Enterprise Imaging Viewer’s New Functionalities Access Patients’ Imaging Record in One Zero-Download Application

New functionalities and features to an enterprise imaging viewer will offer a patient-centric view accessible on a single application-based viewer, supporting greater collaboration, clinical depth, a more informed diagnosis, and a true longitudinal patient image record. A full-fidelity view enables physicians and care teams to retrieve original, full-quality renditions of stored images.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium) will present its work-in-progress, updated the enterprise imaging XERO viewer at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2014), held in Chicago (IL, USA), from November 30 to December 4, 2014.

The new functionalities and features to be shown at RSNA 2014 include: a full fidelity view, which will enable physicians and care teams to retrieve original quality renditions of stored digital radiography (DX), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound (US) images from any connected browser-based viewer. Users will be able to simply switch between the web fidelity view offering reference-quality images and full-fidelity view that provides diagnosis-quality images. A patient-centric timeline view will give clinicians access to a chronologic, single unified view of the patient imaging record.

Electrocardiography (ECG) viewing will allow ECGs to be viewed in various layouts, such as 2 x 6 + 1. Users will be able to change the waveform size and amplitude, and take waveform measurements on all ECGs. Low and high pass filter functionality will be available, and current image data will be able to be compared with prior ECGs.

A chat and share application will support communication and collaboration along the patient care continuum. Login via a wide range of instant messaging services will offer immediate online communication chat via text, video, or voice. Users will be able to send notifications, ask for a second opinion, and share additional information, while innovative visualization tools and measurements will be available for both contacts.

Multimedia upload for mobile and web capture: will extend the import functionality to include not only Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images, but also non-DICOM objects from any source, directly into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR). Built-in safety features will help reduce misidentification of patients or images.

Calibrated measurements are for images that do not contain any preexisting DICOM-based measurement calibration. The user will be able to create a reference measurement for the image; all subsequent measurements using markup tools will then be calibrated against this reference measurement.

A federated network will bring together patient images from multiple sources across the entire healthcare system in one consolidated view. Radiologists will be able to retrieve images from other picture archiving and communication system (PACS) directly into their own PACS, with a single mouse click.

Full-fidelity diagnostic capabilities are pending US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.

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