New Technology Unifies and Reduces Costs of Medical Image Management Systems

New image management software has been designed to work with any of the company’s medical image viewers and image sharing and storage systems to provide enhanced intelligence, powerful interoperability, and simplified integration capabilities.

TeraRecon (Foster City, CA, USA), a provider of enterprise medical image management solutions, debuted it’s iNteract+ solution at the 2014 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, held in February 2014 in Orlando (FL, USA).

“iNteract+ is a suite of intelligence and interoperability tools that augment existing systems and bring it all together within the viewer both efficiently and effectively,” said Jeff Sorenson, TeraRecon senior vice president. “Our primary objective is to support CIO’s in their mission to reduce the number of clinical systems that they support, while providing the ‘right information, at the right time, in the right place.’ TeraRecon is the first company to also achieve the ‘right view’ with the ‘right tools’ in order to optimize and information-enable these image-centric clinical workflows. Eighty-five percent of the 2013 US News & World Report Top Hospitals already employ TeraRecon solutions and are able to take advantage of simple and affordable upgrades which provide end-to-end image enablement and immediate cost savings.”

TC Zhao, PhD, TeraRecon’s chief technology officer, explained, “TeraRecon is well known for its powerful server-based image processing technologies. Much of our intellectual property and expertise is directly applied to solving the challenges of image-enabling entire health enterprises. Today, customers have too many image viewers and ironically too little access to their images. Very often systems such as RIS [radiology information systems], PACS [picture archiving and communication systems], and VNA [vendor-neutral archive] work well within radiology, but iNteract+ stands alone as the only solution capable of also achieving collaborative remote access with image sharing, DICOM [Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine] and non-DICOM viewing and incorporation of relevant clinical information all within one viewer.”

Lakshmi Lakshminarayan, TeraRecon chief executive officer, explained, “We are also seeing increased demand for our more powerful web-based diagnostic radiology viewers being used as an ‘overlay PACS viewer’ because of the integrated collaboration features, multimonitor support and fully-integrated 3D [three-dimensional] postprocessing capabilities. It is a testament to the power and sophistication of our iNteract+ solutions that we are able to meet the needs of the most demanding image-intensive specialty of radiology while simultaneously image enabling the rest of the entire healthcare ecosystem to improve patient care. While interoperability is the theme of most vendors, TeraRecon has brought focus on the ability to interact across the enterprise to deliver the clinical relevance and added value that physicians are seeking out of interoperability.”

TeraRecon is a developer of medical image management and viewing solutions. The company’s iNteract+ solutions enhance the clinical end-user experience provided by PACS, VNA, electronic medical record (EMR), and other mission-critical image processing and image acquisition systems. Often, it can eliminate the need for many disparate image transport, viewing, and storage systems while facilitating a smooth transition toward centralized administration of imaging resources. TeraRecon is a developer of image management, viewing, and post-processing solutions that allow physicians and clinicians to be more effectively informed. TeraRecon has a range of software technologies that are used throughout its real-time, enterprise-wide image processing solutions and real-time 3D volume-rendering engines.

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