of medical imaging has made enormous strides over the past decade to move into a fully digital environment. Most providers and imaging businesses have deployed digital modalities and PACS, yet we still transfer films and CDs between organizations and patients. By deploying SeeMyRadiology dot com, the last link in the chain will be closed, and will provide all constituents--including patients--with a more comprehensive and efficient means of image access and sharing," commented Willie Tillery, cofounder and AccelaRAD CEO.

Developed in collaboration with The Ohio State University Medical Center and Piedmont Hospital (Atlanta, GA, USA), SeeMyRadiology dot com also includes a toolkit enabling standards-based image integration with a full range of EMRs and personal health records (PHR) systems.

"Think about the transformation of personal photography during the past 10 years. The market quickly progressed from 35-mm film to digital images saved on CDs and PCs and has now evolved to web-based image storage and sharing services," commented Mike Youmans, senior vice president of AccelaRAD. "SeeMyRadiology dot com introduces that paradigm into medical imaging, and for techno-savvy consumers, the evolution is completely natural."

"In most other medical specialties, patients are not asked to hand carry their exams from imaging facility to physician," added Mr. Tillery." The process is slow, awkward, and prone to human error. Radiology has been stuck in media-dependant workflow for too long. Now, SeeMyRadiology com has created a better way."

SeeMyRadiology dot com is a new product offering of AccelaRAD (Atlanta, GA, USA), a developer of Software as a Service- (SaaS)-based medical imaging.

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